different between almid vs algid

English

Noun

almid (plural almids)

1. (zoology) Any annelid worm of the family Almidae.

Anagrams

• MALDI

English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin algidus (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?l?j?d, IPA^(key): /?æl.d??d/

Adjective

algid (comparative more algid, superlative most algid)

1. (medicine) Cold, chilly; used of low body temperature especially in connection with certain diseases such as malaria and cholera.
   • 1875 March 15, J. C. Morgan, More on Typho-Malarial Fever, United States Medical Investigator, New Series, Volume 1, No. 6, page 261,

     […] with cold sweat, blueness, stupidity, no heat, no sort of reaction or remission, intense venous congestion in divers organs, getting steadily worse and worse, more and more algid, wet, and stupid, with death in thirty-six hours.

   • 2002, Eduardo Ibarro-Caldo, Chapter 8: Organizational paradoxes and business ethics: In search of new modes of existence, Stewart Clegg (editor), Management and Organization Paradoxes, page 268,

     The coldest, most algid moments of this savage industrialization, commanded by the Robber Barons (Josephson 1962), were featured in a recent book on the expansionary experience of the railroads, which by 1900, had already built 193,000 miles of track:

Derived terms

• algidity

Translations

Further reading

• “algid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Lagid

Estonian

Noun

algid

1. nominative plural of alk

Livonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?id/

Verb

algid

1. second person plural imperative form of the negation verb
   • Ren?te Blumberga, Tapio Mäkeläinen, Karl Pajusalu (2013), L?bieši: v?sture, valoda un kult?ra, R?ga: L?võ Kult?r sid?m, ?ISBN

     algid ?ndagid!

     don't give!

     algid likkõgid!

     don't move!

See also

• äb-
• äb
• äd
• ät
• izt
• iz
• al?
• algõ
• algõm
• algõd

Romanian

Etymology

From French algide

Adjective

algid m or n (feminine singular algid?, masculine plural algizi, feminine and neuter plural algide)

1. algid

Declension

Related terms

• algiditate