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# capsule

«capsule» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small tube-shaped container of medicine you swallow** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a capsule, capsules)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A capsule is a small tube-shaped container of medicine you swallow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#m1)

2) A space capsule is a small part of a spacecraft where astronauts sit, which can come back to Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#m2)

3) A time capsule is a box of things buried or kept for people in the future to open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#m3)

4) In plants, a capsule is a seed case that splits open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons pupils learn never to take capsules or tablets unless a trusted adult gives them. In science and space topics astronauts return in a capsule. In class pupils make a time capsule to open later. Also used for coffee pods and laundry capsules, which are dangerous if swallowed.

### examples

- Take one capsule twice a day with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#x1)
- The astronauts splashed down in their capsule. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#x2)
- Our class buried a time capsule in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#x3)
- Never eat laundry capsules, they are poisonous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#x4)
- The poppy's seed capsule rattles when shaken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#x5)
- The capsule was too big for me to swallow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/#x6)

### note

Sounds like «CAP-syool» or «CAP-sule». Medicine capsules can look like sweets — never take them without an adult. Plural «capsules».

### In the corpora

- [Brightly coloured liquid capsules for washing machines have been mistaken for sweets by small children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/25-cleaning-chemicals-safety/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «capsule» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capsule/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.