1 a small container which has a measured amount of a medicine inside and which dissolves when you swallow it:
The medicine can be taken in tablet or capsule form. * Take two 30ml capsules a day.
2 a small plastic container with a substance or liquid inside
3 the part of a spacecraft in which people travel and that often separates from the main rocket:
the cramped conditions of a space capsule
4 (technical) a shell or container for seeds or eggs in some plants and animals
seealsoTIMECAPSULE
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for capsule is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is capsule a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, capsule is tagged as noun.
Does capsule appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — capsule appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
