SkyfireDict

capsule   (TTS Sound)

The noun capsule has 7 senses

• capsule -- (a small container)


• capsule -- (a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside)


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


• condensation, abridgement, abridgment, capsule -- (a shortened version of a written work)


• capsule -- (a structure that encloses a body part)


• space capsule, capsule -- (a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space)


• ejection seat, ejector seat, capsule -- (a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute)

The verb capsule has 2 senses

• capsule, capsulate, capsulize, capsulise -- (enclose in a capsule)


• encapsulate, capsule, capsulize, capsulise -- (put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news")