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pill
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?l/, [p???]
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
- 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.
Noun
pill (plural pills)
- A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- 1864, Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary [1]
- Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.
- 1864, Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary [1]
- (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
- 1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:
- Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.
- 1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:
- Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]:
- "It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]:
- (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
- 2000, Susan Isaacs, Shining Through [2]
- Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation.
- 2000, Susan Isaacs, Shining Through [2]
- (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
- (informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.
- 1999, Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True [3]
- One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.
- 1999, Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True [3]
- (archaic, baseball slang) A baseball.
- 1931, Canadian National Magazine
- "Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.
- 2002, John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound [4]
- Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.
- 1931, Canadian National Magazine
- (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
- (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
Synonyms
- (small object for swallowing): tablet
- (bullet): cap
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)
- (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
- 1997, Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color [5]
- During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.
- 1997, Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color [5]
- To form into the shape of a pill.
- Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
- (transitive) To medicate with pills.
- She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin pil? (“depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of peel.
Verb
pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)
- (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
- To peel; to make by removing the skin.
- [Jacob] pilled white streaks […] in the rods.
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
- (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
Noun
pill (plural pills)
- (obsolete) The peel or skin.
- Some be covered with crusts or hard pills, as the locust
- 1682, A perfect school of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth
- To make Sallet of Lemon pill, or green Citron. You must have your Lemon Pill preserved very green, Rasp it into a Dish, and raise it up lightly with a Fork […]
Etymology 3
From Middle English *pill, *pyll, from Old English pyll (“a pool, pill”), from Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool, stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *bl?nos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Old English pull (“pool, creek”), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet”), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle”). More at pool.
Noun
pill (plural pills)
- (now Britain regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
Albanian
Etymology
A form of pidh from Proto-Albanian *pizda, from Proto-Indo-European *písdeh? (“pudenda”). Cognate to Lithuanian pyzdà (“pudenda”) and Russian ????? (pizda, “pudenda”)
Noun
pill
- vagina
- cunt (vulgar)
Synonyms
- pidh
Estonian
Etymology 1
Noun
pill (genitive pilli, partitive pilli)
- (music) instrument
Declension
Synonyms
- muusikariist
Etymology 2
Noun
pill (genitive pilli, partitive pilli)
- (medicine) pill
Declension
Synonyms
- tablett
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
pill m
- genitive singular of peall
Mutation
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lozenge
English
Alternative forms
- losenge (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), from Old French *lose (“flag-stone”), from Vulgar Latin *lausa.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?z?nd?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?l?z?nd?/
Noun
lozenge (plural lozenges)
- (shapes, heraldry) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
- Synonyms: (informal) diamond, rhomb, (most common in mathematics) rhombus
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
- Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vani8ty Fair, Chapter 9:
- How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
- The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
- A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
- Synonyms: pastille, throat pastille, troche
Derived terms
- lozenge coach
Translations
Verb
lozenge (third-person singular simple present lozenges, present participle lozenging, simple past and past participle lozenged)
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.
- (transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.
Further reading
- lozenge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Noun
lozenge
- Alternative form of losenge
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