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towering
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?????/
Verb
towering
- present participle of tower
Adjective
towering (comparative more towering, superlative most towering)
- Very tall or high, so as to dwarf anything around it.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 1964, Look (volume 28, page 338)
- She is a towering girl with a husky baritone voice and a friendly and flamboyant style.
Translations
Noun
towering (plural towerings)
- The act or condition of being high above others.
- 1787, Robert Burns, letter to a friend
- But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings, pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.
- 1787, Robert Burns, letter to a friend
See also
- tower over
- towering inferno
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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
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