pellet
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See also: pèl·let
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɛl.ɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpel.ɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɛlɪt
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: pèl·let
Translations
[edit]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
[edit]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
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| 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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| 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 |
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Further reading
[edit]- “pellet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Finnish
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German
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[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]pellet
Latin
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Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]pellet m (plural pellets)
- pellet (projectile)
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pellet c
- (usually in the plural) a pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often feed or wood pellets)
Declension
[edit]Declension of pellet
See also
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