The difference between Football and Pill

When used as nouns, football means a sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team, whereas pill means a small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

Pill is also verb with the meaning: of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

check bellow for the other definitions of Football and Pill

  1. Football as a noun (general):

    A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

    Examples:

    "Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football."

  2. Football as a noun (UK, uncountable):

    Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

    Examples:

    "Each team scored three goals when they played football."

  3. Football as a noun (US, uncountable):

    American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    Examples:

    "Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football."

  4. Football as a noun (Canada, uncountable):

    Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    Examples:

    "They played football in the snow."

  5. Football as a noun (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable):

    Australian rules football.

  6. Football as a noun (Ireland, uncountable):

    Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

  7. Football as a noun (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable):

    rugby league.

  8. Football as a noun (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand):

    rugby union.

  9. Football as a noun (countable):

    The ball used in any game called "football".

    Examples:

    "The player kicked the football."

  10. Football as a noun (uncountable):

    Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

  11. Football as a noun (figuratively, countable):

    An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

    Examples:

    "That budget item became a political football."

  12. Football as a noun (slang, US, countable):

    The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

  1. Pill as a noun:

    A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

  2. Pill as a noun (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the"):

    Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

    Examples:

    "Jane went on the pill when she left for college."

    "She got pregnant one month after going off the pill."

  3. Pill as a noun (slang):

    A comical or entertaining person.

  4. Pill as a noun (slang):

    A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

  5. Pill as a noun (informal):

    A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.

  6. Pill as a noun (archaic, baseball, _, slang):

    A baseball.

  7. Pill as a noun (firearms, slang):

    A bullet (projectile).

  8. Pill as a noun (GUI):

    A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

  1. Pill as a verb (intransitive, textiles):

    Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

  2. Pill as a verb:

    To form into the shape of a pill.

    Examples:

    "Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists."

  3. Pill as a verb:

    To medicate with pills.

    Examples:

    "She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines."

  1. Pill as a verb (obsolete):

    To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

  2. Pill as a verb:

    To peel; to make by removing the skin.

  3. Pill as a verb:

    To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

  4. Pill as a verb (obsolete):

    To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

  1. Pill as a noun (obsolete):

    The peel or skin.

  1. Pill as a noun (now, _, UK, _, regional):

    An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

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