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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)

1. 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.

3. (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.

4. 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."

5. (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.

6. (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
7. (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.

8. (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.

9. (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
10. (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)

1. (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.

2. To form into the shape of a pill.

   Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.

3. (transitive) To medicate with pills.

   She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.

4. (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)

1. (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.

   • [Jacob] pilled white streaks […] in the rods.

3. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
4. (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Noun

pill (plural pills)

1. (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)

1. (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

1. vagina
2. cunt (vulgar)

Synonyms

• pidh

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

pill (genitive pilli, partitive pilli)

1. (music) instrument

Declension

Synonyms

• muusikariist

Etymology 2

Noun

pill (genitive pilli, partitive pilli)

1. (medicine) pill

Declension

Synonyms

• tablett

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

pill m

1. genitive singular of peall

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English stone, ston, stan, from Old English st?n, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (compare Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh?- (“to stiffen”) (compare Russian ?????? (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek ???? (stía, “pebble”), ????? (stéar, “tallow”), Persian ????? (sot?n, “pillar”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit ????????? (sty?yate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sto?n/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /st??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or stone) (see usage notes)

1. (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
2. A small piece of stone, a pebble.
3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
4. (Britain, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (?6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, &c) but now principally used for personal weight
   • 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.

5. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

6. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

7. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
8. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

9. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
10. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

11. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
12. (obsolete) A testicle of an animal.
13. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone.

Usage notes

All countable senses use the plural stones except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural stone.

Synonyms

• (substance): rock
• (small piece of stone): pebble
• (unit of mass): petra
• (of fruit): pip, pit
• (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
• (curling piece): rock

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ston
• ? Esperanto: ?tono

Translations

Verb

stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)

1. (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.

   She got stoned to death after they found her.

2. (transitive) To wall with stones.
3. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
4. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
5. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
6. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
7. (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Synonyms

• (pelt with stones): lapidate
• (do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek
• (do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out

Translations

Adjective

stone (not comparable)

1. Constructed of stone.

   stone walls

   Synonym: (archaic) stonen

2. Having the appearance of stone.

   stone pot

3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
4. (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.

   She is one stone fox.
5. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

   stone butch; stone femme

   Antonym: pillow princess

Translations

Adverb

stone (not comparable)

1. As a stone (used with following adjective).

   My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

2. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

   I went stone crazy after she left.

   I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.

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Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ston/

Adjective

stone (plural stones)

1. stoned (high on drugs)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ston, stan, stoon, stoone, stane, stoan

Etymology

From Old English st?n, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /st??n/
• IPA^(key): /st??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

stone (plural stones or stone or (Early ME, rare) stonen)

1. A stone, boulder, or pebble:
   1. A millstone or whetstone.
   2. A pebble used in a slingshot.
2. A solid mass resembling stone, especially:
   1. A piece of hail, a hailstone
   2. A kidney stone or gallstone
   3. A pit (the hard seed of a fruit)
   4. A jewel or precious crystal
   5. (colloquial) A testicle.
3. Stone as a material (especially in construction)
4. A stone structure or monument, especially a tomb or tombstone.
5. A stone (unit of mass)

Related terms

Descendants

• English: stone (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: stane
• Yola: sthoan

References

• “st?n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.