Definition of pill in English English dictionary
- A baseball
Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.
- To pillage; to despoil or impoverish
- the pill: A combination of estrogen and progestin in pill form, which functions as a contraceptive
Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.
- To medicate with pills
She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.
- An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay
- To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark
- A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person
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.
- To form into the shape of a pill
Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
- Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber
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.
- A small inlet or creek of a tidal river, especially one with a landing stage or wharf
- A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing
One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.
- A small portion of a drug or drugs to be taken orally, usually of roughly cylindrical shape, often coated to prolong dissolution or ease swallowing
Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.
- A comical or entertaining person
- a unpleasant or tiresome person
- {v} to rob, to peal
- {n} a small ball of physic
- Ball
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes
- cement plug; a portion of cement placed at some point in the wellbore to seal it
- something that resembles a pill in shape or size
- The peel or skin
- Over time, the surface of a cotton-blend fabric with a lower thread count can develop these tiny, frayed balls of fabric
- Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow without chewing. Why do I have to take all these pills? sleeping pills. = tablet
- If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news, you can say that it was a bitter pill or a bitter pill to swallow. You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow
- See Peel, to plunder
- a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
- something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured; "his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take"
- (aka: "golfball") another term for a golf ball Example: "She can really hit that pill when she gets going "
- a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
- A tangled ball of fibers that appears on the surface of a fabric, as a result of wear or continued friction or rubbing on the surface of the fabric
- A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole
- If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable. He sweetened the pill by increasing wages, although by slightly less than he raised prices. To subject to extortion. if a piece of clothing pills, especially a sweater, it forms little balls on the surface of the cloth after it has been worn or washed
- A baseball term meaning the ball
- {i} tablet, small piece of medication that is intended to be swallowed; oral contraceptive; (Slang) dull person
- To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel
- the pill: A pill which functions as a contraceptive
- a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet something that resembles a pill in shape or size a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured; "his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take"
- To peel; to make by removing the skin
- Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured
- To deprive of hair; to make bald
- The ball The object of your frustration Maybe instead of trying to hit the pill, you should take a pill
- If a woman is on the pill, she takes a special pill that prevents her from becoming pregnant. She had been on the pill for three years
- {f} make into small balls; dose with pills; blackball (Slang)
- pill bug
- Any of very many terrestrial crustaceans, of the family Armadillidiidae, including the woodlice, that can roll themselves up into a protective ball
- pill bugs
- plural form of pill bug
- pill in the pocket
- A pill carried in a pocket of one's clothing such as pants or a coat
- pill in the pocket
- A medication, usually prescribed by a physician, which the patient is to carry with him or her, and which is to be used only under certain conditions
- pill bottle
- a small bottle for holding pills
- pill bug
- small terrestrial isopod with a convex segmented body that can roll up into a ball
- pill bug
- Any species of terrestrial crustacean in the genera Armadillidium and Armadillo (both in the order Isopoda), native to Europe and introduced worldwide. Pill bugs (sometimes called wood lice) resemble tiny armadillos in appearance and behaviour; they have a gray, oval body covered with platelike armour and, when disturbed, roll into a ball. They are about 0.75 in. (19 mm) long. Pill bugs live in dry, sunny places, in dry leaf litter, and on forest edges. See also sow bug
- pill head
- a consumer of amphetamine pills
- abortion pill
- A drug, such as mifepristone (Mifegyne), used to terminate a pregnancy in its earliest stage
- bitter pill
- Alternative form of bitter pill to swallow
By the final whistle at Murrayfield last night, the Australians were choking back the bitter pill of disappointment and defeat.
- bitter pill to swallow
- Something unpleasant that must be accepted or endured
Giving them amnesty would be a bitter pill for the U.S. to swallow.
- chill pill
- : An imaginary medicine taken when excessively anxious or upset about a trivial matter
Take a chill pill, and calm down.
- happy pill
- An antidepressant
- hard pill to swallow
- Something that is hard to accept
That my own son could have done something so horrible is a hard pill to swallow.
