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solid
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)
- (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.
- Large in size, quantity, or value.
- Synonyms: massive, substantial
- Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
- Strong or unyielding.
- (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- Hearty; filling.
- 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.
- 1875-1886, J. A. Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The revival of learning
- Financially well off; wealthy.
- Sound; not weak.
- (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)
- (printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
- (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
- Of a single color throughout.
- (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
- (dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
- (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)
- (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).
- (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- (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.
- An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
- I prefer solids over paisleys.
- (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)
- Solidly.
- (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
- solid, robust
- strong
- substantial
- reliable
German
Alternative forms
- solide (both are roughly equally common)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zo?li?t/
Adjective
solid (comparative solider, superlative am solidesten)
- 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)
- 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)
- solid, firm
Synonyms
- tare
Related terms
- soliditate
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin solidus. Cf. also solz, possibly a doublet.
Noun
solid m (plural solizi)
- 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
- solid, massive, stable, reliable
- solvent, in good financial standing
Declension
Related terms
- soliditet
Noun
solid c
- (geometry) a solid body
Declension
Anagrams
- lodis
solid From the web:
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specific
English
Alternative forms
- specifick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speci?s (“kind”) + faci? (“make”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, UK) IPA(key): /sp??s?f.?k/, /sp??s?f.?k/
- Rhymes: -?f?k
- Hyphenation: spe?cif?ic
Adjective
specific (comparative more specific, superlative most specific)
- explicit or definite
- (sciences) pertaining to a species
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:
- Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:
- (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
- special, distinctive or unique
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- a highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptoms
- being a remedy for a particular disease
- Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
- (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
- (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
Synonyms
- (explicit, definite): express, monosemous, unambiguous; see also Thesaurus:explicit
- (special, distinctive or unique): singular; see also Thesaurus:unique
- (intended for a particular thing): peculiar, singular; see also Thesaurus:specific
Antonyms
- unspecific, nonspecific
- (intended for a particular thing): broad, general, generic, universal; see also Thesaurus:generic
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- generic
Noun
specific (plural specifics)
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- Specification
- (in the plural) The details; particulars.
Further reading
- specific in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- specific in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- specific at OneLook Dictionary Search
Romanian
Etymology
From French spécifique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spe?t??i.fik/
Adjective
specific m or n (feminine singular specific?, masculine plural specifici, feminine and neuter plural specifice)
- specific
- Antonym: nespecific
Declension
Related terms
- specificitate
specific From the web:
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- what are military tactics
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