Толковый словарь английского языка - capsule
Capsule
capsule
I. noun see: case Date: circa 1693 1. a membrane or sac enclosing a body part (as a knee joint or kidney), either of two layers of white matter in the cerebrum, a closed receptacle containing spores or seeds: as, a dry dehiscent usually many-seeded fruit composed of two or more carpels, the spore case of a moss, a shell usually of gelatin for packaging something (as a drug or vitamins), an often polysaccharide envelope surrounding a microorganism, an extremely brief condensation ; outline , survey , 6. a compact often sealed and detachable container or compartment, a small pressurized compartment or vehicle (as for space flight or emergency escape), II. transitive verb (~d; capsuling) Date: 1859 to equip with or enclose in a ~, to condense into or devise in a compact form, III. adjective Date: 1938 extremely brief, small and very compact
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n. 1 a small soluble case of gelatine enclosing a dose of medicine and swallowed with it. 2 a detachable compartment of a spacecraft or nose-cone of a rocket. 3 an enclosing membrane in the body. 4 a a dry fruit that releases its seeds when ripe. b the spore-producing part of mosses and liverworts. 5 Biol. an enveloping layer surrounding certain bacteria. 6 (attrib.) concise; highly condensed (a capsule history of jazz). Derivatives capsular adj. capsulate adj. Etymology: F f. L capsula f. capsa CASE(2) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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