vial
[
vahy
-
uh
l, vahyl]
/ˈvaɪ əl, vaɪl/
noun
1.
Also,
phial
. a small container, as of glass, for holding liquids:
a vial of rare perfume; a vial of medicine.
verb (used with object)
,
vialed,
vialing
or
(
especially British
)
vialled,
vialling.
2.
to put into or keep in a vial.
Idioms
3.
pour out vials of wrath,
to wreak vengeance or express anger:
In her preface she pours out vials of wrath on her detractors.
Origin
1300-50;
Middle English
viole,
variant of
fiole
phial
Can be confused
vial,
vile
,
viol
.
Examples from the web for
vial
Enclosed is an air bubble that floats to the highest part of the
vial
.
Catching addicts is easy: if the police frisk enough people in druggy areas, they are sure to find a crack
vial
or two.
She finds the spider and either flicks it into a
vial
with a spoon or uses a suction device.
After the questions, he asked me to roll up my sleeve so he could take a
vial
of blood.
Locatelli touches more of the scent from the
vial
to the disk, and her newest discovery soon arrives.
The scientists produced a
vial
of soy sauce and placed it on the kitchen table.
The blood collects into an airtight
vial
or tube attached to the needle.
The investigation began with a
vial
of blue-green liquid.
Billions of infectious particles can be stored in a small
vial
, much easier to smuggle into a country than a nuclear device.
He transfers the sample into a
vial
, which is lifted by a robotic arm into the gas chromatography tower.
British Dictionary definitions for
vial
vial
/
ˈvaɪəl;
vaɪl
/
noun
1.
a less common variant of
phial
Word Origin
C14:
fiole,
from Old French, from Old Provençal
fiola,
from Latin
phiala,
from Greek
phialē;
see
phial
Word Origin and History for
vial
n.
c.1300, variant of
fyole
(see
phial
).