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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
/ 藞产蓲迟蓹濒藢苍蓻办 /
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 .
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bottleneck1
Example Sentences
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鈥檇 spot bottlenecks in the production process.
Congressional members warn that bottlenecked courts will be hurt as Trump administration fire immigration judges, demand that Atty.
A wrong-way crash on the 10 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles led to one fatality and a bottleneck for holiday travelers.
Rachel Bradburne, of the National Association of Funeral Directors, said the "piecemeal" nature of the system was "frustrating" and the current system was "full of bottlenecks and delays".
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