Definitions for pill
pɪlpill

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pillnoun

   something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size

2. pill, lozenge, tablet, tabnoun

   a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

3. pillnoun

   a unpleasant or tiresome person

4. pillnoun

   something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured

   "his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take"

5. pill, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, anovulatory drug, anovulantnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pillnoun

   Medicine made into a small ball or mass.

   Etymology: pilula, Lat. pillule, French.

   In the taking of a potion or pills, the head and the neck shake. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills. William Shakespeare.

   The oraculous doctor’s mystick bills,
   Certain hard words made into pills. Richard Crashaw.

2. To Pillverb

   Etymology: piller, Fr.

   1. To rob; to plunder.

   So did he good to none, to many ill;
   So did he all the kingdom rob and pill. Hubberd.

   The commons hath he pill’d with grievous taxes,
   And lost their hearts. William Shakespeare, Richard II.

   Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,
   And pill by law. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

   You wrangling pirates, that fall out
   In sharing that which you have pill’d from me. William Shakespeare.

   Suppose pilling and polling officers, as busy upon the people, as those flies were upon the fox. Roger L'Estrange.

   He who pill’d his province ’scapes the laws,
   And keeps his money, though he lost his cause. Dryden.

   2. For peel;to strip off the bark.

   Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and pilled white streaks in them. Genesis xxx. 37.

3. To Pillverb

   To be stript away; to come off in flakes or scoriæ. This should be peel; which see.

   The whiteness pilled away from his eyes. Tob. xi. 13.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pill

   A pill is a small, round or oval-shaped, solid dosage form of medication meant to be swallowed, containing one or more active ingredients, sometimes in combination with other substances, used to prevent, treat, or diagnose a disease or health condition. It is one of the most common forms of pharmaceutical drug delivery.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pillnoun

   the peel or skin

2. Pillverb

   to be peeled; to peel off in flakes

3. Pillverb

   to deprive of hair; to make bald

4. Pillverb

   to peel; to make by removing the skin

5. Pill

   to rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder

6. Pillnoun

   a medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole

7. Pillnoun

   figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured

8. Etymology: [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. Piles.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pill

   Pill is a village in North Somerset. It is situated on the southern bank of the Avon. Pill is adjacent to the village of Easton-in-Gordano. Opposite Pill is the Bristol suburb of Shirehampton. "Pill", in Anglo-Saxon, means a "creek" or "inlet" off a river or channel or a small harbour, often tidal and occasionally used as a dock.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pill

   pil, n. a little ball of medicine: anything nauseous which must be accepted: (slang) a doctor: a disagreeable person.—v.t. (slang) to blackball.—n. Pill′-box, a box for holding pills: a kind of one-horse carriage. [Fr. pilule—L. pilula, dim. of pĭla, a ball.]

2. Pill

   pil, v.t. and v.i. to strip, peel: to deprive of hair.—n. (Spens.) skin. [Peel.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pill

   (See PIL.) A term on the western coast for a draining rivulet, as well as the creek into which it falls.

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1. pill

   Song lyrics by pill -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by pill on the Lyrics.com website.

2. PILL

   What does PILL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PILL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PILL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pill is ranked #68122 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pill surname appeared 289 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pill.
   
   92.7% or 268 total occurrences were White.
   2.7% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.4% or 7 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Burden
   • Contraceptive
   • Dose
   • Thing
   • Unpleasant Person

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'pill' in Nouns Frequency: #2742

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce pill?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say pill in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pill in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pill in a Sentence

1. Michael Jones:

   Jones said he had tried medication before, but preferred to treat his sleeping issues without drugs. I liked the idea of acupuncture because it’s been around for thousands of years, principally in Asia and it’s not a pill … so, it’s a good natural kind of thing that’s got real science behind it actually so that’s why I was interested in it.

2. Rick Williams:

   This whole concept of using less and paying more is a very hard pill to swallow, we have plenty of water.

3. Lala Kent:

   It just was like, wow, there's not one piece of my five years with this one person that has been truthful and honest. The only thing truth I feel that existed in my relationship was me and my daughter Ocean. That is where the truth ended. That is a hard pill to f --- ing swallow.

4. Megan Ranney:

   This pill is terrific and, as an ER doctor, I can not wait to have this as another tool in my toolbox to give to patients who are sick with Covid-19, but better than taking a pill is not getting sick in the first place which means getting vaccinated.

5. Dima Qato:

   Texas and other states will claim this is similar to an abortion pill.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pill
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=pill
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pill
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=pill
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=pill
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=pill
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pill