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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology 1
[edit]A variant of purl, 17th century.
Verb
[edit]prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)
- to flow, spurt
- 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London:
- the Thames, prillingfrom her naked breast
Noun
[edit]prill (plural prills)
- a rill, a small stream
- 1603, John Davies, Microcosmos:
- Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand
- (obsolete) a spinning top
Etymology 2
[edit]Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (“sheep-droppings”) as a likely loan from English.
Noun
[edit]prill (plural prills)
- a pellet, a granule, a small bead
- 2000, R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, page 275:
- Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.
- 2007, Stan A. David, Trends in Welding Research: Proceedings of the 7Th International, page 661:
- The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills, i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.
- rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
- (mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
- The button of metal from an assay.
Translations
[edit]a pellet, a granule
a nugget of virgin metal
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Verb
[edit]prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)
- to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to produce pellets
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Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]prill (plural prills)
- The brill, a kind of flatfish.
Etymology 4
[edit]Verb
[edit]prill (third-person singular simple present prills, present participle prilling, simple past and past participle prilled)
- (intransitive, UK, dialect) To grow sour.
- (intransitive, UK, dialect) To become tipsy.
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin Aprīlis. Compare popular Romanian prier (“April”), Aromanian aprir, prilj.
Noun
[edit]prill m (definite prilli)
See also
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