Pastille vs. Tablet — What's the Difference?

A pastille is a type of sweet or medicinal pill made of a thick liquid that has been solidified and is meant to be consumed by light chewing and allowing it to dissolve in the mouth. The term is also used to describe certain forms of incense.A pastille is also known as a troche, which is a medicated lozenge that dissolves like sweets.

A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription.

A small medicated or flavored tablet; a troche.

A thin sheet or leaf, used as a writing surface.

A tablet containing aromatic substances that is burned to fumigate or deodorize the air.

A set of such leaves fastened together, as in a book.

A pastel paste or crayon.

A pad of writing paper glued together along one edge.

An often round and somewhat flat flavoured candy or sweet.

A lightweight, portable computer having a touchscreen as the method by which data is input.

Any small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material; a tablet.

A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.

A small pellet containing aromatic substances, burned to diffuse a fragrance or to disinfect or fumigate.

A small flat cake of a prepared substance, such as soap.

(pharmacy)

To inscribe on a tablet.

(historical) A medicinal pill, originally made of compressed herbs.

To form into a tablet.

A candy- or sweet-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases substances that soothe a sore throat, and sometimes vapours to help unblock the nose or sinuses.

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

Nonstandard spelling of pastel

(religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.

A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat

A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.

(computing) A graphics tablet.

(computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.

(Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.

(rail) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

(transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

A small table or flat surface.

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

A kind of pocket memorandum book.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; - called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription

A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

A small flat compressed cake of some substance;

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet