Health / B2

PIL/pɪl/

A pill is a small round piece of medicine to be swallowed; the pill often means oral contraception: a sleeping pill; on the pill. Tablet is a close twin; capsule has a shell. Name the pill in the trial, not a brand from an advert. Mix-up: pile is a heap; peel. Do not write pill for a whole course of treatment without the dose.

Meaning

A small round piece of medicine to be swallowed; the pill often means contraception.

Examples

• “Name the pill in the trial, not a brand from an advert.”
• “Access to the pill featured in the health-rights source, which is the contraception sense.”

Good to know

a sleeping / vitamin pill; on the pill. Close: tablet. Trap: pile. Biology, PSHE, and news. A swallowed dose, not a heap.

Near in meaning

tablet

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