liquid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti
Proto-Italic *wlikʷēō
Latin liqueō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin liquidusbor.
Old French liquidebor.
Middle English liquide
English liquid
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: liquids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more liquid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most liquid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
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.
gloss: Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
[…]-able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […]
gloss: Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: liquid nitrogen
gloss: Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
pos: adj
gloss: Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
pos: adj
gloss: Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
pos: adj
examples: a liquid melody
gloss: Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
pos: adj
examples: /l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.
gloss: Fluid and transparent.
pos: adj
examples: the liquid air
Synonyms: liquid
fluid
fluxive
Antonyms: gas
solid
gaseous
illiquid
Related words: liquidate
liquidation
liquidizer
liquor
fluid
fluidic
:Category:Liquids
liquefiable
liquefy
liquidity
liquidous
liquify
Derived words: 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 dubstep
liquid ecstasy
liquid G
liquid gas
liquid glass
liquid gold
liquid helium
liquidise
liquidish
liquidize
liquid laugh
liquidless
liquid-like
liquidlike
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
non-Newtonian liquid
quantum spin liquid
semi liquid
semi-liquid
semiliquid
subliquid
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
unliquid
washing-up liquid
yellow cross liquid
liquid refreshment
liquid sky
liquid soap
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