[ UK /ˈæsɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈæsəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being sour to the taste
  2. having the characteristics of an acid
    an acid reaction
  3. harsh or corrosive in tone
    bitter words
    an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose
    caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics
    blistering criticism
    a sulfurous denunciation
    her acrid remarks make her many enemies
    a vitriolic critique
    a barrage of acid comments
NOUN
  1. any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
  2. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
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How To Use acid In A Sentence

  • The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • Poly-L-lactic acid is the same material used in absorbable sutures and offers an excellent safety profile. Archive 2004-11-01
  • The authors of the second paper admit that “other variables … influence the binding avidity (preference), such as type of SA (sialic acid of the receptor site) and glycosylation and sialylation of the hemagglutinin close to the receptor binding site. ” These factors all vary obviously and there are other variables in the equation as well including the status of specific areas of the immune system. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
  • A reduced short chain fatty acid concentration has also been reported in pouch contents from patients with pouchitis compared with those without.
  • In some cases, the vomited milk may smell curdled because it has mixed with stomach acid.
  • It also discusses the harm in detail according to the comparison of acid gases between different. the research provides selection of fire-extinguishing agents in terms of harms.
  • To acidify soil, sprinkle two tablespoons of aluminum phosphate or sulfur around the shrubs in early fall.
  • On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose.
  • Primary sporocysts were obtained after overnight axenic culture of miracidia as described.
  • The blue and red boxes indicate the amino acid changes associated with the andromonoecious phenotype in melon and cucumber, respectively. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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