pill
US: /ˈpɪɫ/
UK: /pˈɪl/
UK: /pˈɪl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
pill /pil/
- danh từ
- viên thuốc
- (nghĩa bóng) điều cay đắng, điều tủi nhục, điều sỉ nhục
- a bitter pill: điều cay đắng, điều tủi nhục
- to swallow the pill: ngậm bồ hòn làm ngọt
- (từ lóng);(đùa cợt) quả bóng đá, quả bóng quần vợt; đạn đại bác
- (số nhiều) trò chơi bi-a
- (the pill) thuốc chống thụ thai
- a pill to cure an earthquake
- biện pháp nửa vời không đem lại kết quả gì; cho voi uống thuốc gió
- to gild the pill
- (xem) gild
- ngoại động từ
- bỏ phiếu đen, bỏ phiếu chống lại (để khai trừ ai)
- đánh bại
- ngoại động từ
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) cướp bóc
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [C] a small flat round piece of medicine that you swallow without chewing it: a vitamin pill + Take three pills daily after meals. + (informal) pill-popping (= the act of taking too many pills or using illegal drugs)
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2 (the pill or the Pill) [sing.] a pill that some women take to prevent them becoming pregnant: the contraceptive pill + to be / go on the pill
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3 [C] (AmE) an annoying person
Idioms: sugar / sweeten the pill to do sth that makes an unpleasant situation seem less unpleasant
Synonym: SUGAR-COAT
more at BITTER adj.
+ verb [V] (of a piece of clothing, especially one made of wool) to become covered in very small balls of FIBRE
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 tablet, capsule, bolus, pellet, pilule; medicine, medication, medicament, drug, pharmaceutical, remedy, cure; cough drop, pastille, lozenge, troche:
Doctor, can't you give me some kind of pill for this headache?
2 nuisance, bore, pest, Colloq pain (in the neck), crank, drag:
I don't understand what she sees in Leonard - he's such a pill.
Collocation dictionary
1 small round flat piece of medicine
ADJ.
diet, sleeping, vitamin
QUANT.
bottle
VERB + PILL
pop, swallow, take | give sb, prescribe (sb)
The doctor prescribed her some pills to help her sleep.
2 the pill: to avoid becoming pregnant
ADJ.
contraceptive
VERB + PILL
be on, go on, use | prescribe (sb), put sb on
Her doctor put her on the pill at 16.
| come off, stop
Concise English dictionary
pills|pilled|pillingpɪl
noun
+something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
+a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
+a unpleasant or tiresome person
+something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
+a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
