(v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
(n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
(n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
(2) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
(3) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(4) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(5) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
(6) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
(7) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
(8) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
(9) Among women using the pill for 8 years, the relative risk was 2.6 (p0.0001).
(10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(11) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
(12) The amino acid pool in leukocytes was found to be smaller in those patients taking the "pill".
(13) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
(14) 88% of the women in the recent study had used the pill at some point and 45% had used an IUD--methods that were not available to women in the 1940s.
(15) The pill group gave birth on an average of 5.79 days after the date forecast by Naegele's rule and .15 days before the date calculated from the ultrasound examination.
(16) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(17) The estrogen potencies of 9 oral contraceptive pills, Enovid-E, Enovid-5, Ovulen, Demulen, Norinyl+80, Norinyl+50, Ovral, Norlestrin 1 mg. and Norlestrin 2.5 mg., were determined by bioassay.
(18) Motor behavior of substitutes was assessed following dry swallows and following several stimuli: intraluminar injection of 30 ml of water or 0.1N hydrochloric acid and swallowing pills.
(19) Presumably the competitive binding of iron by ascorbic acid in the vitamin pill allowed uninhibited absorption of the iron.
(20) Ten women were taking an oral contraceptive containing 50 mug oestrogen and progestogen ("combined pill"), one patient took a progestogen-only contraceptive and 14 served as controls.
Vill
Definition:
(n.) A small collection of houses; a village.
Example Sentences:
(1) The direct Fourier transform method, autoregressive modelling, the maximum likelihood method and the Wigner-Ville distribution were applied to the Doppler signal obtained from a fully insonated laminar model flow.
(2) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(3) These differences in the distribution of the chorionic ville in some classes of size between placentas of diabetic and such of normal pregnancies are significantly too.
(4) Mantes-la-Ville, 30 miles west of Paris, is the first town to be run by the Front National in the Île-de-France region that surrounds the capital.
(5) The tomb of Henry II (1248) in the abbeychurch of Villers-la-Ville, nowadays disappeared.
(6) Ten flavonoid C-glycosyl derivatives: orientin (1), isoorientin (2), vitexin (3), isovitexin (4), isovitexin 7,2"-di-O-glucoside (5), isovitexin 7-O-galactoside-2"-O-glucoside (6), two different 6,8-di-C-hexosylapigenins (7, 8), and two different 6-C-hexosyl-8-C-pentosylapigenins (9, 10) have been either produced from flavonoid fractions from Adonis vernalis L. (1, 2) and Crataegus species (3, 4), or isolated from Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
(7) From timeless mountain villages such as Ville-di-Paraso and Speloncato there are stunning views across the Regino valley towards the distant coast, and as the light changes in the afternoon, the jutting ridges of granite glow pink.
(8) It has been determined that the thromboplastic agents from the inflorescence of the birch Betula pendula Roth, blossoms of the willow Salix daphnoides Vill., seeds of the pea Pisum sativum L. provoke protective reaction of the animal's anticoagulation system, though weaker expressed than the reaction of thromboplastin from brain.
(9) In the rabbit, this occurs before the time of appearance or ville or of an enzyme marker (lactase) for microville.
(10) The program, Ville plus sûre, quartiers sans accidents, was launched in 1984, with goals of integrating motorized traffic into urban environments with due regard to local participation and awareness.
(11) Over the course of 17 years I disturbed their daily routines by turning Paris upside down; and they had to look at the same face of the prefect in the Hôtel de Ville.
(12) Mantes-la-Ville echoes the concerns of many in English towns who voted to leave.
(13) If the polls are accurate, the Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo will get the keys to the city and the 150 sq metre mayoral office at the French capital's imposing Hôtel de Ville on the banks of the Seine.
(14) Focus formation following DNA transfection of mouse 3T3-Vill cells was used to search for the presence of activated oncogenes in human thyroid tumors.
(15) I identified them all first time - which clearly pleased Ville Makinen, co-founder and chief technology officer.
(16) This is Smart Lane, New England Ville, although those who live here don’t exactly have all the comforts the address implies.
(17) Which, appearing opposite Jim Carrey as the bumptious Mayor of Who-ville, is precisely his role in Ron Howard's imminent, baroquely sentimental Grinch.
(18) "I've had bikes stolen so many times, I'd rather just use these," says an advertising executive at a bike point at the Hôtel de Ville.
(19) Washington and the Bills are also both in the red zone – it’s been a fast start to the second-half just about everywhere… 7.39pm GMT Around the league So here’s the full half-time roundup: Chiefs 3-10 Vills Vikings 10-6 Cowboys Titans 7-7 Rams Chargers 14-7 Washington Saints 14-20 Jets Falcons 10-14 Panthers 7.38pm GMT End of first half: Saints 14-20 Jets Drew Brees takes a knee, and that’s the half.
(20) Her solo exhibition Linder Sterling is at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 7 October to 31 December 2011.