pellet

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlɪt

Noun

pellet (plural pellets)

1. A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.

   a pellet of wood, paper, or ore

2. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
3. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.

Translations

A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter

• Dutch: balletje, propje
• Finnish: pelletti (fi)

• French: granule (fr)
• Portuguese: sedimento

A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns

• Dutch: kogeltje, hagelkorrel
• Finnish: luoti (fi)
• French: plomb (fr) m

• Portuguese: pelota de chumbo, chumbinho (projétil)
• Scottish Gaelic: peilear (gd) m

Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls

• Dutch: uilebal
• Finnish: oksennuspallo (fi)

• French: pelote (fr)
• Spanish: egagrópila (es) f

Verb

pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)

1. To form into pellets
2. To strike with pellets

Synonyms

• (to form into pellets) pelletize

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Finnish

Noun

pellet

1. Plural form of pelle

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Latin

Verb

pellet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of pellō