lozenge

/ˈlɒzɪndʒ/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈlɑːzɪndʒ/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈlä-zᵊnj also -sᵊnj/ (ame, mw)

lozenge — noun

  • lozengesingular
  • lozengesplural

1. a small flat tablet, usually flavoured and containing medicine, that you keep in

1.名詞B2
釋義

a small flat tablet, usually flavoured and containing medicine, that you keep in your mouth and let melt slowly to soothe a cough or a sore throat

例句

Hamza bought a packet of honey-flavoured lozenges for his sore throat at the pharmacy.

collocation: throat lozenge / sore throat

The pharmacist told Élise to suck one lozenge every two hours, not chew them.

collocation: suck a lozenge (not chew)

同義詞
  • pastille

    near-synonym; often softer and fruit-flavoured, sometimes without medicine

  • troche

    technical pharmacy term for the same item; rare in everyday speech

  • cough drop

    American English equivalent for the medicated cough version

文法句型

a lozenge

throat lozenges

suck a lozenge

用法筆記

Typically countable and pluralised when sold in packets (a packet of lozenges). The verb 'suck' is the standard collocate; 'chew' is explicitly avoided in pharmacy instructions because the medicine is meant to release slowly.

常見錯誤

❌I chewed two lozenges for my cough.
✅I sucked two lozenges for my cough.
💡lozenges are meant to dissolve in the mouth, so the natural verb is 'suck', not 'chew'.
❌a throat pill' (meaning a sweet you suck).
✅a throat lozenge.
💡'pill' suggests something you swallow whole; a lozenge stays in the mouth.

2. a flat four-sided figure standing on one of its corners, where two opposite angl

2.名詞C1
釋義

a flat four-sided figure standing on one of its corners, where two opposite angles are wider than 90 degrees and the other two are narrower; the shape of a diamond on a playing card

例句

The window above the door was cut into a small lozenge with leaded edges.

noun in main clause: 'cut into a lozenge'

Imani drew a row of green lozenges across the top of her notebook.

pattern: a row of lozenges (decorative pattern)

同義詞
  • rhombus

    geometry term; specifically a parallelogram with four equal sides

  • diamond

    everyday word for the same shape; far more common in casual English

文法句型

a lozenge shape

in the shape of a lozenge

lozenge pattern

用法筆記

Distinguish from sense 1 (the medicated sweet): this geometric sense is mostly used in heraldry, design, and mathematics, and is far less common in everyday speech than 'diamond' or 'rhombus'. In British heraldry, a lozenge is specifically a rhombus standing on one of its points.

常見錯誤

❌a lozenge with all four angles equal
✅a square' or 'a rhombus with equal angles
💡a lozenge has TWO pairs of unequal angles, not four equal ones.
❌The kite was shaped like a lozenge' (when meaning a regular diamond).
✅The kite was shaped like a diamond.
💡in casual English, 'diamond' is more natural for everyday objects; reserve 'lozenge' for formal or decorative contexts.