Ampoule vs Vail - What's the difference?
ampoule | vail |
A small hermetically sealed vial containing a sterile solution suitable for injection.
(obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.
* Chapman
(chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .
(obsolete) To yield.
* South
(obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between ampoule and vail
is that ampoule is a small hermetically sealed vial containing a sterile solution suitable for injection while vail is profit; return; proceeds.As a verb vail is
to yield.As a proper noun Vail is
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English
(wikipedia ampoule)Alternative forms
* ampul * ampuleNoun
(en noun)vail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
Aphetic form ofVerb
(en verb)- Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
- France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!
- without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic
- Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!