different between solid vs hexahydrate

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

hexa- +? hydrate

Noun

hexahydrate (plural hexahydrates)

1. (chemistry) A hydrate whose solid contains six molecules of water of crystallization per molecule, or per unit cell

Related terms

• hexahydrated