pill

Signification (English)

Noun

1. A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
2. A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
3. (informal) Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
4. Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
5. (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
6. (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
7. A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
8. (slang) A baseball.
9. (slang) A bullet (projectile).
10. A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

Verb

1. Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
2. To form into the shape of a pill.
3. To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
4. To persuade or convince someone of something.
5. (slang) To blackball (a potential club member).

Verb

1. (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
3. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
4. (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Concepts

pilule

💊

comprimé

pastille

tablette

cachet

🦭

boulocher

💊

Bones

losange

pilule contraceptive

ardoise

Synonyms

tablet

lozenge

medicine

💊

pellet

globule

capsule

drug

💊

bolus

tab

troche

oral contraceptive

medication

playboy

contraceptive pill

ball

birth control pill

dose

anovulant

anovulatory drug

oral contraceptive pill

tabloid

bore

tablets

terminal plate

Bones

fuss-budget

pilule

birth-control pill

contraceptives

small lump

pilula

antidote

end ptece

bead

bellyacher

blackball

bullet

captivate

capture

carry off

enslave

footy

grouch

kvetch

loon

medicament

orb

pastil

pea

pharmaceutic

physician

pills

plunder

scarlet

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɪl/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: pille

Cognate with néerlandais: pil

Inherited from moyen anglais: *pill

Inherited from ancien anglais: pyll

Cognate with ancien anglais: pull

Cognate with écossais: poll

Cognate with islandais: pollur

In summary

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.