Is this a tub, a box, a bottle? Or is there a better word for it?
(source: tesco.com)
Unfortunately, the product page at tesco.com doesn't say what the tablets come in - only that frying information isn't applicable... ;-)
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(source: tesco.com)
Unfortunately, the product page at tesco.com doesn't say what the tablets come in - only that frying information isn't applicable... ;-)
Seeing as it's medicinal in nature, I'd say it was a bottle, or more specifically, a pill bottle.
If it were a liquid medicine on the other hand, I'd refer to it as a vial.
If I were to be more generic, I'd simply refer to it as a container.
Edit: This is a container for another, similar Tesco supplement (in this case it's a multivitamin container)
The manufacturer refers to the container as a bottle.
I would use the rather generic word "container".
This doesn't have the characteristic form of a "bottle" (it has no neck). "Jar" is associated with an airtight sealed container. "Pot" suggest ceramics. "Vial" holds liquid. Can or canister suggests an airtight metal container.
So one is forced back a generic term like "container". I've found Pharmaceutical Containers sold wholesale.
In conversation I'd avoid referring directly to the container:
Can you get some vitamin pills from the supermarket?
(rather than "a container of vitamin pills)
I'd only use "container" when referring specifically to the packaging.
The pills come in a plastic container, which is less fragile than glass.
To me (Russian) it's definitely a 'can', not a 'bottle' or a 'tub'.
But if we speak about medicine it could really be a pill bottle, pharmacy bottle, or a pill container.
It could also be a jar, maybe. Plastic jar. I don't agree with vial, even a plastic one, since I haven't found any images of a vial looking something similar to the given image.
A technical term for this shape of container is "canister". A Google image search for "canister" produces many images of containers that are approximately the same shape.
Identified by vendor as: TC Max 500 gram Canister
In a pharmacy this bottle holds medication such as tablets and capsules and they are called amber bottles.