different between liquidizer vs liquid

English

Alternative forms

• liquidiser

Etymology

liquidize +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

liquidizer (plural liquidizers)

1. (Australia, India, Britain) A machine to chop or puree food; a blender.
   • 1976, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, volume 3, issues 1-3, page 154:

     […] tissue was disrupted using a Moulinex liquidizer and 0-5% bovine serum albumin was added to the isolating and resuspending media.

   • 2013, Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories ?ISBN:

     She bought herself a second-hand Mini and in no time at all was busy as a bee, driving herself around London with pots and pans, cooking knives and liquidizers all piled up on the back seat.

   • 2013, Leah Leneman, The Tofu Cookbook: Over 150 quick and easy recipes ?ISBN

     Place a cupful of the soaked beans in a liquidizer, add a cupful of cold water and blend.

Usage notes

• In Australia and India, the term may be uncommon, technical or dated.
• The term is found in some technical and trade publications in the US; it may be dated.

Quotations

• 2000, Eric Morris, Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II ?ISBN, page 145:

  By now Erickson, like so many of the pilots, was flying without oxygen. The liquidizers and compressor plant had been early casualties of war at Nichols Field. Instead they flew on a mixture of quinine and atropine.

Synonyms

• blender (US)
• vitamiser, vitamizer (Australia)

Related terms

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidation
• liquidator
• liquidity
• liquor

Translations

See also

• food processor
• mixer

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.

Related terms

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

Related terms

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.