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What is the difference between pill and tablet?
Maybe what the shape is?and ...?
Jul 6, 2013 9:08 AM
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"Pill" is a more general term. It can be either a capsule or a tablet.
July 6, 2013
1
If you're talking about medicine, a pill is a round and oval capsule, and a tablet is flat and circular.
July 6, 2013
Christopher's answer is the only correct answer. In British English, we say 'tablet' more often.
July 7, 2013
Pills are small solid "round" masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow "without chewing". A tablet is a small solid mass of medicine which you swallow.
July 6, 2013
Pill is a single round capsule while tablet is a a collection of pills in a pack
July 6, 2013
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