capsule

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæps(ə)l/
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæpsjuːl/, /ˈkæpʃuːl/

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capsule (plural capsules)

1. (physiology) A membranous envelope.
2. (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.
3. (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, pages 4-5:

     The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.

4. (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
5. (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
6. (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
7. (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
8. (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
   • 1962, John F. Kennedy, We choose to go to the moon:

     If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

9. (winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
10. (chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
11. A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
12. A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
13. One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.

    Synonym: pod

capsule (third-person singular simple present capsules, present participle capsuling, simple past and past participle capsuled)

1. (transitive) To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
2. (transitive) To encapsulate or summarize.

• laces up, scale up, scaleup, specula, upscale

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula. Doublet of kapsel.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑpˈsy.lə/

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• Hyphenation: cap‧su‧le
• Rhymes: -ylə

capsule f (plural capsules, diminutive capsuletje n)

1. (medicine, pharmacy) capsule (encapsulation containing drugs or supplements)
2. cover over the cork and opening of a bottle

Borrowed from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (whence caisse).

• IPA^(key): /kap.syl/

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capsule f (plural capsules)

1. capsule
2. bottle cap
3. cap or primer for a gun
4. (Quebec) video or audio presentation

• capsulaire
• capsule temporelle
• décapsuler
• encapsuler

• → Romanian: capsulă
• → Turkish: kapsül

• “capsule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• spécula

capsule f

1. plural of capsula

• lupesca, scapule, specula

capsule

1. inflection of capsular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative