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Bottleneck   /bˈɑtəlnˌɛk/   Listen
noun
Bottleneck  n.  
1.
A location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded.
2.
A point at which road traffic slows due to congestion or narrowing of the roadway.
3.
An impasse.
4.
A narrowing.
Synonyms: constriction.


verb
bottleneck  v. t.  Same as obstruct; as, his laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system.


bottleneck  v. i.  To become narrower as one approaches a point; said of roads; as, right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks.





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"Bottleneck" Quotes from Famous Books



... striking spectacle with which I conclude this chapter. This time, the dish is a magnificent Aesculapius' snake, a yard and a half long and as thick as a wide bottleneck. Because of its size, which exceeds the dimensions of my pan, I roll the reptile in a double spiral, or in two storeys. When the copious joint is in full process of dissolution, the pan becomes a puddle wherein wallow, in countless numbers, the grubs of ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... around the end of the bar, the bartender stood over Kregg, holding the jagged-edged bottleneck in ...
— The Jupiter Weapon • Charles Louis Fontenay
... dampened investment. The US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been in effect since April 2006 and has expanded export opportunities for many agricultural and manufactured goods. Energy shortages fueled by high oil prices, however, are a serious bottleneck to growth. ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... about the Stretts or the Navy. It was the First Team. It was the bottleneck that was slowing everything down to a crawl ... but they knew that. They knew it better than anyone else could, and felt it more keenly. Especially Karns, the team chief. He had been driving himself like a dog, ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... the finger and, after a few questions, made out the spot she was indicating. It was a broad peninsula, about two miles distant. Three of its sides rose sheer out of a lake of air, the bottom of which was invisible; its fourth was a bottleneck, joining it to the mainland. It was overgrown with bright vegetation, distinct in the brilliant atmosphere. A single tall tree, shooting up in the middle of the peninsula, dwarfed everything else; it was wide and ...
— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay


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