different between liquid vs embrocation

English

Etymology

From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from lique? (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (c?ns?n?ns), a calque of Ancient Greek ????? (????????) (hugròn (súmph?non), “liquid consonant”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?k'w?d, IPA^(key): /?l?kw?d/
• Hyphenation: liq?uid

Noun

liquid (countable and uncountable, plural liquids)

1. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.

   Coordinate terms: solid, gas

   Hyponyms: ideal liquid, non-ideal liquid

2. (phonetics) A class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.

   Hypernyms: approximant, consonant

   Coordinate term: glide

Usage notes

The differentiation of a liquid as an incompressible fluid is not strictly correct, experiments having shown that liquids are compressible to a very limited extent. See fluid.

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Translations

See also

• fluid

Adjective

liquid (comparative more liquid, superlative most liquid)

1. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.

2. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
3. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
4. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.

5. (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.

6. Fluid and transparent.

Synonyms

• (flowing freely like water): flowy, fluxive; see also Thesaurus:runny

Antonyms

• (flowing freely): solid; gaseous
• (easily sold): illiquid
• (having sufficient activity): illiquid

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Translations

Further reading

• liquid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• liquid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• liquid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Adjective

liquid

1. Alternative form of liquide

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin liquidus.

Adjective

liquid m (feminine singular liquida, masculine plural liquids, feminine plural liquidas)

1. liquid

Derived terms

• liquidar

Noun

liquid m (plural liquids)

1. liquid

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 607.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

embrocation (countable and uncountable, plural embrocations)

1. (obsolete) The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.
   • 1634, Philemon Holland (translator), The Historie of the World: commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, London, Book 26, Chapter 11, p. 260,^[1]

     The best cure of those who be in a frensie, is by sleepe: and that may be procured easily by the juice of Peucedanum & vineger together infused vpon the head by way of imbrocation, or by rubbing the same with it:

   • 1684, uncredited translator, Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences by Samuel Du Clos, London: Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, “Advertisements and Corollaries,” p. 121,^[2]

     The Observations of the Effects of these Waters on Persons who use them in Drinking, Bathing, Pumping, Washing, Embrocation, &c. are reserv’d for the Physicians, whose Duty it is to know the Particular Constitutions of those Persons, and the State of their Health Declining or Improving.

2. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 12,^[3]

     “Oh! my dear sir, her throat is so much better that I have hardly any uneasiness about it. Either bathing has been of the greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of Mr. Wingfield’s, which we have been applying at times ever since August.”

   • 1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, New York: Berkley, Chapter 25,

     You are hereby notified that my embrocations burn and tingle as if distilled from liquid flame. My medicines taste vilely, of cimiter, dogbane and gall: the body quickly returns to robust health so that it need assimilate no more of my foul concoctions! That is the secret of my success.

   • 2010, “Scrum deal: Warm up for the World Cup with a tour of New Zealand,” Daily Mail, 6 September, 2010,^[4]

     Here you can also stick your nose in a box and experience what a rugby changing room smells like—embrocation, I think they mean.

Related terms

• embrocate

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Noun

embrocation f (plural embrocations)

1. embrocation

Further reading

• “embrocation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).