different between fluent vs fluid

English

Etymology

Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of flu? (“I flow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?flu??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?flu?nt/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?flju??nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt

Adjective

fluent (comparative more fluent, superlative most fluent)

1. That flows; flowing, liquid.
2. (linguistics) Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.

Usage notes

In casual use, “fluency” refers to language proficiency broadly, while in narrow use it refers to using a language flowingly, rather than haltingly.

Synonyms

• (that flows): fluent; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny

Related terms

• fluency
• fluently

Translations

Noun

fluent (plural fluents)

1. (mathematics, obsolete) A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.

References

Anagrams

• netful, unfelt

Latin

Verb

fluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of flu?

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluens.

Adjective

fluent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fluent or fluente)

1. (of a liquid) flowing; that flows

Related terms

• fluer

Romanian

Etymology

From French fluent

Adjective

fluent m or n (feminine singular fluent?, masculine plural fluen?i, feminine and neuter plural fluente)

1. fluent

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin flu? (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flu??d/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?flju??d/
• Rhymes: -u??d

Noun

fluid (countable and uncountable, plural fluids)

1. Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
2. A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
   • 1992, Christopher G. Morris, Academic Press, Christopher W. Morris, Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Gulf Professional Publishing (?ISBN), page 854:

     fluid inclusion Petrology, a tiny fluid- or gas-filled cavity in an igneous rock. 1-100 micrometers in diameter, formed by the entrapment of a fluid, typically that from which the rock crystallized.

   • 2006, Jörg Fitter, Thomas Gutberlet, Neutron Scattering in Biology: Techniques and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 236:

     For studying interfaces between solid and another solid, fluid, or gas, a sample can be oriented with its reflecting surface(s) vertical (and with the scattering plane, as defined by nominal incident and reflected wavevectors, horizontal).

   • 2011, Andrew T Raftery, Michael S. Delbridge, Marcus J. D. Wagstaff, Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, International Edition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences (?ISBN), page 11:

     Tenderness: is the lump tender?

     Composition: is the mass solid, fluid or gas?

   • 2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 23:

     The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send the fluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fluid.
3. (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.

Derived terms

• amber fluid
• brake fluid
• fluid mechanics
• superfluid

Translations

Adjective

fluid (comparative more fluid, superlative most fluid)

1. (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
2. In a state of flux; subject to change.
3. Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
4. (of an asset) Convertible into cash.
5. (rare) Genderfluid.
   • 2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor (?ISBN), page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking):

     “Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.”

Synonyms

• (of or relating to fluid): fluidical, liquid; see also Thesaurus:fluidic
• (subject to change): unstable, variable; see also Thesaurus:changeable
• (moving smoothly): fluent, fluxive; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny

Translations

Related terms

• fluctuate
• fluctuation
• fluency
• fluent
• flux
• fluidal
• fluidic
• fluidics
• fluidify
• fluidise
• fluidize
• fluidity
• fluidous
• semifluid

References

Further reading

• fluid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fluid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fluid at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Adjective

fluid (feminine fluida, masculine plural fluids, feminine plural fluides)

1. fluid

Derived terms

• fluïdesa

Noun

fluid m (plural fluids)

1. fluid

Further reading

• “fluid” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fluid” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fluid” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fluid” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Adjective

fluid (not comparable)

1. fluid

Declension

Synonyms

• flüssig

Further reading

• “fluid” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fluid n (definite singular fluidet, indefinite plural fluid or fluider, definite plural fluida or fluidene)

1. a fluid

Synonyms

• væske

Derived terms

• fluidmekanikk

References

• “fluid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fluid n (definite singular fluidet, indefinite plural fluid, definite plural fluida)

1. a fluid

Synonyms

• væske

Derived terms

• fluidmekanikk

References

• “fluid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French fluide, from Latin fluidus.

Adjective

fluid m or n (feminine singular fluid?, masculine plural fluizi, feminine and neuter plural fluide)

1. fluid

Declension

Related terms

• fluiditate

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flûi?d/
• Hyphenation: flu?id

Noun

fl??d m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. fluid

Declension

Spanish

Verb

fluid

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of fluir.