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PELLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A solid missile discharged from a firearm
Example:
the shot buzzed past his ear
Synonyms:
pellet; shot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pellet" is a kind of...):
missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pellet"):
BB; BB shot (a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun)
bird shot; buckshot; duck shot (small lead shot for shotgun shells)
grape; grapeshot (a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot)
ball; musket ball (a solid projectile that is shot by a musket)
Holonyms ("pellet" is a part of...):
canister; canister shot; case shot (a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small sphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("pellet" is a kind of...):
ball; globe; orb (an object with a spherical shape)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb pellet
Context examples:
Small containers or pellets of a solid drug implanted in the body to achieve sustained release of the drug.
(Drug Implant, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
By doing so, these plastic pellets become sponges for dirt, acting as vectors of the organic compounds, spreading pollution of marine wildlife, and reducing their growth, reproduction and mobility.
(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)
A solid composed of sucrose, lactose or other polysaccharides formed into small globular pellets impregnated with active and/or inert ingredient(s).
(Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
The work was inspired by Araujo's desire to study natural feeding behavior, as opposed to animals passively munching on food pellets.
(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)
A solid composed of sucrose, lactose, or other polysaccharides formed into small globular pellets of uniform size which can be classified as homeopathic.
(Homeopathic Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
At the range of a couple of hundred yards we emptied our magazines, firing bullet after bullet into the beasts, but with no more effect than if we were pelting them with pellets of paper.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It comes in the form of loose tobacco leaves, pellets or bits (leaf tobacco rolled into small pellets), plugs (leaf tobacco pressed and held together with some type of sweetener), or twists (leaf tobacco rolled into rope-like strands and twisted).
(Chewing tobacco, NCI Dictionary)
All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill—all this was Buck’s, only it was infinitely more intimate.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He intoned a long whining rhyme in the French tongue, and at the end of every line he raised a thick cord, all jagged with pellets of lead, and smote his companion across the shoulders until the blood spurted again.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This small pellet is, I presume, the black, doughy mass you spoke of.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
