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Viol vs Vial - What's the difference?

viol | vial |

As nouns the difference between viol and vial

is that viol is a viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments while vial is a glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.

As verbs the difference between viol and vial

is that viol is to play the viol while vial is to put or keep in, or as in, a vial.

viol

English

(wikipedia viol)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play the viol.
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
    • “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing , and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing
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    vial

    English

    (vial)

    Alternative forms

    * phial

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Take thou this vial , being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor thou off.

    Synonyms

    * ampoule * test tube * vacutainer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put or keep in, or as in, a vial.

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