solid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒl.ɪd/
enpr: sŏ'lĭd
ipa: /ˈsɑ.lɪd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒlɪd
Forms: form: more solid
form: solider
form: most solid
form: solidest
Etymology: From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu.
Senses: examples: text: Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
glosses: That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
raw_tags: of an object or substance
examples: text: 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
ref: 2015 July 8, “Rapper Meek Mill Charts His First Number One Album”, in Forbes:
text: Americans increased their borrowing by a solid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge
ref: 2018 November 7, “Consumer borrowing up solid $10.9 billion in September”, in Journal Record:
text: On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it.
ref: 2018 November 7, Christian de Looper, “The best Google Assistant smart speakers you can buy”, in Business Insider:
synonyms: massive
substantial
glosses: Large in size, quantity, or value.
examples: text: solid gold
text: solid chocolate
text: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
examples: text: a solid foundation
text: 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.
ref: 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Strong or unyielding.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011 April 1, J.N. Duncan, Deadworld, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
text: 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[…]
ref: 2015 May 1, Patrick Dobson, Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Continuous and heavy.
raw_tags: of rain
examples: text: That's a solid plan.
text: Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.
text: I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
glosses: Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
examples: text: a solid meal
glosses: Hearty; filling.
examples: text: the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, “[https://archive.org/details/aurengzebetraged00dryd_0/page/n13/mode/1up To the Right Honourable, John, Earl of Mulgrave, […]]”, in Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC:
text: 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.
glosses: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
glosses: Financially well off; wealthy.
examples: text: a solid constitution of body
glosses: Sound; not weak.
examples: text: American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: word: closed
english: as in [[closed compound]]
translation: as in [[closed compound]]
word: closed up
coordinate_terms: hyphenation
glosses: Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
examples: text: The delegation is solid for a candidate.
topics: government
politics
glosses: United; without division; unanimous.
examples: text: John painted the walls solid white.
text: He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
glosses: Of a single color throughout.
examples: text: […] 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 […]
ref: 1853, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, page 203:
text: […] 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.[…]
ref: 1904, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work, page 4389:
glosses: United.
examples: text: […] 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[…]
ref: 1891, George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System, page 306:
text: 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.
ref: 1895, Outing, page 64:
text: [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).
ref: 1919, Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World, page 19:
glosses: Intimately allied or friendly with.
examples: text: The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
glosses: Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
raw_tags: of drawn lines
examples: text: 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- […]
ref: 1822 [1718?], Matthew Prior, The Poems of Matthew Prior ..., page 253:
glosses: Entire, complete.
raw_tags: of time
examples: text: A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
text: "What have plane figures to do with solid orbits? Solid bodies ought to be used for solid orbits."
ref: 1841, David Brewster, The Martyrs of Science: Or, The Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler, page 209:
text: […] the rules […] for measuring different superficial or solid figures will be found under the several heads: the two fundamental[…]
ref: 1861, Charles Knight, The English Cyclopaedia: Cyclopaedia of arts and sciences, page 669:
glosses: Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
coordinate_terms: loose
stacked
glosses: Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
raw_tags: of volumes of materials
Hyponyms: rock solid
Derived terms: booked solid
half-solid
on solid ground
quasi-solid
semi-solid
solid angle
solid as a rock
solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
solid compound
solid-drawn
solid emulsion
solid hydrogen
solidity
solidly
solid model
solid phase
solid rocket
solid shot
solid slug
solid sol
solid solution
solid-state
solid state
solid-state device
solid-state drive
solid syllabub
solid torus