Vial

Quick meaning: Vial is a noun meaning A glass or plastic vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.

Meaning

A glass or plastic vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a vial (noun sense).

Example Sentences

Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off.

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.

Word Forms

• vials
• vialing
• vialling
• vialed
• vialled

Synonyms for vial

Depending on context, synonyms include beaker, burette, cruet, flask, jar, phial.

Antonyms for vial

Common opposites include ampoule, vacutainer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phial, ampoule, ampule, ampul, bottle, jar.

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