bottleneck
pronunciation
How to pronounce bottleneck in British English:
UK [ˈbɒtlnek]
How to pronounce bottleneck in American English:
US [ˈbɑtlnek]
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- Noun:
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
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- Verb:
- slow down or impede by creating an obstruction
- become narrow, like a bottleneck
Word Origin
- bottleneck (n.)
- also bottle-neck, "narrow entrance, spot where traffic becomes congested," 1896; from bottle (n.) + neck (n.). Meaning "anything which obstructs a flow" is from 1922; the verb in this sense is from 1928.
Example
- 1. And that bottleneck will make chinese-type growth rates elusive .
- 2. Such bottleneck for me is random browsing .
- 3. The bottleneck in my case was the performance of my computer .
- 4. The other big bottleneck is human capital .
- 5. This requires at least three months and often represents a bottleneck for manufacturers .