Pill
noun
A small piece of solid medicine that you swallow.
She takes a pill for her heart condition every day.
Often appears as...
- take a pill
- swallow a pill
noun
Something difficult that you need to accept, especially a difficult fact or situation.
Losing the game was a bitter pill for the team to swallow.
Often appears as...
- bitter pill to swallow
- sugar the pill
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Idiomatic
noun
In UK, a small round sweet or candy.
Would you like a mint pill?
Often appears as...
- mint pill
- candy pill
verb
When a fabric forms small balls of fluff on its surface.
My black sweater always pills after I've worn it a few times.
Often appears as...
- sweater pills
- fabric pills
noun
A small piece of solid medicine that you swallow.
She takes a pill for her heart condition every day.
Often appears as...
- take a pill
- swallow a pill
noun
Something difficult that you need to accept, especially a difficult fact or situation.
Losing the game was a bitter pill for the team to swallow.
Often appears as...
- bitter pill to swallow
- sugar the pill
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
In UK, a small round sweet or candy.
Would you like a mint pill?
Often appears as...
- mint pill
- candy pill
verb
When a fabric forms small balls of fluff on its surface.
My black sweater always pills after I've worn it a few times.
Often appears as...
- sweater pills
- fabric pills
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Prescription Needed
In many places, you can't get pills without a doctor's prescription.
She couldn't buy the pill without a prescription.
Pro Tip 2/3Dosage Precision
Pills offer precise dosage, ensuring you take the exact amount needed.
His doctor prescribed one pill daily for precise dosage.
Pro Tip 3/3Easy to Consume
Pills are preferable when an easy and quick consumption method is needed.
She opts for a pill because it's easy to swallow quickly.
Pro Tip 1/3Prescription Needed
In many places, you can't get pills without a doctor's prescription.
She couldn't buy the pill without a prescription.
Pro Tip 2/3Dosage Precision
Pills offer precise dosage, ensuring you take the exact amount needed.
His doctor prescribed one pill daily for precise dosage.
Pro Tip 3/3Easy to Consume
Pills are preferable when an easy and quick consumption method is needed.
She opts for a pill because it's easy to swallow quickly.
Pro Tip 1/3Prescription Needed
In many places, you can't get pills without a doctor's prescription.
She couldn't buy the pill without a prescription.
Pro Tip 2/3Dosage Precision
Pills offer precise dosage, ensuring you take the exact amount needed.
His doctor prescribed one pill daily for precise dosage.
Pro Tip 3/3Easy to Consume
Pills are preferable when an easy and quick consumption method is needed.
She opts for a pill because it's easy to swallow quickly.
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Depicting new images of...
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What causes insomnia? -...
In addition to these practices, some doctors prescribe medication to aid sleep, but there aren’t reliable medications that help in all cases. And over-the-counter sleeping pills can be highly addictive, leading to withdrawal that worsens symptoms. But before seeking any treatment,
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How do drugs affect the...
Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives, but most of us don't know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we physically feel, think, and even behave?
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Fish Pharm PIPE National...
results of the amount of medications that are showing up in these fish we thought we do with that and I said well it's easy we'll just make a fish out of pills all the green and yellow ones are the antidepressants Prozac and the tiny white ones that make up the dorsal fins
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Militant atheism PIPE...
contains or remains a stumbling block far out of proportion to what it actually means, and a stumbling block to people who otherwise might be happy to out themselves. So, what other words might be used to smooth the path, oil the wheels, sugar the pill?
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How does caffeine keep...
Most of this caffeine is consumed in coffee and tea, but it's also ingested in some sodas, chocolate, caffeine pills, and even beverages labeled decaf. Caffeine helps us feel alert, focused, happy, and energetic, even if we haven't had enough sleep.
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The agony of opioid...
I can assure you these medications can make life worth living. we can still fight the epidemic while judiciously prescribing opioids to people who really need them by requiring that doctors properly manage the pills that they do prescribe.
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"To This Day" ... for...
