pellet

See also: pèl·let

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.

Pronunciation
  • (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɛl.ɪt/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpel.ɪt/
  • 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 and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
  4. (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
    Synonym: ogress
  5. One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Catalan: pèl·let

Translations

Verb

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

  1. To form into pellets.
    Synonym: pelletize
  2. To strike with pellets.

See also
metals main colours less common colours
tincture orargentgulesazuresablevertpurpuretennéorangesanguine
depiction a shield of gold a shield of silver a shield of red a shield of blue a shield of black a shield of green a shield of purple a shield of brownish orange a shield of bright orange a shield of blood red
roundel (in parentheses: semé): a circle of gold
bezant (bezanty)		a circle of silver
plate (platy)		a circle of red
torteau (tortelly)		a circle of blue
hurt (hurty)		a circle of black
pellet (pellety), ogress		a circle of green
pomme

a circle of purple
golpe (golpy)		a circle of orange
orange (semé of oranges)		a circle of blood red
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: a drop of gold
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)		a drop of silver
d'eau (of water)		a drop of red
de sang (of blood)		a drop of blue
de larmes (of tears)		a drop of black
de poix

(of pitch)		a drop of green
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)		a drop of purple



special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azureermineermines, counter-ermineerminoispeanvaircounter-vairpotentcounter-potentbleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction a circle of wavy blue and silver bars a shield of ermine a shield of ermines a shield of erminois a shield of pean a shield of vair a shield of countervair a shield of potent a shield of counterpotent

Further reading
  • “pellet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Finnish

Noun

pellet

  1. nominative plural of pelle

German

Pronunciation
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Verb

pellet

  1. second-person plural subjunctive I of pellen

Latin

Verb

pellet

  1. third-person singular future active indicative of pellō

Spanish

Noun

pellet m (plural pellets)

  1. pellet (projectile)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pellet.

Noun

pellet c

  1. (usually in the plural) a pellet (small, compressed, hard chunk of matter, often feed or wood pellets)

Declension
Declension of pellet 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pellet pelleten pellets, pelletar pelletarna
Genitive pellets pelletens pellets, pelletars pelletarnas

See also

References
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