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Noun capsule has 7 senses
- capsule - a small container
--1 is a kind of container
--1 has particulars: paintball
- capsule - a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
--2 is a kind of pill, lozenge, tablet, tab
- capsule - a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
--3 is a kind of pericarp, seed vessel
--3 has part: peristome
--3 has particulars: bilocular capsule; boll; silique, siliqua
- condensation, abridgement, abridgment, capsule - a shortened version of a written work
--4 is a kind of summary
- capsule - a structure that encloses a body part
--5 is a kind of structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
--5 has particulars:
- space capsule, capsule - a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
--6 is a kind of spacecraft, ballistic capsule, space vehicle
- 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
--7 is a kind of seat
--7 is a part of cockpit
Verb capsule has 2 senses
- capsule, capsulate, capsulize, capsulise - enclose in a capsule
--1 is one way to envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- encapsulate, capsule, capsulize, capsulise - put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news"
--2 is one way to digest, condense, concentrate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
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