Pill

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

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

2. isim 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. isim 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.”

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

   “"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. isim A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

   “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.”

6. isim A comical or entertaining person.
7. isim A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.

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

8. isim A baseball.

   “"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.”

9. isim A bullet (projectile).
10. isim A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
11. fiil Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

    “This sweater is already pilled: it fuzzed after the very first wash.”

12. fiil To form into the shape of a pill.

    “Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.”

13. fiil To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.

    “She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.”

14. fiil To take recreational drugs in pill form.

    “Nev offered it to Layla who replied, "Thanks, but at the moment I'm pilling and it will bring me down."”

15. fiil To persuade or convince someone of something.
16. fiil To blackball (a potential club member).

    ““I pilled him because he is a liar,” said Thackeray. “He calls himself 'ill' when he isn't.””

17. fiil To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
18. fiil To peel; to make by removing the skin.

    “[Jacob] pilled white streaks[…]in the rods.”

19. fiil To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
20. fiil To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

    “The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines, That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe, And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke, Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.”

21. isim The peel or skin.

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

22. isim An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. Pill can occur in the name of such an inlet.

    “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.”

23. özel isim A village in Pill and Easton-in-Gordano parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5275).
24. özel isim A municipality of Tyrol, Austria.
25. özel isim A surname.