bottleneck

Meaning of bottleneck

noun
  1. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
  2. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
  3. (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
    It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
verb
  1. To slow by causing a bottleneck.
    The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
  2. To form a bottleneck.
    The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.

Information about bottleneck

  • The plural form of bottleneck is: bottlenecks.
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Hyphenation of bottleneck

bot-tle-neck

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • bottleneck is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

bottleneck synonyms

Meaning constriction:

constriction, chokepoint

Translation of bottleneck

Words that rhyme with bottleneck

neck, Teaneck, redneck, Duveneck, fiddleneck, gooseneck, littleneck, snakeneck, turtleneck, writheneck, stiffneck, longneck, ringneck, roughneck, stretchneck, blackneck, breakneck, crookneck, thickneck, bullneck, cowlneck, rollneck, swanneck, Doneck, Mamaroneck, dorneck, halterneck, leatherneck, limberneck, rubberneck, sneck, unsneck, crewneck, wryneck

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