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Found 3 hits - Term: capsule, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
capsule \cap"sule\ ka^p"s=ul, n. l. capsula a little box
   or chest, fr. capsa chest, case, fr. capere to take, contain:
   cf. f. capsule.
   1. bot. a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several
      parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as,
      the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.
      1913 webster

   2. chem.
      a a small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples
          of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
      b a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of
          porcelain.
          1913 webster

   3. med. a small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous
      envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to
      be swallowed.
      1913 webster

   4. anat. a membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an
      organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye.
      also, a capsulelike organ.
      1913 webster

   5. a metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle.
      1913 webster

   6. a small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap,
      cartridge, etc.
      1913 webster

   atrabiliary capsule. see under atrabiliary.

   glisson's capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the
      liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the
      latter in their course through the organ.

   suprarenal capsule, a ductless gland secreting epinephrine,
      norepinephrine, and steroid hormones, on the upper end of
      each kidney. it is also called the adrenal gland,
      glandula suprarenalis, suprarenal gland, epinephros,
      atrabiliary capsule, and adrenal capsule.
      1913 webster +pjc
see also:
atrabiliary capsule atrabiliary glisson's capsule suprarenal capsule adrenal gland glandula suprarenalis 
suprarenal gland epinephros atrabiliary capsule adrenal capsule 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
capsule
     n 1: a small container
     2: a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container
        with medicine inside
     3: a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing
        structure of e.g. mosses
     4: a shortened version of a written work syn: condensation,
        abridgement, abridgment
     5: a structure that encloses a body part
     6: a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human
        life in outer space syn: space capsule
     7: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected
        in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by
        parachute syn: ejection seat, ejector seat
     v 1: enclose in a capsule syn: capsulate, capsulize, capsulise
     2: put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize
        the news" syn: encapsulate, capsulize, capsulise
see also:
condensation abridgement abridgment space capsule ejection seat ejector seat 
capsulate capsulize capsulise encapsulate 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
180 moby thesaurus words for "capsule":
   earth insertion, lem, lm, abbreviated, abbreviation, abbreviature,
   abrege, abridge, abridged, abridgment, abstract, abstracted,
   amnion, apogee, attitude-control rocket, bag, ballistic capsule,
   bark, barrel, basket, bladder, bleb, blister, bobbed, boll, bolus,
   botany, bottle, box, box up, bran, brief, burn, burr, calyx, can,
   canned, capsulize, capsulized, carton, case, cask, cell, chaff,
   clipped, cod, compend, compressed, condensation, condense,
   condensed, condensed version, conspectus, corn shuck, cornhusk,
   crate, cropped, curtailed, cut short, cyst, deep-space ship,
   digest, digested, docked, docking, docking maneuver, draft, elided,
   elliptic, encase, encyst, epitome, ferry rocket, fistula, follicle,
   fuel ship, gallbladder, hamper, head, hull, husk, injection,
   insertion, jacket, jar, legume, legumen, loculus, lozenge,
   lunar excursion module, lunar module, manned rocket, marsupium,
   module, moon ship, mowed, mown, multistage rocket, nipped,
   nutshell, orbit, outline, overview, pack, package, palea, pandect,
   parcel, parking orbit, pease cod, peel, pericarp, perigee, pill,
   pocket, pod, pollard, polled, pot, potted, precis, pruned, reaped,
   reentry, review, rind, rocket, rubric, sac, saccule, sacculus,
   saccus, sack, scrotum, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase,
   shaved, sheared, shell, short-cut, shorten, shortened,
   shortened version, shuck, shuttle rocket, silique, sinus, skeleton,
   sketch, sketch out, skin, snub, snubbed, soft landing, sound,
   space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spacecraft, spaceship,
   stomach, summarize, survey, syllabus, synopsis, synopsize, tablet,
   tank, thumbnail sketch, tin, topical outline, trimmed, troche,
   udder, vasculum, ventricle, vesica, vesicle





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Capsule, definition of term: Capsule
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Time Capsule >> T Words
Time Capsule, definition of term: Time Capsule
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