[
UK
/flˈuːɪd/
]
[ US /ˈfɫuəd, ˈfɫuɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫuəd, ˈfɫuɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
affording change (especially in social status)
upwardly mobile
Britain is not a truly fluid society
upwardly mobile -
smooth and unconstrained in movement
the fluid motion of a cat
the liquid grace of a ballerina
a long, smooth stride -
in cash or easily convertible to cash
liquid (or fluid) assets -
subject to change; variable
everything was unstable following the coup
a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty - characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape
NOUN
- a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure
- continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas
How To Use fluid In A Sentence
- The excess amniotic fluid was then removed from the recipient twin sac, and antibiotics were placed into the uterine cavity to decrease the risk of infection. Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
- The total energy that the patient absorbs everyday (include food and dialytic fluid) , 50% come from carbohydrate, 30% come from adipose, 20% come from protein.
- This will involve placing a small rubber tube called a catheter in the abscess to drain out the fluid.
- The fluid was sucked from his lungs.
- A separable reinforced concrete numerical model and fluid-solid interconnection method were used to predict the development of surface bulge in LS-DYNA.
- The presence of small lymphocytes in serous cavity fluid can pose great difficulty in the differentiation between a low-grade lymphoproliferative disorder and reactive lymphocytosis.
- Dysphagic patients should be fed through a nasogastric tube or percutaneous endoscopic feeding tube until it is safe to resume oral food and fluids.
- All doctors have been doused in a variety of bodily fluids. Times, Sunday Times
- In the cephalopoda (as also in the crustacea) the same passage serves to void the excrement and leads to the part like a uterus, for the male discharges the seminal fluid through this passage. On the Generation of Animals
- In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
