capsule
pronunciation
How to pronounce capsule in British English:
UK [ˈkæpsjuːl]
How to pronounce capsule in American English:
US [ˈkæpsl]
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- Noun:
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a shortened version of a written work
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
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- Verb:
- enclose in a capsule
- put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
Word Origin
- capsule
- capsule: see case
- capsule (n.)
- 1650s, from French capsule "a membranous sac" (16c.), from Latin capsula "small box or chest," diminutive of capsa "box, case, chest" (see case (n.2)). Medicinal sense is 1875; shortened form cap is from 1942. Sense in space capsule is first recorded 1954. As an adjective from 1938. Related: Capsular.
Example
- 1. The capsule inn provides more a capsule , than a room .
- 2. Probiotics can also be taken as supplements in capsule or liquid form .
- 3. He was in a tiny capsule called friendship 7 .
- 4. In this depiction of the rod-shaped e. coli , two flagella trail from one end while hairlike pili surround a capsule full of tangled nucleoids .
- 5. If you do not like the taste , take it in capsule form .