noun. A small soluble container, usually made of gelatin, that encloses a dose of an oral medicine or a vitamin.

noun. A fibrous, membranous, or fatty sheath that encloses an organ or part, such as the sac surrounding the kidney or the fibrous tissues that surround a joint.

noun. A polysaccharide outer shell enveloping certain bacteria.

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noun. A dry dehiscent fruit that develops from two or more united carpels.

noun. The thin-walled, spore-containing structure of mosses and related plants.

noun. A space capsule.

noun. A brief summary; a condensation.

adjective. Highly condensed; very brief.

adjective. Very small; compact.

transitive verb. To enclose in or furnish with a capsule.

transitive verb. To condense or summarize.

To furnish (a bottle, medicinal powder, etc.) with a capsule.

noun. A small casing, envelop, covering, etc., natural or artificial, usually thin or membranous; a cover or container of some small object or quantity of matter. Specifically.

noun. In botany, a dehiscent pod or seed-vessel, either membranous or woody, composed of two or more carpels, which at maturity becomes dry and opens by regular valves corresponding in number to the carpels, or twice as numerous.

noun. In chem.: A small saucer made of clay for roasting samples of ores, or for melting them.

noun. A small shallow vessel made of Berlin ware, platinum, etc., for evaporations, solutions, and the like.

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a membrane or ligament inclosing some part or organ as in a bag or sac; a saccular envelop or investment: as, the capsule of the crystalline lens of the eye; the capsule of a joint, as the hip.

noun. In anatomy, some part or organ likened to a capsule: as, the adrenal capsules.

noun. In Protozoa, the included perforated test of a radiolarian.

noun. In entomology, a horny case inclosing the eggs of an insect, as those of the cockroach. Also called oötheca.

noun. A cap of thin metal, such as tin-foil, put over the mouth of a corked bottle to preserve the cork from drying.

noun. A small gelatinous case or envelop in which nauseous medicines are inclosed to be swallowed.

noun. The shell of a metallic cartridge or of a fulminating tube.

noun. a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds

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noun. A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.

noun. a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.

noun. A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.

noun. A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint. Also, a capsulelike organ.

noun. A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle.

noun. A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.

noun. See under Atrabiliary.

noun. a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ.

noun. a ductless gland secreting epinephrine, norepinephrine, and steroid hormones, on the upper end of each kidney. It is also called the adrenal gland, glandula suprarenalis, suprarenal gland, epinephros, atrabiliary capsule, and adrenal capsule.

noun. A membranous envelope.

noun. A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.

noun. A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.

noun. A detachable part of rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing crew's living space.

noun. A small container containing a dose of medicine.

noun. A weasel.

noun. in a brief, condensed or compact form

noun. a shortened version of a written work

noun. a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space

noun. a structure that encloses a body part

verb. enclose in a capsule

verb. put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume

noun. a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside

noun. a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses

noun. a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute

"SCOTT SIMON, host: Now, different kind of time capsule - Chad Matheny, a Los Angeles-based musician who records under the name Emperor X, his capsule is a cassette of his music and he buries it in the ground, then tells his fans to find it."

adrenal capsule  atrabiliary capsule  auditory capsule  bonnet's capsule  bowman's capsule  

Seat  ballistic capsule  concentrate  condense  digest  

balloon  bubble  cage  canister  chamber  

Earth insertion  LEM  LM  abbreviated  abbreviation  

capsuled  capsules  capsuling