liquid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭk'wĭd
ipa: /ˈlɪkwɪd/
rhymes: -ɪkwɪd
Forms: form: liquids
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”).
Senses: examples: text: A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: solid
gas
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1996, Adrian Room, An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies, page 41:
text: […]-able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […]
ref: 1999, Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity, page 86:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
hypernyms: approximant
consonant
coordinate_terms: glide
glosses: Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
Synonyms: word: liquid
word: fluid
Hypernyms: word: substance
Hyponyms: word: water
word: mercury
word: milk
word: oil
word: petroleum
word: beverage
Derived terms: amber liquid
bioliquid
bulk liquid
cashew nutshell liquid
cryogenic liquid
dish liquid
dishwashing liquid
Dutch liquid
e-liquid
fairy liquid
ferroelectric liquid-crystal display
gas-liquid chromatography
high-performance liquid chromatography
high-pressure liquid chromatography
ionic liquid
liquidability
liquidable
liquid air
liquid ammonia
liquid asset
liquid bandage
liquid bomb
liquid bread
liquid cosh
liquid courage
liquid crystal
liquid crystal display
liquid democracy
liquid diet
liquid document
liquid ecstasy
liquid G
liquid gas
liquid glass
liquid gold
liquid helium
liquidise
liquidish
liquidize
liquid laugh
liquidless
liquidlike
liquid-like
liquid lunch
liquidly
liquid measure
liquid mirror
liquid mirror telescope
liquid natural gas
liquidness
liquid nitrogen
liquidogenous
liquid oxygen
liquid paper
liquid paraffin
liquid phase
liquid rocket
liquid sandpaper
liquid scintillation
liquid scintillation counter
liquid smoke
liquid state machine
liquid sunshine
liquid water
liquid X
liquidy
loxygen
Luttinger liquid
nanoliquid
natural gas liquid
nonliquid
quantum spin liquid
semi-liquid
semiliquid
semi liquid
subliquid
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
unliquid
washing-up liquid
yellow cross liquid
Related terms: word: liquidate
word: liquidation
word: liquidizer
word: liquor
word: fluid
word: fluidic
word: :Category:Liquids