capsule

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This capsule is then attached using 1.4 inch hose barbs and standard air tool hose to a air tool regulator (more Home Depot hacking!), and then to more hose with a barb drileld and threaded into the tank.

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  1. noun A small soluble container, usually made of gelatin, that encloses a dose of an oral medicine or a vitamin.
  2. noun Anatomy A fibrous, membranous, or fatty sheath that encloses an organ or part, such as the sac surrounding the kidney or the fibrous tissues that surround a joint.
  3. noun Microbiology A mucopolysaccharide outer shell enveloping certain bacteria.
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  • The time capsule was available for one month online, translated into 10 languages, and this is what it looked like. —  Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories
  • It was my opinion, and I believe that of the counsel for the defence, that, although so much stress was laid upon the capsule and the administration of the poison by that means, it was not so administered, but that the capsule was an artifice, designed to hoodwink the doctors and Treasury solicitors. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
  • If he was told the capsule was a knock-out drug, one that would make him unconscious for a while, he would take it, knowing there wouldn't be any percentage in our quizzing an unconscious man Hm-m-m. —  135 - The Three Devils
  • In the center of the capsule was a surfboard-shaped wooden bench and on the far end of that bench a huddled form, its grey head tilted to one side. —  EQMM,December2007
  • He reached for the glassite capsule and lifted it and beneath the capsule was an envelope with one word printed on it: KEYS. —  August, 1953
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  1. French, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa, box.

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  1. = D. G. Danish Swedish kapsel, from French capsule = Spanish Portuguese Italian capsula, from Latin capsula, a small box or chest (cf. capsella), diminutive of capsa, a box: see case.
  2. capsule, n.
 

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