Betekenis van pill In het Nederlands

• 0 a small solid piece of medicine that a person swallows without chewing (= crushing with the teeth):

  • a sleeping pill

  • a vitamin pill

  • My mother takes three or four pills a day.

  • Jamie's always had trouble swallowing pills.

  • Are you on the pill?

• 1 an annoying person:

  • Jennifer was being such a pill today.

• 2 a small ball of threads that develops on the surface of clothes or material:

  • She sat there sulking and picking the pills off her sweater.

• 3 If a piece of clothing or material pills, it develops small balls of threads on its surface.

• 4 a small, solid substance that a person swallows whole, esp. as medicine:

  • a sleeping pill