pellet

/'pelit/

Thân thiện

A child feeds a pellet of food to a pet rabbit.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A small, dense, typically spherical mass of a substance: A "pellet" is a small, hard ball made from various materials, often compressed or formed into a round shape.
   • A small, round projectile: In the context of firearms or air guns, a "pellet" is a small, usually non-explosive, ball of metal or other material designed to be shot from a weapon.

Usage

• The word "pellet" is a countable noun. You can have one pellet or many pellets.
• It is commonly used to describe objects in fields like ammunition, animal feed, medicine, and manufacturing.

Examples

• General Use:
  • The rabbit's food consists of small, dry pellets.
  • He loaded a single lead pellet into the air rifle.
• Specific Contexts:
  • The medicine is administered in the form of a tiny pellet.
  • The factory produces plastic pellets that are melted down to make bottles.

Advanced Usage

• "Pellet gun": A type of gun designed to shoot pellets. (Note: This is a compound noun listed here as a common collocation).
  • Children should be supervised when using a pellet gun.
• "Pellet stove": A heating device that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets.
  • They heat their cabin with a pellet stove.

Variants and Related Words

• Pelletize (verb): To form or compress a substance into pellets.
  • The process pelletizes the recycled plastic.
• Pelleted (adjective): Describing something that is in the form of pellets.
  • The pelleted fertilizer is easy to spread.

Synonyms

• Ball: A solid or hollow spherical object.
• Shot: Small lead pellets used in shotgun shells.
• Bead: A small, often decorative ball.
• Pill: A small, rounded mass of medicine (a specific type of pellet).

Antonyms

• Powder: A substance consisting of fine, loose particles.
• Liquid: A flowing substance.

Related Phrases and Collocations

• Bird pellet: A regurgitated mass of indigestible parts of a bird's food.
  • The owl pellet contained bones and fur.
• Pellet feed: Animal food manufactured in pellet form.
  • The farmer bought a bag of pellet feed for the chickens.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a solid missile discharged from a firearm
   • the shot buzzed past his ear
2. a small sphere

Từ đồng nghĩa

• shot