pill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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government
graphical-user-interface
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natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
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textiles
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: pills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: p1ll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pilled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: p1ll
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.
gloss: A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
pos: noun
tags: definite
informal
uncountable
examples: Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.
I'm tearing down your brooder house / 'Cause now I've got the pill
Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.
gloss: Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
pos: noun
examples: "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."
gloss: A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.
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.
gloss: A comical or entertaining person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.
pos: noun
examples: One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.
gloss: A baseball.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "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.
Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.
gloss: A bullet (projectile).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This sweater is already pilled: it fuzzed after the very first wash.
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.
gloss: To form into the shape of a pill.
pos: verb
examples: Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
gloss: To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.
Pilling the cat is such a nightmare.
gloss: To take recreational drugs in pill form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nev offered it to Layla who replied, "Thanks, but at the moment I'm pilling and it will bring me down."
gloss: To persuade or convince someone of something.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: To blackball (a potential club member).
pos: verb
tags: UK
dated
slang
transitive
examples: “I pilled him because he is a liar,” said Thackeray. “He calls himself 'ill' when he isn't.”
Synonyms: tablet
Derived words: abortion pill
antipill
birth pill
bitter pill
bitter pill to swallow
black-pill
black pill
blue pill
blue-pill
boner pill
bread pill
chicken pill
chill pill
difficult pill to swallow
dinner pill
dogpill
forget to take one's pills this morning
gild the pill
go pill
happy pill
hard pill
hard pill to swallow
horse pill
little blue pill
love pill
Matthew's pill
minipill
morning-after pill
nanopill
no-go pill
on the pill
orange pill
party pill
peaceful pill
peace pill
pep pill
perpetual pill
pill beetle
pill board
pill bottle
pill-box
pillbox
pillbug
pill bug
pill driver
pill gun
pillhead
pill in the pocket
pillmaker
pillmaking
pill mill
pill millipede
pillmonger
pill pocket
pill-popper
pill popper
pill press
pill pusher
pill reminder
pill rolling
pill tile
pill to swallow
pill up
pillworm
pillwort
pilly
pinkpill
poison pill
polypill
pop pills
postpill
power pill
prepill
purple pill
radio pill
radiopill
red pill
silly pill
sleeping pill
smart pill
sugarcoat a bitter pill
sugarcoat the pill
sugar the pill
sugar pill
superpill
swallow a bitter pill
sweeten the pill
take a pill
take the red pill
tough pill to swallow
Ward's pill
water pill
white pill
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: pil
lang: Albanian
word: pilulë
lang: Arabic
word: حَبَّة دَوَاء
roman: ḥabbat dawāʔ
lang: Arabic
word: قُرْص
roman: qurṣ
lang: Arabic
word: حَبّ
roman: ḥabb
lang: Arabic
word: حَبَّة
roman: ḥabba
lang: Armenian
word: հաբ
roman: hab
lang: Armenian
word: դեղահատ
roman: deġahat
lang: Armenian
word: դեղահաբ
roman: deġahab
lang: Assamese
word: বৰি
roman: bori
lang: Assamese
word: টেবলেট
roman: tebolet
lang: Assamese
word: গুলী
roman: guli
lang: Azerbaijani
word: həb
lang: Belarusian
word: табле́тка
roman: tabljétka
lang: Belarusian
word: пілю́ля
roman: piljúlja
lang: Bengali
word: পিল
roman: pil
lang: Bengali
word: বটিকা
roman: boṭika
lang: Bulgarian
word: табле́тка
roman: tablétka
lang: Bulgarian
word: ха́пче
roman: hápče
lang: Bulgarian
word: хап
roman: hap
lang: Burmese
word: ဆေးလုံး
roman: hce:lum:
lang: Catalan
word: píndola
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 藥丸 /药丸
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 藥片 /药片
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 藥餅 /药饼
roman: joek⁶ beng²
lang: Chinese
word: 藥丸 /药丸
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese
word: 藥片 /药片
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese
word: 藥餅 /药饼
roman: io̍h-piáⁿ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 藥丸 /药丸
roman: yàowán
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 藥片 /药片
roman: yàopiàn
