vial  /ˈvaɪ əl/ ? Meaning of "vial"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)

Synonym(s)

Usage(s):

  1. The glass vial was small enough to tuck into a leather satchel or slip into his luggage, nearly invisible beside his books, his socks and his eight extra pairs of eyeglasses.
  2. Far out into the yard, he flung the vial.
  3. Tom's friend Sara quickly pulls a glass vial from her bra.

Quotes

  1. "I wish I could have turned in the vial for testing," Palmeiro said of the vial he used, "but when I found out, it was long gone and I couldn't come up with it. If something happened that I'm not aware of, an intentional act by someone else,...
    on Dec 27, 2005 By: Rafael Palmeiro Source: New York Times

  2. "If an al-Qaeda group managed to throw a vial of anthrax or ricin into the chamber - or maybe even worse a suicide agent released it, without anybody noticing, which we have been advised is quite feasible - the particles would immediately begin...
    on May 19, 2004 By: Peter Hain Source: Sydney Morning Herald

  3. "Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam," Bush said in his State of the Union message last year, before the war. "It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to...
    on Jun 16, 2004 By: President Bush Source: Newsday

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