Solid

Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.

Almost a quarter of a million copies is really a solid number for today's record industry. In fact, that number is more than the last two number one albums

Americans increased their borrowing by a solid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge

On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it.

solid chocolate

The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.

a solid foundation

As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.

He was covered in a fine mist by then, the night skies growing more saturated by the hour. It would be a nice, solid rain before long, he figured.

The ground above looked like it might give out again in a solid rain. The opposite bank promised even less. The river bent around acres of mud pocked with knots of grass and cattail spikes. I was tired. Despite the dangers of camping on such unstable ground, I dragged the canoe up the bank[…]

That's a solid plan.

Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.

I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.

Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”

a solid meal

the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer

Theſe are they, who wanting Wit, affect Gravity, and go by the name of Solid men: and a ſolid man is, in plain English, a ſolid, ſolemn Fool.

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.

a solid constitution of body

American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.

The delegation is solid for a candidate.

John painted the walls solid white.

He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.

[…] the other acquired unlimited power over a solid kingdom. It would be tedious, and not very instructive, to follow the details of German public law during the middle ages : nor are the more important parts of it easily separable […]

[…] a solid New England vote. Even with all New England for him, Mr. Olney could scarcely carry the convention, because he is still hated by the populist and the labor and socialist elements of his party.[…]

[…] we thus succeeded in making ourselves "solid with the administration" before we had been in a town or village forty-eight hours. The next steps in our plan of campaign were, first, to forestall suspicion in the minds of the[…]

I wanted to get solid with him for a time while he lived, but I believe he might have been worked into Paradise with half the scheming that was necessary before he deigned to look favorably upon me.

[Image of a man labelled 'League of Nations' pointing to a picture of a woman labelled 'Democracy Wilson'.] "If I can only get solid with her I stand a chance in this peace game." - The Passing Show (London).

The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.

Loose and undisciplined the soldier lay, / Or lost in drink and game the solid day; / Porches and schools , design'd for public good, / Uncover'd, and with scaffolds cumber'd stood, / Or nodded, threatening ruin- […]

A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.

"What have plane figures to do with solid orbits? Solid bodies ought to be used for solid orbits."

[…] the rules […] for measuring different superficial or solid figures will be found under the several heads: the two fundamental[…]

True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see!"

Hm-m-—These papers are complete—They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs—ought to put me in more solid than ever with Miss Effie—and that home is good graft.

Suppose, then, a whole family got sick with this flu, and no help around, and winter setting in solid and cold three weeks early?

set a new high in baseball for the year, not only ending speculation as to when Durocher would be fired but putting him in more solid than ever before.

She was telling Bobbie about the time when Boko Fittleworth was trying to ingratiate himself with your Uncle Percy, and you very sportingly offered to go and call your Uncle Percy a lot of offensive names, so that Boko, hovering outside the door, could come in and stick up for him, thus putting himself in solid with him.

If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.

Then he drew a long-barreled revolver from under a coat that he had thrown aside and examined it carefully to see that the powder and ball were in solid and that none of the caps was missing

Soichi Yamazaki, chief analyst at Fukoku Capital Management said Nidec Corp's (6594.OS) earnings came in more solid than expected on Friday

Many long-established compounds are set solid.

Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.

I owe him; he did me a solid last year.

Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me a solid.

You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job.

Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. "Thanks again, Thomas," I said, opening the door for him. "I owe you a solid."

I prefer solids over paisleys.

The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.