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Liquid
Definitions
- 1 Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure. physical
"liquid nitrogen"
- 2 Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- 3 Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- 4 Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
"a liquid melody"
- 5 Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
"/l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants."
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- 6 Fluid and transparent.
"the liquid air"
- 1 clear and bright wordnet
- 2 in cash or easily convertible to cash wordnet
- 3 smooth and unconstrained in movement wordnet
- 4 smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness wordnet
- 5 changed from a solid to a liquid state wordnet
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- 6 existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow wordnet
- 7 filled or brimming with tears wordnet
- 1 A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid. countable, physical, uncountable
"A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas."
- 2 a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially ‘l’ and ‘r’) wordnet
- 3 Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. countable, uncountable
"Many female forenames are regarded as euphonyms. What is and is not euphonious is necessarily subjective, but it could be suggested that names containing labials (b, m), sibilants (s, sh) and liquids (l, r) are more likely to be euphonyms than those that do not."
- 4 the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility wordnet
- 5 fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume wordnet
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- 6 a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
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