capsule

«capsule» in Mova's school dictionary: a small tube-shaped container of medicine you swallow — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a capsule, capsules)

meaning for a pupil

1) A capsule is a small tube-shaped container of medicine you swallow. tree →

2) A space capsule is a small part of a spacecraft where astronauts sit, which can come back to Earth. tree →

3) A time capsule is a box of things buried or kept for people in the future to open. tree →

4) In plants, a capsule is a seed case that splits open. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons pupils learn never to take capsules or tablets unless a trusted adult gives them. In science and space topics astronauts return in a capsule. In class pupils make a time capsule to open later. Also used for coffee pods and laundry capsules, which are dangerous if swallowed.

examples

• Take one capsule twice a day with water. tree →
• The astronauts splashed down in their capsule. tree →
• Our class buried a time capsule in the school garden. tree →
• Never eat laundry capsules, they are poisonous. tree →
• The poppy's seed capsule rattles when shaken. tree →
• The capsule was too big for me to swallow. tree →

note

Sounds like «CAP-syool» or «CAP-sule». Medicine capsules can look like sweets — never take them without an adult. Plural «capsules».

In the corpora

• Brightly coloured liquid capsules for washing machines have been mistaken for sweets by small children.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «capsule» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.