Did you see how the fish grabbed a pellet of food just before it reached the bottom of the tank?
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Pellet
//ˈpel.ɪt//
Synonyms for "pellet" (69 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (34)
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2 entriesderived
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8 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- сачма noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- топче noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
Catalan
3 entries- egagròpila noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- perdigó noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- pèl·let noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
Czech
1 entries- diabolka noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Dutch
4 entries- balletje noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- braakbal noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- hagelkorrel noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- kogeltje noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Finnish
3 entries- luoti noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- oksennuspallo noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- pelletti noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
French
3 entries- granule noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- pelote noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- plomb noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
German
1 entries- Gewölle noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
Hindi
2 entries- ढेला noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- ढेला noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Hungarian
4 entries- bagolyköpet noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- granulátum noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- köpet noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- sörét noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Icelandic
1 entries- bollur noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
Korean
1 entries- 총탄 noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Māori
1 entries- hāmoamoa noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
Persian
2 entries- حبه noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- ساچمه noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Polish
2 entries- granulka noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- śrut noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Portuguese
4 entries- chumbinho noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- egagrópila noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- pelota de chumbo noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- plumada noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
Russian
2 entries- ока́тыш noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- пога́дка noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- peilear noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Slovak
1 entries- granula noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
Spanish
4 entries- balín noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- bolita noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- egagrópila noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
- pellet (pélet) noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
Swedish
2 entries- pellet noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- spyboll noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
Tagalog
2 entries- kamil noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- kamil noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Turkish
1 entries- top noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ока́ток noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- погадка noun (Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls)
Welsh
3 entries- peled noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
- peled noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
- pelen noun (A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter)
Yoruba
1 entries- àhàyá noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Yup'ik
1 entries- kal'ciissaaq noun (A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Indian forces have been known to use pellet guns against protestors in Kashmir.
Source: tatoeba (8682652)
Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report they were able to create a type of fusion reaction by bombarding a microscopic pellet of fuel with beams from 192 powerful lasers to compress its component parts — hydrogen isotopes known as deuterium and tritium — and fuse them together at the atomic level.
Source: tatoeba (10921443)
After the crash, Mr. Smith quickly fled the scene and attempted suicide at his home by slitting his wrists and shooting himself with a pellet gun.
Source: tatoeba (11213540)
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