capsule
noun/ˈkæpsjuːl/
/ˈkæpsl/, /ˈkæpsuːl/
- a small container that has a measured amount of a medicine inside and that dissolves (= becomes part of a liquid) when you swallow it (= make it go down your throat into your stomach)
- The medicine can be taken in tablet or capsule form.
- Take two 30ml capsules a day.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- gelatin
- cyanide
- fish oil
- …
- swallow
- take
- contain something
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- a small plastic container with a substance or liquid inside
- To avoid capture, he swallowed a cyanide capsule.
- capsules containing a poisonous drug
- (also space capsule)the part of a spacecraft in which people travel and that often separates from the main rocket
- the cramped conditions of a space capsule
- (specialist) a shell or container for seeds or eggs in some plants and animals see also time capsule
Word Originlate Middle English (in the general sense ‘small container’): via French from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa related to capere ‘to hold’.
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