different between solid vs sturdy

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 Middle English sturdy, stourdy, stordy (“bold, valiant, strong, stern, fierce, rebellious”) (perhaps influenced by Middle English sture, stoure, stor (“strong, robust, harsh, stern, violent, fierce, sturdy”); see English stour), from Old French estourdi (“dazed”), form of estourdir, originally “to daze, to make tipsy (almost drunk)” (Modern French étourdir (“to daze, to make tipsy”)), from Vulgar Latin *exturdire. Latin etymology is unclear – presumably it is ex- + turdus (“thrush (bird)”), but how this should mean “daze” is unclear. A speculative theory is that thrushes eat leftover winery grapes and thus became drunk, but this meets with objections.

Disease in cows and sheep is by extension of sense of “daze”, while sense of “strongly built” is of late 14th century, and relationship to earlier sense is less clear, perhaps from sense of a firm strike (causing a daze) or a strong, violent person.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st??di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?rdi/
• Rhymes: -??(r)di

Adjective

sturdy (comparative sturdier, superlative sturdiest)

1. Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong.
   • 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England

     He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy then dainty.

2. Solid in structure or person.

3. (obsolete) Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn.

   • This must be done, and I would fain see / Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay.

   • October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon

     A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps.

4. Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality.

Synonyms

• hardy

Translations

Noun

sturdy (uncountable)

1. A disease in sheep and cattle, caused by a tapeworm and marked by great nervousness or by dullness and stupor.

Synonyms

• gid

Derived terms

• sturdied

Translations

References

• sturdy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.