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bottleneck
[bot-l-nek]
noun
a narrow entrance or passageway.
a place or stage in a process at which progress is impeded.
Also called slide guitar.a method of guitar playing that produces a gliding sound by pressing a metal bar or glass tube against the strings.
verb (used with object)
to hamper or confine by or as if by a bottleneck.
verb (used without object)
to become hindered by or as if by a bottleneck.
bottleneck
/ ˈɒəˌɛ /
noun
a narrow stretch of road or a junction at which traffic is or may be held up
the hold up
something that holds up progress, esp of a manufacturing process
music
the broken-off neck of a bottle placed over a finger and used to produce a buzzing effect in a style of guitar-playing originally part of the American blues tradition
the style of guitar playing using a bottleneck
verb
(tr) to be or cause an obstruction in
bottleneck
An abrupt and severe reduction in the number of individuals during the history of a species, resulting in the loss of diversity from the gene pool. The generations following the bottleneck are more genetically homogenous than would otherwise be expected. Bottlenecks often occur in consequence of a catastrophic event.
bottleneck
The point at which an industry or economic system has to slow its growth because one or more of its components cannot keep up with demand.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bottleneck1
Example Sentences
In the survey, the abundance agenda was described as: “The big problem is ‘bottlenecks’ that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges.”
In assessing those bottlenecks, Lift to Rise identified a need for stronger advocacy, both at the local level and in the policy sphere.
There are no major bottlenecks of migrants at the border, and the migrant shelters in Tijuana are not currently overflowing.
This, it says, made bottlenecks worse in A&E and for ambulances trying to hand over patients and that delays for those handovers were worse than in previous winters.
He started looking at patterns of communication and organization, and spotting bottlenecks in the same way that you’d spot bottlenecks in the production process.
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