[{"word":"bottleneck","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To slow by causing a bottleneck.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning."},{"definition":"To form a bottleneck.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bottleneck"]}]