Meaning of pill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
   broadly
2. The peel or skin.
   obsolete
3. An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. Pill can occur in the name of such an inlet.
   UK, regional
4. Pill, tablet.
5. A village in Pill and Easton-in-Gordano parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5275).
6. A municipality of Tyrol, Austria.
7. A surname.
8. 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).
   broadly
9. Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
   definite, informal, uncountable
10. Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
11. A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
    slang
12. A comical or entertaining person.
    slang
13. A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.
14. A baseball.
    slang
15. A bullet (projectile).
    slang
16. A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

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Examples

“Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.”

“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.”

“"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."”

“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.”

“One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.”

“"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.”

“Some be covered with crusts or hard pills, as the locust”

“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 […]”

“Portishead, lying west-north-west of Bristol, on the Severn, had a small port from medieval times on its pill, or inlet, and began to develop as a seaside resort early in the nineteenth century, when it was served by steam packets from Bristol.”

“For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and their passengers rested and refreshed themselves in thriving New Milford, where flunkeys bowed before the best hotel. Those are the days which Neyland people, especially the older ones, recall with pride.”

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