phial, vial, ampule, ampul, ampoule
(noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
phial (plural phials)
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines.
• vial
• test tube
phial (third-person singular simple present phials, present participle (US) phialing or phialling, simple past and past participle (US) phialed or phialled)
(transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
• Phila.
Source: Wiktionary
Phi"al, n. Etym: [F. fiole, L. phiala a broad, flat, shallow cup or bowl, Gr. Vial.]
Definition: A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.
Phi"al, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Phialed; p. pr. & vb. n. Phialing.]
Definition: To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust. Shenstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
