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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

English

Etymology

From Latin d?rig?ns, present participle of d?rig?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.?.d??nt/

Noun

dirigent (plural dirigents)

1. (now chiefly biochemistry) Something that or someone who directs; a director or guide.
   • 2011, Florence Gleason, Raymond Chollet, Plant Biochemistry, page 133,

     The monolignol substrates are held in position by proteins called dirigents (guide proteins). […] Lignan dirigent proteins are found in the cytoplasm, but similar dirigents have been localized in the cell walls of some plants.

   • 1905, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, Volume 68, page 887,

     One of its members is deputed in rotation to maintain continuous contact with the director or dirigents of the hospital by means of biweekly, if necessary daily, visits to the institution.

2. (dated, geometry) The line of motion of a describent line or surface that in so moving defines a plane or solid figure; a directrix.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hutton to this entry?)

   • 1877, James Booth, A Treatise on Some New Geometrical Methods, page 348,

     The straight line in which the vertical polar plane cuts the plane of the circle of contact is called the dirigent. As there are in general two circles of contact, there are two dirigents, and they are parallel to the diretrices.

   • 1891, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 21, page 308,

     In this case, to which Sphero-Cartesians, and all other sphero-quadrics, whose dirigents are small circles, are analogous in Spherics, the dirigent conic F must also have double contact with S.

Adjective

dirigent (not comparable)

1. That directs.
   • 17thC, Richard Baxter, The Life of Faith, 1838, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, Volume 3, page 690,

     6. God must then be known in his three personalities; as the Father, the Word or Son, and the Spirit.

     7. And these in their three causalities; efficient, dirigent, and final.

   • 17thC, Richard Baxter, Mr. Baxter's Dying Thoughts, 1838, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, Volume 3, page 1012,

     V. I shall better know the methods and perfections of the Scripture, and all God's dirigent word and will.

See also

• dirigible

Anagrams

• ingirted

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /di.?i??ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /di.?i??en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.?i?d??ent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

dirigent m (plural dirigents)

1. leader

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?r???nt]

Noun

dirigent m

1. (music) A conductor

Related terms

• See režim
• dirigovat

Further reading

• dirigent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• dirigent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

dirigent c (singular definite dirigenten, plural indefinite dirigenter)

1. (music) a conductor

References

• “dirigent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rig?ns, present participle of d?rig? (“I direct”). The sense “conductor” was probably borrowed from German Dirigent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.ri???nt/
• Hyphenation: di?ri?gent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

dirigent m (plural dirigenten, diminutive dirigentje n)

1. A conductor, person who musically directs an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble
2. (figuratively) A director, person pulling the strings

Derived terms

Related terms

• dirigeren

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: dirigen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.?i.???/

Verb

dirigent

1. third-person plural present indicative of diriger
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of diriger

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?di?.ri.?ent/, [?d?i?????n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?di.ri.d??ent/, [?d?i??id???n?t?]

Verb

d?rigent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of d?rig?

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From German Dirigent, from Latin d?rig?ns, present participle of d?rig?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ir?i????nt/

Noun

dirigent m (feminine equivalent dirigentka)

1. conductor (person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble)

Declension

Further reading

• dirigent in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dirigent m (definite singular dirigenten, indefinite plural dirigenter, definite plural dirigentene)

1. (music) a conductor

Derived terms

• kordirigent

Related terms

• dirigere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dirigent m (definite singular dirigenten, indefinite plural dirigentar, definite plural dirigentane)

1. (music) a conductor

Derived terms

• kordirigent

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dir??ent/
• Hyphenation: di?ri?gent

Noun

dirìgent m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. conductor (music)

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diri???nt/

Noun

dirig?nt m anim (female equivalent dirigêntka)

1. conductor, person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble

Inflection

Further reading

• “dirigent”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

dirigent c

1. conductor (person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble)

Declension

Related terms

• dirigera