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acid
English
Etymology
From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from ace? (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?s'?d, IPA(key): /?æs.?d/
- Hyphenation: a?cid
- Rhymes: -æs?d
Adjective
acid (comparative more acid, superlative most acid)
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,
- His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:acid.
Synonyms
- acidic
Antonyms
- alkaline
- base
Derived terms
- acid rock
- acid jazz
- acid house
Translations
Noun
acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)
- A sour substance.
- (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:
- Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
- Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
Antonyms
- alkali
- base
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:acid
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- acerbic
- acro-
- pH
References
- acid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- -adic, Daic, adic, cadi, caid
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a?t??id]
Adjective
acid m or n (feminine singular acid?, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)
- acid, acidic
Declension
Related terms
- aciditate
Noun
acid m (plural acizi)
- acid
Declension
Derived terms
- acid dezoxiribonucleic
Further reading
- acid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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currish
English
Etymology
From cur +? -ish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?????/
Adjective
currish (comparative more currish, superlative most currish)
- Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
- (now rare) Ignoble, mean-spirited.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.4:
- more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i[1]:
- Gratiano:
- O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
- And for thy life let justice be accused.
- Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
- To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
- That souls of animals infuse themselves
- Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
- Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
- Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
- And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
- Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
- Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.4:
Synonyms
- doggish
Anagrams
- cirrhus
currish From the web:
- what currish meaning
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