He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs,
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Bart Knols: Cheese, dogs...
So cheese, dogs and a pill to kill mosquitoes. That's the kind of out-of-the-box science that I love doing for the betterment of mankind, but especially for her, so that she can grow up in a world without malaria. Thank you.
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Octopus Playtime PIPE...
in one of the most telling experiments the researchers put a pill bottle in the tank with just enough air in it to float
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Depicting new images of...
never get paid by the moon if we did build them revenues will come from advertising global satellite subscriptions sponsored programming and the sale of content international broadcasters a private equity company has been set up in Mauritius and a poison pill has been put into the system
Video examples
What causes insomnia? -...
In addition to these practices, some doctors prescribe medication to aid sleep, but there aren’t reliable medications that help in all cases. And over-the-counter sleeping pills can be highly addictive, leading to withdrawal that worsens symptoms. But before seeking any treatment,
Video examples
How do drugs affect the...
Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives, but most of us don't know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we physically feel, think, and even behave?
Video examples
Fish Pharm PIPE National...
results of the amount of medications that are showing up in these fish we thought we do with that and I said well it's easy we'll just make a fish out of pills all the green and yellow ones are the antidepressants Prozac and the tiny white ones that make up the dorsal fins
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Militant atheism PIPE...
contains or remains a stumbling block far out of proportion to what it actually means, and a stumbling block to people who otherwise might be happy to out themselves. So, what other words might be used to smooth the path, oil the wheels, sugar the pill?
Video examples
How does caffeine keep...
Most of this caffeine is consumed in coffee and tea, but it's also ingested in some sodas, chocolate, caffeine pills, and even beverages labeled decaf. Caffeine helps us feel alert, focused, happy, and energetic, even if we haven't had enough sleep.
Video examples
The agony of opioid...
I can assure you these medications can make life worth living. we can still fight the epidemic while judiciously prescribing opioids to people who really need them by requiring that doctors properly manage the pills that they do prescribe.
Video examples
"To This Day" ... for...
He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs,
Video examples
Bart Knols: Cheese, dogs...
So cheese, dogs and a pill to kill mosquitoes. That's the kind of out-of-the-box science that I love doing for the betterment of mankind, but especially for her, so that she can grow up in a world without malaria. Thank you.
Video examples
Octopus Playtime PIPE...
in one of the most telling experiments the researchers put a pill bottle in the tank with just enough air in it to float
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Vogue Williams
Irish Model
I worried because I'd been on the pill for so long and the doctor said to me, 'If you want to have three or four children the chances are you probably won't get pregnant for another year so you should probably start trying now.' We started trying and it happened quite quickly.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
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Matthew Perry
Actor
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
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Karl Lagerfeld
German Designer
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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David Perlmutter
American Scientist
People are getting to this place of understanding that their lifestyle choices actually do matter a whole lot as opposed to this notion that you live your life, come what may, and hope for a pill.
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Les Dawson
English Comedian
I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.
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Joel Robuchon
French Chef
When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.
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Debra Granik
American Director
You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
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Yvonne Orji
Nigerian Actress
Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?
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Ron White
American Comedian
There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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Vogue Williams
Irish Model
I worried because I'd been on the pill for so long and the doctor said to me, 'If you want to have three or four children the chances are you probably won't get pregnant for another year so you should probably start trying now.' We started trying and it happened quite quickly.
Quote examples
Taylor Swift
American Singer
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Quote examples
Matthew Perry
Actor
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
Quote examples
Karl Lagerfeld
German Designer
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
Quote examples
David Perlmutter
American Scientist
People are getting to this place of understanding that their lifestyle choices actually do matter a whole lot as opposed to this notion that you live your life, come what may, and hope for a pill.
Quote examples
Les Dawson
English Comedian
I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.
Quote examples
Joel Robuchon
French Chef
When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.
Quote examples
Debra Granik
American Director
You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
Quote examples
Yvonne Orji
Nigerian Actress
Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?
Quote examples
Ron White
American Comedian
There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
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