- morning-after pill
- a contraceptive in the form of a pill taken the morning after sexual intercourse
- on the pill
- using oral contraceptives
Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
- pilling
- Balls of fibre formed on clothing through usage, often called pill or pills
- pills
- Third person singular simple present of to pill
- pills
- plural form of pill
- poison pill
- Any strategy designed to produce negative results for an entity carrying out a takeover
- power pill
- A tablet of the drug ecstasy
- silly pill
- A hypothetical pill that makes those who take it silly
You're all wound up today! Who gave you the silly pill?.
- sleeping pill
- A pill or tablet having a soporific effect
- take a chill pill
- to relax or calm down
My boss needs to take a chill pill and quit shouting at us.
- take the red pill
- To understand the world in its previously unknown reality
As much as we, our generation, start to believe this fictionalized new version of reality we become complicit.... The only way out is to take the Red pill and see what things really look like.
- water pill
- A diuretic in pill form
- sugar coat the pill
- (deyim) Make something bad seem less unpleasant
Plans to improve public services are a way of sugar coating the pill of increased taxation.
- sugar the pill
- (deyim) Make something bad seem less unpleasant
Plans to improve public services are a way of sugaring the pill of increased taxation.
- sweeten the pill
- (deyim) Make something bad seem less unpleasant
Plans to improve public services are a way of sweetening the pill of increased taxation.
- abortion pill
- an abortion-inducing drug (trade name Mifepristone) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo
- biphasic pill
- A drug, such as an oral contraceptive, in which the dosage level changes during the number of days it is taken
- bitter pill
- sharp and unpleasant tasting tablet of medicine; harsh lesson that is learned
- bitter pill to swallow
- something difficult to accept or make peace with
- chill pill
- To calm down; relax
- coated pill
- tablet which has a covering (to make it easier to swallow, taste better, etc.)
- contraceptive pill
- pill taken to prevent pregnancy
- day after pill
- medication that a woman can take in order to prevent pregnancy after having unprotected sex
- fat pill
- {i} (Slang) donut, doughnut
- morning-after pill
- a large dose of estrogen taken orally within 24 to 72 hours after intercourse; prevents implantation of a fertilized ovum and so acts as a contraceptive; commonly used after rape or incest
- morning-after pill
- The morning-after pill is a pill that a woman can take some hours after having sex to prevent herself from becoming pregnant. a drug that a woman can take a few hours after having sex to prevent her from becoming pregnant
- pain pill
- analgesic: a medicine used to relieve pain
- pep pill
- A tablet or capsule containing a stimulant drug, especially an amphetamine. a pill containing a drug that gives you more energy or makes you feel happier for a short time
- pilled
- Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald
- pilled
- very rare: past tense or participle of pill
- pilling
- Formation of small tangles of fibers when the surface of a material is rubbed against itself or another surface Looks like small fabric balls on the fabric surface The tendency to pill is not a desirable quality in a fabric
- pilling
- present participle of pill
- pilling
- Tiny fuzz balls on a fabric surface caused by wear
- pilling
- A condition, often caused by heavy use, in which fibers from different tufts of carpet become entangled in one another forming hard fiber masses or "pills " These pills can be cut off with scissors
- pilling
- the formation of fibre entanglements on the surface of the fabric
- pilling
- - A condition of the carpet face (which may occur from heavy traffic) in which fibers from different tufts become entangled with one another, forming hard masses of fibers and tangled tufts Pills may be cut off with scissors
- pilling
- Shedding of small tufts of fiber See also matting
- pilling
- A condition of the carpet face (which may occur from heavy traffic) in which fibers from different tufts become entangled with one another, forming hard masses of fibers and tangled tufts Pills may be cut off with scissors
- pilling
- The tendency of fibers to ball or roll up It is common in all fabrics which are knitted or woven from yarns which possess a hairy or wooly surface but is particularly pronounced in knitted fabric made from spun nylon or polyester yarn The loose ends, especially at the points where the fabric is exposed to rubbing, collect on the surface of the material and ball up into rather unsightly fluff
- pilling
- The tendency of fibers to work loose from a fabric surface and form balled or matted particles of fiber that remain attached to the surface of the fabric
- pills
- plural of pill
- poison pill
- a provision designed to damage the interests of a takeover bidder, e g handsome severance terms for departing managers, which is activated on completion of the bid
- poison pill
- a defense against a raider: taking action which makes the company less attractive
