亚洲网紅露点

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pellet

[ pel-it ]

noun

  1. a small, rounded or spherical body, as of food or medicine.
  2. a small wad or ball of wax, paper, etc., for throwing, shooting, or the like.
  3. one of a charge of small shot, as for a shotgun.
  4. a bullet.
  5. a ball, usually of stone, formerly used as a missile.
  6. Also called cast. Ornithology. a small, roundish mass of matter regurgitated by certain predatory birds, consisting of the indigestible remains, as the fur, feathers, and bones, of the prey.
  7. (in Romanesque architecture) a hemispherical or disklike carved ornament.
  8. Heraldry. ogress 2.


verb (used with object)

  1. to form into pellets; pelletize.
  2. to hit with pellets.

pellet

/ 藞辫蓻濒瑟迟 /

noun

  1. a small round ball, esp of compressed matter

    a wax pellet

    1. an imitation bullet used in toy guns
    2. a piece of small shot
  2. a stone ball formerly used as a catapult or cannon missile
  3. Also calledcastcasting ornithol a mass of undigested food, including bones, fur, feathers, etc, that is regurgitated by certain birds, esp birds of prey
  4. a small pill
  5. a raised area on coins and carved or moulded ornaments
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to strike with pellets
  2. to make or form into pellets
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pellet1

1325鈥75; Middle English pelet < Middle French pelote < Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila ball. See pill 1, -et
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pellet1

C14: from Old French pelote, from Vulgar Latin pilota (unattested), from Latin pila ball
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After the November presidential election, the friends experienced their first hate crime in Hollywood when a car passing by shot them with airsoft pellets and yelled a gay slur.

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A shipment of more than 66,000 tonnes of iron ore pellets and 27,000 tonnes of iron ore fines is due to arrive from Sweden next week.

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Terry was the sixth person to be shot by Bird that morning, Emma the seventh as she was struck by multiple shotgun pellets.

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The blast furnaces generate the extreme heat needed to produce virgin steel and are fuelled by coking coal and iron pellets - but supplies of those raw materials at the Scunthorpe plant are running low.

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While the conservancy and its partners figured out what to do, rangers ferried lucerne pellets and other food to the island to help keep the giraffes alive.

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