Tablet vs. Pill

Tabletnoun

A slab of clay used for inscription.

Tabletnoun

(religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.

Tabletnoun

A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

Tabletnoun

A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.

Tabletnoun

(computing) A graphics tablet.

Tabletnoun

(computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.

Tabletnoun

(Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs.

Tabletnoun

(rail) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

Tabletverb

(transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

Tabletnoun

A small table or flat surface.

Tabletnoun

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Tabletnoun

Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

Tabletnoun

A kind of pocket memorandum book.

Tabletnoun

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

Tabletnoun

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; - called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

Tabletnoun

a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription

Tabletnoun

a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

Tabletnoun

a small flat compressed cake of some substance;

Tabletnoun

a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

Pillnoun

A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

Pillnoun

Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

Pillnoun

(slang) A comical or entertaining person.

Pillnoun

(slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

Pillnoun

(informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.

Pillnoun

A baseball.

Pillnoun

A bullet (projectile).

Pillnoun

(GUI) A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

Pillnoun

(obsolete) The peel or skin.

Pillnoun

An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

Pillverb

Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

Pillverb

To form into the shape of a pill.

Pillverb

To medicate with pills.

Pillverb

(obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

Pillverb

To peel; to make by removing the skin.

Pillverb

To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pillverb

(obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Pillnoun

The peel or skin.

Pillnoun

A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

Pillnoun

Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

Pillverb

To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pillverb

To deprive of hair; to make bald.

Pillverb

To peel; to make by removing the skin.

Pillverb

To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.

Pillnoun

something that resembles a pill in shape or size

Pillnoun

a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

Pillnoun

a unpleasant or tiresome person

Pillnoun

something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured;

Pillnoun

a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception