different between krill vs prill

English

Etymology

From Dutch kriel (“puny/tiny”), applied to fish fry (in the sense of hatchlings); sometimes interpreted as "whale food".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

krill (plural krill or krills)

1. any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

Derived terms

• Antarctic krill
• northern krill

Translations

References

• Wikipedia article on krill
• https://web.archive.org/web/20021218082407/http://www.ecoscope.com/krill/

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kril?]
• Rhymes: -il?

Noun

krill (plural krillek)

1. krill

Declension

Synonyms

• világítórák

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 2005) kril

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, related to dialectal kril (krusning); compare with Icelandic kríli.

Noun

krill m (definite singular krillen, indefinite plural kriller, definite plural krillene)

1. krill, several species of crustacean plankton of the order Euphausiacea.
2. (dialectal) synonym of småsild (sprats)

See also

• kril (Nynorsk)

References

• “krill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krill_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Portuguese

Noun

krill m (plural krills or krill)

1. krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)

Swedish

Etymology

From Norwegian krill.

Noun

krill n

1. krill

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

A variant of purl, 17th century.

Verb

prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

1. to flow, spurt
   • 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London

     the Thames, prillingfrom her naked breast

Noun

prill (plural prills)

1. a rill, a small stream
   • 1603, John Davies, Microcosmos

     Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand

2. (obsolete) a spinning top

Etymology 2

Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (“sheep-droppings”) as a likely loan from English.

Noun

prill (plural prills)

1. a pellet, a granule, a small bead
   • 2000, R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, page 275

     Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.

   • 2007, Stan A. David, Trends in Welding Research: Proceedings of the 7Th International, page 661

     The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills, i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.

2. rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
3. (mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
4. The button of metal from an assay.

Translations

Verb

prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

1. to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling

Synonyms

• pelletize

Derived terms

• prilling
• prill sulfur

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

prill (plural prills)

1. The brill, a kind of flatfish.

Etymology 4

Verb

prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

1. (intransitive, Britain, dialect) To grow sour.
2. (intransitive, Britain, dialect) To become tipsy.

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin Apr?lis. Compare popular Romanian prier (“April”), Aromanian aprir, prilj.

Noun

prill m (definite singular prilli)

1. April