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I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.'
Les Dawson

Meaning of "pills" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PILLS

pills  [pɪlz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILLS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pills is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PILLS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pill

Pill or The Pill may refer to: Drug-related: ▪ Pill, referring to anything small and round for a specific dose of medicine ▪ "The Pill", a general nickname for the combined oral contraceptive pill Places: ▪ Pill, Tyrol, a municipality in Austria ▪ Pill, Somerset, a village in the United Kingdom ▪ Pill, a colloquial abbreviation of Pillgwenlly, electoral ward in the city of Newport, South Wales Entertainment: ▪ "The Pill", a 1975 song by Loretta Lynn ▪ The Pill, a 2011 film ▪ "The Pill", a 1999 episode of That '70s Show TV series ▪ "Pills", a song by Bo Diddley People: ▪ Alison Pill, Canadian actress ▪ Brett Pill, American Major League Baseball player ▪ Cathy Pill, Belgian fashion designer ▪ Malcolm Pill, a former Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales ▪ Pill, American rapper Other uses: ▪ Pill, a small ball of fuzz on cloth, or the creation of such fuzz balls...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PILLS


after-sales
ˈɑːftəˌseɪlz
Dales
deɪlz
Giles
dʒaɪlz
hills
hɪlz
Mills
mɪlz
piles
paɪlz
sales
seɪlz
Scales
skeɪlz
Smiles
smaɪlz
spoils
spɔɪlz
tails
teɪlz
telesales
ˈtɛlɪˌseɪlz
textiles
ˈtɛkstaɪlz
Wales
weɪlz
Wills
wɪlz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PILLS

pillion passenger
pillionist
pilliwinks
pillock
pilloried
pillories
pillorize
pillory
pillow
pillow block
pillow fight
pillow lace
pillow lava
pillow sham
pillow talk
pillowcase
pillowslip
pillowy
pillworm
pillwort

WORDS THAT END LIKE PILLS

as old as the hills
battle of wills
Beverly Hills
Black Hills
Catskills
communication skills
gills
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interpersonal skills
keyboard skills
language skills
management skills
no-frills
people skills
presentation skills
programming skills
Sills
social skills
soft skills
the hills

Synonyms and antonyms of pills in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PILLS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pills» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pills

Translation of «pills» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PILLS

Find out the translation of pills to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pills from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pills» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pastillas
570 millions of speakers

English

pills
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोलियाँ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حبوب منع الحمل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

таблетки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

comprimidos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বড়ি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pilules
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pillen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ピル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuốc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாத்திரைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोळ्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

haplar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pillole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pigułki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

таблетки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pastile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χάπια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pille
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tabletter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

piller
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pills

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PILLS»

The term «pills» is very widely used and occupies the 11.081 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PILLS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pills» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pills» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pills

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10 QUOTES WITH «PILLS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pills.
1
Homaro Cantu
If you have time-release pills, you could have time-release expanding cheesecakes.
2
Johnny Carson
We're more effective than birth control pills.
3
Les Dawson
I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.'
4
Tom DeLay
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
5
James Dyson
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
6
Bob Fosse
I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.
7
Ben Goldacre
There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.
8
David Green
The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.
9
Corey Haim
But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.
10
Mimi Kennedy
I've got allergy pills upstairs in my room, and it says 'For Cat Work' right on it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILLS»

Discover the use of pills in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pills and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
Frederik meets Cati and falls in love, but the two face many obstacles to happiness because Cati is HIV positive, as is her three-year-old son.
Frederik Peeters, 2008
2
Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Stephen Fried, 2011
3
Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
With a barrage of "ask your doctor about" advertisements competing for attention with shocking news of drug company malfeasance, Happy Pills is an invaluable look at how the commercialization of medicine has transformed American culture ...
David Herzberg, 2010
4
Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Consumer's Guide to Avoiding ...
A consumer's guide to frequently prescribed medications offers information on dangerous drugs, hundreds of safer alternative medications, the two hundred most commonly prescribed pills, and new drugs on the market.
‎2005
5
Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Consumer's Guide to Preventing ...
THIS IS THE BOOK THAT TELLS YOU WHAT OTHER PILL BOOKS WON'T ABOUT YOUR MEDICATION!
Sid M. Wolfe, 2009
6
Diet Pills
Describes the history, origins, types, effects, and dangers of diet pills and discusses how to build self-esteem and lose weight in more healthy ways.
Amy E. Breguet, 2008
7
Pills for Cats: Finding Happiness Through Modern Pharmacology
Depressed? Sleepless? Anxious? With pills, you can be a brand-new kitty. This is the tale of one very neurotic, anxious, depressed, unfocused, sleep-deprived cat who discovers the joys of medication.
Charles Kreloff, Patty Brown, 2007
8
Pills, Profits, and Politics
A report on misrepresentation and irresponsibility in the prescription drug industry
Milton Silverman, Philip Randolph Lee, 1974
9
Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change Among Tibetan ...
This book investigates what happens to traditional medical systems when they are uprooted, i.e. when practitioners and patients become displaced, by looking at the transformations of traditional Tibetan medicine among the Tibetan refugee ...
Audrey Prost, 2008
10
Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in ...
This book is essential reading for policymakers and their staff as well as persons who study the history of health policy and those who contribute to it through medical research, advocacy and journalism.
Dominique A. Tobbell, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PILLS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pills is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Trouble swallowing pills? These steps can help
This is actually a common concern for patients. Hopefully one of these tips will help: •Tilt your head forward to swallow. When we tilt our head ... «The News-Press, Jul 15»
2
New mum Helen Skelton feels like she's on happy pills
Former Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton says she feels like she is "on happy pills" after the birth of her son Ernie. «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
3
New Orleans Saints Junior Gallette Rumors: Sean Payton Accused …
His most potent venom was saved for Saints head coach Sean Payton, whom he accused of abusing prescription pills and holding training ... «Sports World News, Jul 15»
4
Nurse who stole thousands of pills suspended for six months
A woman who was sacked from the Highlands' flagship hospital for stealing more than 1,600 pills has been suspended for six months by the ... «Aberdeen Press and Journal, Jul 15»
5
Children hospitalised after pills consumed in southside childcare …
One of the three hospitalised children was kept for observation for two nights; the other two were discharged the same day. Photo: Fairfax. «The Canberra Times, Jul 15»
6
If you have insomnia, pills may not be the answer
Like many insomniacs, Crystal Blount tried sleeping pills. They put her to sleep, she says, but left her feeling groggy the. «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
7
Osceola County deputy arrested after allegedly buying pills from …
“During that operation, Sigman, in uniform and on duty, purchased Percocet pills from the informant. Based on this information he was arrested ... «WFTV Orlando, Jul 15»
8
Try these techniques for child who can't swallow pills
DEAR DOCTOR K: My 7-year-old was recently prescribed a medication that comes only in pill form. The problem is, he can't swallow pills. «Daily Journal Online, Jul 15»
9
Diet pills website 'should have been shut down' a year before …
Eloise Parry died in April after taking eight diet pills. ... The website believed to have sold diet pills to Eloise Parry, a 21-year-old student who ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Avoid Popping Pills: Foods That Can Act As Medicine
CNN- A typical visit to the doctor might leave you with a bottle of pills and instructions to take them twice daily. But a small, growing number of ... «10TV, Jul 15»

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