| 单词 | pellet |
| 释义 | pellet (once / 3905 pages) n A pellet is a small, rounded piece of something, especially a compressed nugget of some material. Many pets eat food that comes in pellets, including some fish, rabbits, and guinea pigs. You might feed your pet rat pellets each day, or heat your house by burning pellets made of compressed sawdust in a special kind of stove. When it hails or sleets, tiny pellets of ice fall from the sky, and your cousin's BB gun works by shooting tiny metal pellets from its barrel. Pellet is from the Old French pelote, "small ball," which has the Latin pelote, or "ball," as its root. WORD FAMILYpellet: pellets USAGE EXAMPLESOnly the pollution released when wood pellets are produced and transported is counted on climate ledgers. Salon(Dec 25, 2016) Investigators later determined that Trotter’s weapon was a pellet gun. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) A spokesman later said the weapon was a pellet gun. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) 1n a small sphere Hyper ball, globe, orb an object with a spherical shape 2n a solid missile discharged from a firearm Syn|Hypo|Hyper shot BB, BB shot a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun bird shot, buckshot, duck shotsmall lead shot for shotgun shells grape, grapeshota cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot ball, musket balla solid projectile that is shot by a musket missile, projectile a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled |
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