pill

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
2. (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
3. (definite, informal, uncountable) 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 fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.
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. (intransitive) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
2. To form into the shape of a pill.
3. (transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
4. (Internet, transitive) To persuade or convince someone of something.
5. (UK, dated, slang, transitive) 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.

Concetti

pillola

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compressa

pastiglia

pasticca

cachet

discoide

pillola anticoncezionale

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

pilule

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píldora

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Pille

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comprimé

pil

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χάπι

pílula

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Tablette

comprimido

comprimido

hap

💊

píndola

💊

pastilla

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/pɪl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: pille

Affine olandese: pil

Ereditato da inglese medio: *pill

Ereditato da inglese antico: pyll

Affine inglese antico: pull

Affine scozzese: poll

Affine islandese: 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.