pellet

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
2. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
3. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
4. A roundel sable (black circular spot).
5. One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

Verb

1. To form into pellets.
2. To strike with pellets.

Conceitos

pelota

grão de chumbo

sedimento

projétil

bolinha

formar comprimidos

bala

chumheiro

bola

Sinônimos

shot

bullet

pill

💊

granule

grain

ball

small shot

marble

globule

shell

🐚

small ball

parvule

pelletize

pillet

tablet

capsule

jack

lapidate

leap

lump

orb

particle

projectile

slug

small grain

sphere

spherulite

spring

tabloid

troche

wafer

cumularsharolith

crystal plate

bead

bean

bolus

bomb

💣

bowl

bulb

💡

cannon ball

clot

conglobation

conglomeration

crumb

curd

globe

glomerule

glomerulus

Traduções

balletje

pallina

perdigón

kogeltje

propje

Kügelchen

pallino

pelotilla

pallottola

Pellet

perdigó

pellet

pilule

💊

hagelkorrel

σφαιρίδιο

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpɛl.ɪt/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: pelote

In summary

Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.