liquid vs solid
Definitions
adjective
- existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
- clear and bright
- filled or brimming with tears
- changed from a solid to a liquid state
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
noun
- a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')
- fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
- a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
Examples
By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol.
The potatoes will absorb any excess liquid overnight.
If it is too hot, the liquid will evaporate not absorb.
Definitions
adjective
- financially sound
- impenetrable for the eye
- having three dimensions
- providing abundant nourishment
- of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
noun
- a three-dimensional shape
- the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
- matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
Examples
A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth.
Supporting characters with their own solid fan base is a bit of a scifi phenomena and Atlantis is the poster child for this kind of fannish behavior.
These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
