pellet
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See also: pèl·let
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɛl.ɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpel.ɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɛlɪt
Noun
pellet (plural pellets)
- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
- Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
- (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
- Synonym: ogress
- One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: pèl·let
Translations
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter
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A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns
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Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls
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Verb
pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)
- To form into pellets.
- Synonym: pelletize
- To strike with pellets.
See also
metals | main colours | less common colours | ||||||||
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tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
depiction | ||||||||||
roundel (in parentheses: semé): | bezant (bezanty) |
plate (platy) |
torteau (tortelly) |
hurt (hurty) |
pellet (pellety), ogress |
pomme |
golpe (golpy) |
orange (semé of oranges) |
guze (semé of guzes) | |
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: | (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) |
d'eau (of water) |
de sang (of blood) |
de larmes (of tears) |
de poix (of pitch) |
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) |
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special roundel | furs | additional, uncommon tinctures: | ||||||||
tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
depiction |
Further reading
- “pellet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Finnish
Noun
pellet
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
pellet
Latin
Verb
pellet
Spanish
Noun
pellet m (plural pellets)
- pellet (projectile)
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
pellet c
- (usually in the plural) a pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often feed or wood pellets)
Declension
Declension of pellet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pellet | pelleten | pellets, pelletar | pelletarna |
Genitive | pellets | pelletens | pellets, pelletars | pelletarnas |
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