prill

See also: Prill

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

A variant of purl, 17th century.

Verb

prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

1. to flow, spurt
   • 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London:

     the Thames, prillingfrom her naked breast

Noun

prill (plural prills)

1. a rill, a small stream
   • 1603, John Davies, Microcosmos:

     Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand

2. (obsolete) a spinning top

Etymology 2

Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (“sheep-droppings”) as a likely loan from English.

Noun

prill (plural prills)

1. a pellet, a granule, a small bead
   • 2000, R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, page 275:

     Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.

   • 2007, Stan A. David, Trends in Welding Research: Proceedings of the 7Th International, page 661:

     The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills, i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.

2. rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
3. (mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
4. The button of metal from an assay.

Translations

a pellet, a granule

• Bulgarian: топче (bg) n (topče), маниста f (manista)
• Catalan: grànul m, perdigó m
• Russian: гра́нула (ru) f (gránula)

a nugget of virgin metal

• Catalan: palleta (ca) f
• Russian: саморо́док (ru) m (samoródok)

Verb

prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

1. to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling

Synonyms

• pelletize

Derived terms

• prilling
• prill sulfur

Translations

to produce pellets

• Russian: гранули́ровать (ru) (granulírovatʹ)

Etymology 3

Noun

prill (plural prills)

1. The brill, a kind of flatfish.

Etymology 4

Verb

prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)

1. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To grow sour.
2. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To become tipsy.

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin Aprīlis. Compare popular Romanian prier (“April”), Aromanian aprir, prilj.

Noun

prill m (definite prilli)

1. April

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) muaj; janar, shkurt, mars, prill, maj, qershor, korrik, gusht, shtator, tetor, nëntor, dhjetor ^{(Category: sq:Months)}