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: ap
lang: Czech
word: pilulka
lang: Czech
word: tableta
lang: Danish
word: pille
lang: Danish
word: tablet
lang: Dhivehi
word: ގުޅަ
roman: guḷa
lang: Dutch
word: pil
lang: Esperanto
word: pilolo
lang: Estonian
word: tablett
lang: Estonian
word: pill
lang: Faroese
word: bolli
lang: Faroese
word: tablett
lang: Finnish
word: pilleri
lang: Finnish
word: tabletti
lang: French
word: pilule
lang: French
word: comprimé
lang: Georgian
word: აბი
roman: abi
lang: Georgian
word: ტაბლეტი
roman: ṭableṭi
lang: German
word: Tablette
lang: German
word: Pille
lang: Greek
word: χάπι
roman: chápi
lang: Greek
word: δισκίο
roman: diskío
lang: Gujarati
word: ગોળી
roman: goḷī
lang: Hebrew
word: כַּדּוּר
roman: kadúr
lang: Hebrew
word: גְּלוּלָה
roman: glulá
lang: Hindi
word: गोली
roman: golī
lang: Hindi
word: गुटिका
roman: guṭikā
lang: Hindi
word: टैबलेट
roman: ṭaibleṭ
lang: Hungarian
word: tabletta
lang: Hungarian
word: pirula
lang: Hungarian
word: pilula
lang: Icelandic
word: pilla
lang: Ido
word: pilulo
lang: Indonesian
word: pil
lang: Indonesian
word: tablet
lang: Italian
word: pillola
lang: Italian
word: compressa
lang: Italian
word: pasticca
lang: Italian
word: pastiglia
lang: Japanese
word: 錠剤
roman: jōzai
lang: Japanese
word: 丸薬
roman: gan'yaku
lang: Japanese
word: ピル
roman: piru
lang: Kazakh
word: пилюля
roman: pilülä
lang: Kazakh
word: дәрі
roman: därı
lang: Kazakh
word: таблетка
roman: tabletka
lang: Khmer
word: គុលិកា
roman: kulikaa
lang: Khmer
word: ថ្នាំលេប
roman: thnam leip
lang: Korean
word: 알약
roman: aryak
lang: Korean
word: 알
roman: al
lang: Korean
word: 정제
roman: jeongje
lang: Korean
word: 환약
roman: hwanyak
lang: Central Kurdish
word: حەب
roman: ḧeb
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: heb
lang: Kyrgyz
word: таблетка
roman: tabletka
lang: Kyrgyz
word: пилюля
roman: pilyulya
lang: Lao
word: ກ້ອນ
roman: kǭn
lang: Lao
word: ຢາກ້ອນ
roman: yā kǭn
lang: Lao
word: ຢາເມັດ
roman: yā met
lang: Lao
word: ເມັດ
roman: met
lang: Lao
word: ລູກກອນ
roman: lūk kǭn
lang: Latin
word: pilula
lang: Latvian
word: tablete
lang: Latvian
word: pilula
lang: Lithuanian
word: piliulė
lang: Lithuanian
word: tabletė
lang: Macedonian
word: апче
roman: apče
lang: Macedonian
word: табле́та
roman: tabléta
lang: Macedonian
word: пилула
roman: pilula
lang: Malay
word: pil
lang: Malay
word: tablet
lang: Māori
word: pire
lang: Māori
word: pirepire
lang: Marathi
word: गोळी
roman: goḷī
lang: Mongolian
word: эм
roman: em
lang: Mongolian
word: үрэл
roman: ürel
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠡᠮ᠎ᠡ
roman: em-e
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠦᠷᠢᠯ
roman: üril
lang: Nahuatl
word: motolotlanoquiloni
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pille
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: pille
lang: Ojibwe
word: bebiikominagak
lang: Ojibwe
word: mashkikiins
lang: Oromo
word: kinniinii
lang: Ossetian
word: таблеткӕ
roman: tabletkæ
lang: Pashto
word: ګولۍ
roman: golᶕy
lang: Pashto
word: تابلېت
roman: tāblet
lang: Dari
word: گُولِی
roman: gūlī
lang: Iranian Persian
word: قُرْص
roman: ġors
lang: Iranian Persian
word: حَب
roman: hab
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Pell
lang: Polish
word: pigułka
lang: Polish
word: tabletka
lang: Polish
word: pastylka
lang: Portuguese
word: comprimido
lang: Portuguese
word: pílula
lang: Romanian
word: pilulă
lang: Romanian
word: tabletă
lang: Romanian
word: comprimat
lang: Russian
word: табле́тка
roman: tablétka
lang: Russian
word: пилю́ля
roman: piljúlja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пѝлула
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: таблѐта
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pìlula
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tablèta
lang: Sicilian
word: pìnnula
lang: Sicilian
word: tabblettu
lang: Slovak
word: pilulka
lang: Slovak
word: tableta
lang: Slovene
word: pilula
lang: Slovene
word: tableta
lang: Spanish
word: píldora
lang: Spanish
word: pastilla
lang: Spanish
word: comprimido
lang: Spanish
word: tableta
lang: Swahili
word: kidonge
lang: Swahili
word: tembe
lang: Swedish
word: piller
lang: Swedish
word: tablett
lang: Tajik
word: ҳаб
roman: hab
lang: Tajik
word: қурс
roman: qurs
lang: Tamil
word: மாத்திரை
roman: māttirai
lang: Tarifit
word: reknina
lang: Telugu
word: మాత్ర
roman: mātra
lang: Thai
word: ยาเม็ด
roman: yaa-mét
lang: Thai
word: เม็ด
roman: mét
lang: Tocharian B
word: ṣpakīye
lang: Tocharian B
word: ṣpel
lang: Turkish
word: hap
lang: Turkish
word: tablet
lang: Turkish
word: komprime
lang: Turkmen
word: tabletka
lang: Ukrainian
word: пігу́лка
roman: pihúlka
lang: Ukrainian
word: пілю́ля
roman: piljúlja
lang: Ukrainian
word: табле́тка
roman: tablétka
lang: Urdu
word: گولی
roman: golī
lang: Urdu
word: ٹَیبْلیٹ
roman: ṭaibleṭ
lang: Uyghur
word: تابلىتكا
roman: tablitka
lang: Uzbek
word: tabletka
lang: Uzbek
word: hapdori
lang: Uzbek
word: dori
lang: Vietnamese
word: viên
lang: Vietnamese
word: viên thuốc
lang: Yiddish
word: פּיל
roman: pil