PELLET meaning: Small, compressed unit of material

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word pellet:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

pellet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pellet: Merriam-Webster
pellet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
pellet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
pellet: Collins English Dictionary
pellet: Vocabulary.com
Pellet, pellet: Wordnik
pellet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
pellet: Wiktionary
pellet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pellet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
pellet: Infoplease Dictionary
pellet: Dictionary.com
pellet: Online Etymology Dictionary
pellet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Pellet (air gun), Pellet (ornithology), Pellet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Pellet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
pellet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
pellet: Rhymezone
Pellet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
pellet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
pellet: FreeDictionary.org
pellet: Mnemonic Dictionary
pellet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

pellet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

pellet: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
pellet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Pellet: Castle Terms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

pellet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
pellet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Explosives (No longer online)
Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
▸ noun:  A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot).
▸ noun:  One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
▸ verb:  To form into pellets.
▸ verb:  To strike with pellets.

Similar:

shot, peleton, pellet gun, nugget, particle, prill, pebble, pastille, chunklet, parvule, more...

Opposite:

mass, lump, chunk, block, slab

Types:

BB, airsoft, paintball, more...

Phrases:

cotton pellet, pellet gun, fuel pellet, pellet guns, pellet stoves, more...

Adjectives:

small, final, dry, single, nuclear, little, tiny, bacterial, white, resuspended, wash

Colors:

brown, gray, white, black, beige, more...