The meaning of Pill

Pill – definition

noun
A small round mass of solid medicine for swallowing whole.
Usage examples:
An overdose of sleeping pills
Synonims:
Tablet Capsule Caplet Pellet Lozenge Pastille Jujube Bolus Troche Pilule
noun
A tedious or unpleasant person.
noun
(in some sports) a humorous term for a ball.

verb
(of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface.
Usage examples:
Synthetics can pill but otherwise wear fairly well

Pill translation into English

Pill: translate from English into Chinese

丸, 药丸, 药片, 丸剂, 丸药, 将 ... 做成药丸, 避孕丸药

Pill: translate from English into Dutch

Pil, Bittere pil, Pluizen, Bal, Kogel, Pillen geven, Akelige kerel, Beroven, Plunderen, Deballoteren, Met kogels beschieten, Pillen ingeven, Kanonskogel, Tennisbal

Pill: translate from English into French

Pilule, Comprimé

Pill: translate from English into German

Pille, Tablette, Fusseln

Pill: translate from English into Hindi

गोली, गोली देना, चिकित्सक, औषधि देना, गुटिका, डाका डालना, लूटना

Pill: translate from English into Italian

Pillola, Pasticca

Pill: translate from English into Korean

알약, 환, 경구 피임약, 의사, 싫은 것, 싫은 사람, 공, 야구 따위의 공, 골프 따위의 공, 환약으로 만들다, 약탈하다

Pill: translate from English into Russian

Таблетка, Пилюля, Шарик, Противозачаточная таблетка, Бильярд, Грабить, Мародерствовать, Ядро, Пуля, Мяч, Баллотировочный шар, Неприятный человек, Давать пилюли, Забаллотировать, Обирать, Обставить

Pill: translate from English into Spanish

Píldora, Gragea, Pelota, Bala, Lata

Word origin

1950s: from the noun pill denoting a small ball of fluff, extended sense of pill1.

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Pill synonims

bolus

noun
A small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing.
Usage examples:
Mucin holds the particles of food together in a ball or bolus

All meanings and translations of Bolus

caplet

noun
A coated oral medicinal tablet.
Usage examples:
Do not store acetaminophen tablets (including caplets and gelcaps), capsules, or granules in the ba…

noun
A brand name for a type of pill (= a small solid piece of medicine that you swallow) that is long and thin, with rounded ends

All meanings and translations of Caplet

capsule

ˈkæp.sjuːl

noun
A small case or container, especially a round or cylindrical one.
Usage examples:
He showed us the cylinder of the gun filled with six plastic capsules

noun
A small container

noun
A measured amount of medicine in a very small, rounded, soft container which is swallowed
Usage examples:
The apollo 11 capsule

All meanings and translations of Capsule

jujube

noun
The edible berrylike fruit of a eurasian plant, formerly taken as a cure for coughs.
Usage examples:
Sweet muscadine grapes, blackberries, apples, jujubes and a host of other fruits will be available …

noun
A small round fruit that grows on a tree, also called a jujube

All meanings and translations of Jujube

lozenge

noun
A rhombus or diamond shape.
Usage examples:
Lozenge patterns

noun
A small, flavored candy, often containing medicine, which dissolves when sucked in the mouth

All meanings and translations of Lozenge

pastille

noun
A small sweet or lozenge.
Usage examples:
Fruit pastilles

noun
A type of small round sweet that can be sucked or chewed
Usage examples:
A throat pastille (= for people with a cough or a sore throat)

All meanings and translations of Pastille

pellet

noun
A small, rounded, compressed mass of a substance.
Usage examples:
Fish food pellets

verb
Form (a substance) into pellets.
Usage examples:
The business made its name pelleting sugar beet seed

noun
A small, hard, ball-shaped or tube-shaped piece of any substance
Usage examples:
Shotgun pellets, plastic pellets

All meanings and translations of Pellet

pilule

noun
A small pill.
Usage examples:
They are normally taken in the form of pillules, but are also available as a powder, granules, tinc…

All meanings and translations of Pilule

tablet

noun
A flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used especially for an inscription.
Usage examples:
At the corner of the apse is a memorial tablet

noun
A small, flat, compressed cake of some substance

noun
A small, round, solid object made of medicine; a pill
Usage examples:
Aspirin tablets, the archaeologists found six tablets recording business transactions from over thr…

All meanings and translations of Tablet

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