American English pronunciation

How to pronounce capsule

IPA transcription: ['kæpsəl]

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Noun

  • a small container

  • a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside

  • a shortened version of a written work

  • a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses

  • a structure that encloses a body part

  • 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

Verb

  • enclose in a capsule

  • put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume

    “capsulize the news”

Usage examples

  • The recovery team reached the capsule in minutes.
  • Where's Mrs. Luke's box of capsules?
  • They are then placed in the titanium time capsules.
  • You put something wrong in those capsules.
  • You put something wrong in those capsules.
  • You put something wrong in those capsules.
  • It features an egg-shaped crew capsule nicknamed the "blast bucket".
  • The constituents are put into separate gelatin capsules.
  • They are sold both in machine capsules and blind boxes.
  • Take these capsules over to Mrs. David's house.