vial
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English
Etymology
From Middle English vial, viole, a variant of fiole, phiole, phial (“small bowl or cup for liquids, etc.; flask”) : see further at phial. Doublet of phiale.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪəl/, /ˈvaɪl/
Audio (GA) (file) - Homophone: vile (one GA pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -aɪəl, (one GA pronunciation) -aɪl
- Hyphenation: vi‧al
Noun
vial (plural vials)
- A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.
- Synonym: phial
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Revelation 16:3:
- And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
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Translations
small tube-shaped bottle used to store a chemical
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Verb
vial (third-person singular simple present vials, present participle vialling or (US) vialing, simple past and past participle vialled or (US) vialed)
- (transitive) To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a vial (noun sense).
- Synonym: phial
References
- ^ “fīōle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “vial, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “vial, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
vial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “vial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
Noun
vial m (plural viaj)
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adjective
vial m or f (masculine and feminine plural viales)
Noun
vial m (plural viales)
Etymology 2
Noun
vial m (plural viales)
Further reading
- “vial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014