January 31, 2025

A bottle is a container with a neck and mouth for holding liquids, usually made of glass or plastic. Bottles are used to store and transport liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink and chemicals. They come in many shapes, sizes and designs and can be made from a wide range of materials. In many countries bottles are recycled, helping conserve raw material resources and reducing the mounting piles of waste at landfill sites.

Bottles have been used throughout history, dating back to prehistoric times when clay or asphaltum sealed woven containers were used for holding liquids. Using the ingenuity of humans, infinite ways to form and manipulate glass with bottles were discovered and developed over millennia of human history.

The bottle is a vital tool for mothers who choose to supplement their breast milk supply with baby formula. A good quality bottle, properly capped, can be used to feed babies from birth to weaning and beyond. Bottles are available in a variety of styles and functions to suit the needs of individual parents and babies, from easy to clean with venting systems that allow for proper flow, to caps designed to make opening and closing easier, to straw lids that allow children to drink with ease.

Some of the more common bottle features include the push-pull lid that provides for quick access and prevents leaks, the button-push lid that allows for easy one-handed operation, and the straw lid that can be used to easily add a straw to the beverage for added convenience. Many bottle designs feature a venting system to ensure that the liquid is not too hot or cold, and some have a detachable nipple that mimics a mother’s soft nipple to help prevent nipple confusion when breastfeeding and bottle feeding are both practiced at the same time.

Embossing – Raised lettering, patterns or graphics on the surface of a bottle that are formed by incising on the inside mold surfaces (White 1978). Historically, embossing was done by replacing the “plate” of the bottle mold with a differently engraved plate. This allowed for a wide range of embossing patterns for the same bottle design, making it affordable to produce a custom-embossed bottle for every customer (Jones & Sullivan 1989).

Mold Seam(s) – The raised lines on the shoulder, neck, finish, and base of a bottle that were caused where the edges of different mold sections parts came together. Also referred to as joint-marks (Scholes 1952; Tooley 1953).

The bore – The opening in the top of a bottle’s finish from which the contents can be accessed. Sometimes called the throat, orifice, or opening. See the Bottle Finishes page for much more information on finishes and finish parts. Also referred to by some as the collar or lip.

Work is a major part of many people’s lives, but it can also be demanding, especially when it comes to balancing work and personal life. Studies show that demand from work is a contributing factor to stress, anxiety and even depression. It can also lead to an unhealthy work culture where employees feel overwhelmed or overworked. This is why it’s so important to consider redefining work and making it more manageable for all employees.

Redefining work is a significant shift that can affect every aspect of an organization. It requires identifying and developing intrinsic human capabilities that can create value for the company, customers and workers. It can involve cultivating and drawing on the abilities of curiosity, imagination, creativity, intuition, empathy, and social intelligence. It can include reimagining the workplace, focusing on solving unseen challenges and opportunities for frontline workers, and shifting the balance of the workload between routine tasks and innovation and problem-solving activities.

It can also involve reimagining the role of technology, incorporating it as a tool for collaboration and productivity rather than replacing humans. For example, when a robot can do the same repetitive task that an employee does but with greater accuracy and speed, it should be a tool for helping that worker achieve more complex and creative goals, not as a replacement for the job. It will require a shift in management and leadership practices and the evolution of processes, tools and technologies to support this vision for work.

The word “work” has several meanings: work may refer to any purposeful activity, whether it’s physical or mental. Labor means any strenuous and fatiguing effort, including work that can be done by a person or by a machine. Travail suggests difficult and stressful work, while drudgery implies stultifying labor that wears down the mind and body. Work may also refer to paid employment or any career.

In physics, the concept of work is related to energy. The energy of an object is equal to the product of its force and the distance over which it is displaced. In a conservative (no-fields), rigid (no internal degrees of freedom) body, work is the change in kinetic energy divided by the net acceleration. In other words, it is equal to Delta E k / V.

In other words, the amount of work required to change an object from rest to motion is the net force times the velocity squared (or acceleration). This is the work that must be done on a free body that has neither momentum nor angular velocity. The amount of work that is done on a moving object depends on the mass of the object and the distance over which it moves.