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UK
/kˈæpsjuːl/
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[ US /ˈkæpsəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈkæpsəɫ/ ]
VERB
- enclose in a capsule
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put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
capsulize the news
NOUN
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- a small container
- a shortened version of a written work
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
How To Use capsule In A Sentence
- A recent issue of Gastroenterology reports on animal studies describing a swallowable capsule that can transmit video images as it travels through the small intestine.
- Prof. Hamilton, of Aberdeen, claims that the corpus callosum is not a commissure, but the decussation of cortical fibers on their way down to enter the internal and external capsules of the opposite side. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
- The fruit is a small oblong capsule with two valves containing many small seeds.
- Suspended from a giant parachute, the bronze-colored capsule carrying the taikonaut, coined from the Chinese word for space, touched down at around 6.23 am after a 21-hour journey that took him around the world 14 times.
- The dose of vaccine is 0.5 cc (25 ug of polysaccharide capsule material from each of the 23 serotypes) and may be given intramuscularly or subcutaneously.
- One example - out of many - is his discussion of the mezuzah, a small capsule attached to the doorposts of Jewish homes containing a piece of vellum with verses from the Book of Deuteronomy.
- Nor does she disappoint with her capsule review of La Broche, the Michelin two-star in Madrid.
- The medial and lateral portions of the tendon of the Quadriceps pass down on either side of the patella, to be inserted into the upper extremity of the tibia on either side of the tuberosity; these portions merge into the capsule, as stated above, forming the medial and lateral patellar retinacula. III. Syndesmology. 7b. The Knee-joint
- I could not have picked a more exposed position on the pitch to take the capsule. Times, Sunday Times
- A spark occurred and the inside of the capsule turned into a blowtorch.