liquid
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liquere (“to be liquid, be fluid”).
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Noun [edit]
liquid (countable and uncountable; plural liquids)
- (physics) 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.
- A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
- (phonetics) An l or r sound.
- 1999, Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity (page 86)
- […] -able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […]
- 1999, Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity (page 86)
Usage notes [edit]
The differentiation of a liquid as an incompressible fluid is not strictly correct, experiment having shown that liquids are compressible to a very limited extent. See fluid.
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Translations [edit]
substance that is liquid
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l or r sound
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Adjective [edit]
liquid (comparative more liquid, superlative most liquid)
- Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- liquid nitrogen
- (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
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Translations [edit]
fluid; not solid and not gaseous
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(of an asset) easily sold or disposed of
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(of a market) having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
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External links [edit]
- liquid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- liquid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911