name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
prill
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/pɹɪl/
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rhymes with -ɪl
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CMU ARPABET: P R IH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a rill, a small stream
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noun
Meaning 3
a spinning top
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
a pellet, a granule, a small bead
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noun
Meaning 5
rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
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noun
Meaning 6
A nugget of virgin metal.
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Topics: business, mining
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noun
Meaning 7
The button of metal from an assay.
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noun
Meaning 8
The brill, a kind of flatfish.
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verb
Meaning 9
to flow, spurt
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verb
Meaning 10
to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
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verb
Meaning 11
To grow sour.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 12
To become tipsy.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive
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History
Etymology
A variant of purl, 17th century.
Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (“sheep-droppings”) as a likely loan from English.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: топче (topče) — a pellet, a granule
- Bulgarian: маниста (manista) — a pellet, a granule
- Catalan: grànul — a pellet, a granule
- Catalan: perdigó — a pellet, a granule
- Czech: granule — a pellet, a granule
- Czech: peleta — a pellet, a granule
- Polish: granula — a pellet, a granule
- Russian: гра́нула (gránula) — a pellet, a granule
- Catalan: palleta — a nugget of virgin metal
- Polish: samorodek — a nugget of virgin metal
- Russian: саморо́док (samoródok) — a nugget of virgin metal
- Polish: granulować — to produce pellets
- Polish: zgranulować — to produce pellets
- Russian: гранули́ровать (granulírovatʹ) — to produce pellets