- poison pill
- One of the techniques used to fend off a hostile bid or unwanted takeover, which includes a large financial penalty that is written into the companys articles and is activated by an unwelcome takeover
- poison pill
- An action which will seriously hurt a company if it is acquired by another
- poison pill
- A tactic by a company targeted for takeover to make is stock less appealing to the acquiring company in the hope of blocking the takeover For example, the company might issue preferred stock that gives shareholders the right to redeem their shares at a premium after the takeover
- poison pill
- A right issued by a corporation as a preventative antitakeover measure It allows rightholders to purchase shares in either their company or in the combined target and bidder entity at a substantial discount, usually 50% This discount may make the takeover prohibitively expensive
- poison pill
- the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer
- poison pill
- A takeover defense tactic designed to make a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive For instance, a firm may issue a new series of preferred stock that gives shareholders the right to redeem shares at a premium price after a takeover Or a poison pill can allow all existing shareholders of the target company except the acquirers to buy additional shares at a bargain price Such measures raise the cost of acquisition and cause dilution, hopefully deterring a takeover bid BACK TO TOP
- poison pill
- an anti-takeover device, a hasty acquisition that makes the company unappealing
- poison pill
- A corporate provision to combat hostile takeovers When triggered, the poison pill allows shareholders to acquire additional shares at below market price, thereby increasing the number of shares outstanding and making the takeover prohibitively expensive Such plans are relatively new in corporate Canada and are the subject of some controversy regarding whom they are designed to protect
- poison pill
- A poison pill refers to what some companies do to reduce their value in order to prevent themselves being taken over by another company. A plan or tactic intended to make a hostile corporate takeover prohibitively expensive, as one in which a company's stockholders are offered shares of stock at a bargain price in the event that a single suitor acquires a high percentage of the stock. something in a company's financial or legal structure that is intended to make it difficult for another company to take control of it
- poison pill
- Any tactic by a company designed to avoid a hostile takeover by making the company less attractive Portfolio - A collection of financial assets belonging to an individual or organization Possible reserves - Valuable mineralization not sampled enough to accurately estimate its tonnage and grade, or even verify its existence Also called "inferred reserves " Preferred stock - Shares of a limited liability company that rank ahead of common shares, but after bonds, in distribution of earnings or in claim to the company's assets in the event of liquidation They pay a fixed dividend but normally do not have voting rights, as with common shares
- poison pill
- A condition or stipulation set up by the target company that forces the cost of a hostile acquisition to increase dramatically The aim is to make it too expensive for the raider to acquire the firm
- poison pill
- A Poison Pill is generally a right (e g the right to buy more shares) given to shareholders of a company so that if their company is the subject of a takeover attempt, those attempting the take-over may be faced with having to deal with such rights, making it more attractive to the shareholders and more onerous for the buyers Poison Pills are often used when one company tries to buy another in a hostile takeover attempt -i e one which is not welcomed by the company
- poison pill
- Financial device designed to make unfriendly takeover attempts unappealing, if not impossible For instance, a firm might issue a new series of preferred stock that gives shareholders the right to redeem it at a premium price after a takeover, a measure which would likely raise the cost of an acquisition and cause dilution
- poison pill tactics
- (Economics) tactic used by company owners against potential hostile controllers (such as giving the right to loans or preferred stock to current shareholders)
- sleeping pill
- A sleeping pill is a pill that you can take to help you sleep. A sedative or hypnotic drug, especially a barbiturate, in the form of a pill or capsule used to relieve insomnia. a pill which helps you to sleep
- sleeping pill
- a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)
- sugar the pill
- make something bad easier to accept, ease a bad situation
- sugared the pill
- made something bad easier to accept, eased a bad situation
- suicide pill
- a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect
- take a chill pill
- (Slang) relax
- tough pill to swallow
- medication that is hard to ingest; (Slang) situation or fact that is difficult to accept
- vitamin pill
- a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement