Meaning

12 senses
  1. (broadly)A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

    Tablette, Pille

    табле́ткаtablétka, пилю́ляpiljúlja

    пігу́лкаpihúlka, пілю́ляpiljúlja, табле́ткаtablétka

  2. A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

    (broadly)Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).

  3. (definite, informal, uncountable)Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

    Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

    She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.

    Pille

    противозача́точная табле́ткаprotivozačátočnaja tablétka

    a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception

  4. Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

    something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured

  5. (slang)A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

    a unpleasant or tiresome person

  6. (slang)A comical or entertaining person.

  7. A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.

    Fussel

    ка́тышекkátyšek

  8. (slang)A baseball.

  9. (slang)A bullet (projectile).

    пу́ляpúlja, масли́наmaslína

  10. A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

  11. (UK, regional)An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. Pill can occur in the name of such an inlet.

  12. (obsolete)The peel or skin.

Examples

346 sentences
  1. How many pills did you take?

    Скільки ти випив таблеток?

    ruСколько таблеток ты приняла?

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  2. Tom flushed the pills down the toilet.

    Том злив таблетки в унітаз.

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  3. I swallowed the pill.

    Я проковтнув таблетку.

    ruЯ проглотил таблетку.

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  4. Tom took three sleeping pills.

    Том прийняв три таблетки снодійного.

    ruТом принял три таблетки снотворного.

    deTom nahm drei Schlaftabletten.

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  5. Tom hasn't taken his pills.

    Том не випив свої таблетки.

    ruТом не принял свои таблетки.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
small object for swallowing:
Русский
By meaning 4
small object for swallowing:
contraceptive pill:
ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing:
bullet:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small object for swallowing:
ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing:

Origin

From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middl

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.

From Middle English pillen, pilen, from Old English pilian (“to peel”), from Latin pilō (“depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of peel.

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 *bl̥nos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Old English pull (“pool, creek”), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet”), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle”). More at pool.

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Forms

plural: pills
Singularpill

uncountable

Synonyms

14 synonyms
bullet:capA1
small object for swallowing:tabletB1
Close in meaning

Word family

68 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • take your pills
  • sleeping pills
  • swallowed the pill

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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