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vial

[ vahy-uhl, vahyl ]

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noun

Also 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.

to put into or keep in a vial.

vial

/ ˈvaɪəl; vaɪl /

noun

a less common variant of phial

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Origin of vial¹

1300–50; Middle English viole, variant of fiole phial

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Origin of vial¹

C14: fiole, from Old French, from Old Provençal fiola, from Latin phiala, from Greek ��󾱲��ŧ; see phial

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Idioms and Phrases

pour out vials of wrath, to wreak vengeance or express anger:
In her preface she pours out vials of wrath on her detractors.

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Then someone read my tweet and reached out - she had procured three vials for her father but he died before he could be given the doses.

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They’ll put the snow in a pottery bowl, then fill 125 small glass vials with the melted snow water.

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This seems like real digitization, unlike the oPhone’s vials of scent cartridges tagged to release the indicated smell.

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Empty medicine vials and dirty cardboard packets litter a far corner of the room where the wall is charred.

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Pharmaceutical companies recently introduced price caps on insulin after coming under scrutiny for charging hundreds of dollars per vial, which could be purchased in Canada for roughly one-tenth the price.

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