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liquid
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)
- 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
- (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.
Related terms
Translations
See also
- fluid
Adjective
liquid (comparative more liquid, superlative most liquid)
- Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
- (phonology) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
- 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
- Alternative form of liquide
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin liquidus.
Adjective
liquid m (feminine singular liquida, masculine plural liquids, feminine plural liquidas)
- liquid
Derived terms
- liquidar
Noun
liquid m (plural liquids)
- liquid
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 607.
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ichor
English
Etymology
Sense 1 (“liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods”) is borrowed from Medieval Latin ichor, from Ancient Greek ????? (?kh?r, “fluid running through the veins of gods, ichor; watery part of blood, lymph, serum; watery part of milk, whey; gravy; pus; naphtha”); further etymology unknown, probably from Pre-Greek.
Sense 2.4 (“fetid, watery discharge from a sore”) is from Middle English icor, icore [and other forms], from Medieval Latin ichor; see further above.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?a?k??/, /-k?/, /??k?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?a?k??/
Noun
ichor (countable and uncountable, plural ichors)
- (Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods. [from late 17th c.]
- (by extension)
- (chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma.
- (chiefly poetic, figuratively) A blood-like fluid.
- (geology, archaic) A fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite.
- (pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.
- Synonym: sanies
- (chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma.
Derived terms
- ichorhaemia, ichorhemia, ichorrhaemia (dated)
- ichoroid
- ichorous
- petrichor
Translations
References
Further reading
- ichor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- chiro, chiro-, choir, chori
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