Associations to the word «Capsule»

Wiktionary

CAPSULE, noun. (physiology) A membranous envelope.
CAPSULE, noun. (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
CAPSULE, noun. (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
CAPSULE, noun. A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
CAPSULE, noun. (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
CAPSULE, noun. (dialectal) (UK) (Suffolk) A weasel.
CAPSULE, noun. (attributively) (figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
CAPSULE, noun. (winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
CAPSULE, noun. (chemistry) (dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
CAPSULE, noun. A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
CAPSULE, noun. A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
CAPSULE HOTEL, noun. A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
CAPSULE REVIEW, noun. (chiefly journalism) A short critique  — ranging anywhere from a single sentence to a few hundred words in length — of a specified artistic work.

Dictionary definition

CAPSULE, noun. A small container.
CAPSULE, noun. A pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside.
CAPSULE, noun. A dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses.
CAPSULE, noun. A shortened version of a written work.
CAPSULE, noun. A structure that encloses a body part.
CAPSULE, noun. A spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space.
CAPSULE, noun. A pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
CAPSULE, verb. Enclose in a capsule.
CAPSULE, verb. Put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats