The Pillとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /pɪl/
• 韻: -ɪl

語源 1

From Middle Low German or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pilula.

名詞

pill (複数形 pills)

1. A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
   • 1864, Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary [1]

     Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.

2. ​ (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

   Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

   She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.

   • 1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:

     Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

3. (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
4. (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:

     You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.

   • 2000, Susan Isaacs, Shining Through [2]

     Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation.

5. (informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.
   • 1999, Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True [3]

     One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.

6. (archaic, baseball slang) A baseball.
   • 2002, John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound [4]

     Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.

7. (firearms) (informal) a bullet (projectile)

同意語

• (small object for swallowing): tablet

派生語

動詞

pill (三人称単数 現在形 pills, 現在分詞 pilling, 過去形および過去分詞形 pilled)

1. (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
   • 1997, Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color [5]

     During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling かつ itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.

2. To form into the shape of a pill.

   Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.

3. To medicate with pills.

   She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.

語源 2

From Latin pilō (“depilate”), from pilus (“hair”).

動詞

pill (三人称単数 現在形 pills, 現在分詞 pilling, 過去形および過去分詞形 pilled)

1. (obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
2. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
   • Bible, Genesis xxx. 37

     [Jacob] pilled white streaks […] in the rods.

3. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
4. (obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XXI:

     he saw and harkened by the moonelyght how that pyllours and robbers were com into the fylde to pylle and to robbe many a full noble knyght […]

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

名詞

pill (複数形 pills)

1. The peel or skin.
   • Holland

     Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts.

語源 3

From Middle English *pill, *pyll, from 古期英語 pyll (“a pool, pill”), from Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool, stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *bale- (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with 古期英語 pull (“pool, creek”), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet”), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle”). More at pool.

名詞

pill (複数形 pills)

1. (now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.