different between mammoth vs solid

English

Etymology

From obsolete Russian ??????? (mámant), modern ??????? (mámont), probably from a Uralic language, such as Proto-Mansi *m???-o?t (“earth-horn”). Compare Northern Mansi ??? (m?, “earth”), ????? (?n?t, “horn”). Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæm??/

Noun

mammoth (plural mammoths)

1. Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
2. (obsolete) A mastodon.
3. (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
   • 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil (page 46)

     That is a lot of ship, about the the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.

Translations

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ???????? (m?m??)
• ? Hebrew: ????????? (mamúta)
• ? Hindi: ???? (maimath)
• ? Japanese: ???? (manmosu)
• ? Khmer: ???????? (maammout)
• ? Korean: ??? (maemeodeu)
• ? Thai: ?????? (m?m-m???t)

Adjective

mammoth (comparative more mammoth, superlative most mammoth)

1. Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
   • 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),

     “Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”

   • 1999, Albert Isaac Slomovitz, The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History, New York University Press, page 103.

Synonyms

• (very large): colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, titanic
• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• mammoth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French solide (as an adjective), from Latin solidus (“solid”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, and sou.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: s?l'?d, IPA^(key): /?s?l?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?l?d/

Adjective

solid (comparative more solid, superlative most solid)

1. (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.

2. Large in size, quantity, or value.

   Synonyms: massive, substantial

3. Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
4. Strong or unyielding.
5. (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.

6. Hearty; filling.

7. Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
   • 1875-1886, J. A. Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The revival of learning

     The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.

8. Financially well off; wealthy.
9. Sound; not weak.

11. (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

    Synonyms: (as in closed compound) closed, closed up

    Coordinate terms: hyphenation (noun), writing as separate words (noun)

12. (printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
13. (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.

14. Of a single color throughout.

15. (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.

16. (dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.

17. (of volumes of materials) Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.

    Coordinate terms: loose, stacked

Hyponyms

• rock solid

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

solid (plural solids)

1. (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
2. (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
3. (informal) A favor.

   Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.

   I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
4. An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.

   I prefer solids over paisleys.

5. (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.

   The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.

Translations

Adverb

solid (comparative more solid, superlative most solid)

1. Solidly.
2. (not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.

   Many long-established compounds are set solid.

References

• solid at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• diols, idols, lidos, loids, sloid, soldi

Danish

Adjective

solid

1. solid, robust
2. strong
3. substantial

4. reliable

German

Alternative forms

• solide (both are roughly equally common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo?li?t/

Adjective

solid (comparative solider, superlative am solidesten)

1. solid

Declension

Further reading

• “solid” in Duden online

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solidus.

Adjective

solid m (feminine singular solida, masculine plural solids, feminine plural solidas)

1. solid

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 923.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?lid/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French solide, Latin solidus.

Adjective

solid m or n (feminine singular solid?, masculine plural solizi, feminine and neuter plural solide)

1. solid, firm

Synonyms

• tare

Related terms

• soliditate

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin solidus. Cf. also solz, possibly a doublet.

Noun

solid m (plural solizi)

1. a solidus (Roman gold coin)

Further reading

• solid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Adjective

solid

1. solid, massive, stable, reliable
2. solvent, in good financial standing

Declension

Related terms

• soliditet

Noun

solid c

1. (geometry) a solid body

Declension

Anagrams

• lodis