pellet
/ˈpɛl.ɪt/
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Australia/ˈpel.ɪt/
pellet noun: a small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
Noun
pellet (plural pellets)
- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
- Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
- A roundel sable (black circular spot).
- Synonyms:
- ogress
- One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
Verb
pellet (third-person singular simple present pellets, present participle pelleting, simple past and past participle pelleted)
- To form into pellets.
- Synonyms:
- pelletize
- To strike with pellets.
pellet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
pellet in Hindi
- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter
- ढेला ḍhelā
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns
- ढेला ḍhelā
pellet in Tamil
- குண்டு, சிறுநிரல், உருளை வடிவ அமைப்பு, குளுவை, சிறுகுளிகை, கவளம்
pellet in Urdu
- pellet
- گلا gullā
pellet in Bengali
- পেলেট
More languagesFewer languages
- pellet in Telugu
- పెల్లెట్
- pellet in Malayalam
- ചെറുപന്ത്, ഉരുള, ഗുളിക, ചെറുഗോളം
- pellet in Kannada
- ಗೋಲಿ, ಸಣ್ಣ ಉಂಡೆ, ಸಣ್ಣಗುಂಡು, ಮಾತ್ರೆ
- pellet in Assamese
- গুলী guli
- pellet in Tagalog
- kamil
- pellet in Persian
- حبه habbe, ساچمه sâčme
Examples of pellet in a sentence
- I feed my pet axie a lot of bloodworms, pellets and other foods.
- A colleague added that they had removed “20 pellets” from the body of a single protester.
- DD8 cells are hemoglobinized, as evidenced by a red cell pellet and positive benzidine staining.
Synonyms of pellet
Forms of pellet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pellets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pellets |
| present participle | pelleting |
| past participle | pelleted |
| past | pelleted |
Origin of pellet
Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
Words formed from pellet
Phrases with pellet
Questions about pellet
- What does pellet mean?
- Pellet means a small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- What is pellet in Hindi?
- Pellet in Hindi is ढेला (ḍhelā). See Pellet meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pellet?
- Pellet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pellet?
- Pellet is pronounced /ˈpɛl.ɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pellet?
- The plural of pellet is pellets.
Words near pellet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pellet (page history and authors); pellet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); گلا (Urdu) (page history and authors); pellet (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pellet (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pellet (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pellet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গুলী (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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