acid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acidebor.
English acid
From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“to be sour”). Doublet of agita.
Inflected forms:
form: acider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: acidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: acids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
pos: adj
examples: acid fruits or liquors
gloss: Sour-tempered.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: His response was harsh and acid.
His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.
It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse.
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
gloss: Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
pos: adj
examples: acid soils
Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
gloss: Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
pos: adj
gloss: A sour substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
gloss: Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any corrosive substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
gloss: LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.
Synonyms: acidic
acid
Antonyms: alkaline
base
alkali
Related words: acetic
acerbic
acro-
pH
:Category:Acids
Derived words: acidaemia
acid amide
acid anhydride
acid attack
acid-base
acid-base pair
acid bomb
acid breaks
acid chloride
acidcore
acid dissociation constant
acid drop
acidemia
acidergic
acid-fastness
acid-free
acid house
acidimetre
acidimetric
acidimetry
acid indigestion
acidise
acidization
acidize
acid jazz
acidless
acid lime
acid mordant
acidness
acid number
acidocyte
acidogenesis
acidogenic
acidoid
acidolysis
acidometer
acidophil
acidophilia
acidophyte
acidopore
acidotropic
acid reflux
acid rock
acid snow
acid-stable
acid-tongued
acidulate
acidulous
aciduria
acid value
acid-wash
acid-washable
acid weed
acidy
acitretin
antacid
antiacid
biacid
conjugate acid-base pair
diacid
haloacid
hexacid
hydracid
hyperacid
hypoacid
isoacid
ketoacid
monacid
monoacid
niacin
nonacid
orthoacid
overacid
oxoacid
oxyacid
pentacid
peracid
peroxyacid
phenoxyacid
photoacid
polyacid
pyroacid
semiacid
skacid
subacid
sulfacid
sulfoacid
sulphoacid
superacid
tetraacid
tetracid
thermoacidophile
thioacid
triacid
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: acid
lang: Albanian
word: thartor
lang: Southern Altai
word: кычкыл
roman: kïčkïl
lang: Amharic
word: አሲድ
roman: ʾäsid
lang: Arabic
word: حَامِض
roman: ḥāmiḍ
lang: Arabic
word: حَمْض
roman: ḥamḍ
lang: Armenian
word: թթու
roman: tʻtʻu
lang: Asturian
word: ácidu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: turşu
lang: Basque
word: azido
lang: Belarusian
word: кіслата́
roman: kislatá
lang: Bengali
word: অম্ল
roman: omlo
lang: Bulgarian
word: киселина́
roman: kiseliná
lang: Burmese
word: အက်စစ်
roman: akcac
lang: Catalan
word: àcid
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 酸
roman: syun¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 酸
roman: suān
lang: Czech
word: kyselina
lang: Danish
word: syre
lang: Dutch
word: zuur
lang: Erzya
word: чапо
roman: čapo
lang: Esperanto
word: acido
lang: Estonian
word: hape
lang: Faroese
word: sýra
lang: Finnish
word: happo
lang: French
word: acide
lang: Friulian
word: acit
lang: Galician
word: ácido
lang: Georgian
word: მჟავა
roman: mžava
lang: German
word: Säure
lang: Greek
word: οξύ
roman: oxý
lang: Hawaiian
word: waiʻawa
lang: Hebrew
word: חוּמצָה
roman: khumtsá
lang: Hindi
word: तेज़ाब
roman: tezāb
lang: Hindi
word: अम्ल
roman: amla
lang: Hindi
word: तेजाब
roman: tejāb
lang: Hungarian
word: sav
lang: Icelandic
word: sýra
lang: Ido
word: acido
lang: Indonesian
word: asam
lang: Interlingua
word: acido
lang: Irish
word: aigéad
lang: Italian
word: acido
lang: Japanese
word: 酸
roman: san
lang: Kazakh
word: қышқыл
roman: qyşqyl
lang: Khmer
word: អាស៊ីត
roman: ʼaasiit
lang: Khmer
word: គីមីអាស៊ីត
roman: kiimii ʼaasiit
lang: Khmer
word: ទឹកអាស៊ីត
roman: tɨk ʼaasiit
lang: Korean
word: 산
roman: san
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: tirşe
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кислота
roman: kislota
lang: Lao
word: ກົດ
roman: kot
lang: Lao
word: ອາຊິດ
roman: ʼā sit
lang: Latin
word: acidum
lang: Latvian
word: skābe
lang: Lithuanian
word: rūgštis
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Saier
lang: Macedonian
word: киселина
roman: kiselina
lang: Malay
word: asid
lang: Malay
word: asam
lang: Malayalam
word: അമ്ലം
roman: amlaṁ
lang: Māori
word: waikawa
lang: Māori
word: kawa
lang: Māori
word: atiti
lang: Mongolian
word: хүчил
roman: xüčil
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: syre
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: syre
lang: Odia
word: ଅମ୍ଳ
roman: amḷa
lang: Pashto
word: تېزاب
roman: tezāb
lang: Pashto
word: زونځه
roman: zonjá
lang: Pashto
word: اسيډ
roman: asiḍ
lang: Dari
word: تیزَاب
roman: tēzāb
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اَسید
roman: asid
lang: Polish
word: kwas
lang: Portuguese
word: ácido
lang: Romanian
word: acid
lang: Russian
word: кислота́
roman: kislotá
lang: Sanskrit
word: अम्ल
roman: amla
lang: Sanskrit
word: आम्ल
roman: āmla
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: searbhag
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: киселѝна
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kiselìna
lang: Slovak
word: kyselina
lang: Slovene
word: kislina
lang: Spanish
word: ácido
lang: Swedish
word: syra
lang: Tagalog
word: asido
lang: Tajik
word: кислота
roman: kislota
lang: Tajik
word: ҳомуз
roman: homuz
lang: Telugu
word: ఆమ్లము
roman: āmlamu
lang: Thai
word: กรด
roman: gròt
lang: Tibetan
word: སྐྱུར་རྫས
roman: skyur rdzas
lang: Turkish
word: asit
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اكشی
roman: ekşi
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: حامض
roman: hamız
lang: Turkmen
word: kislota
lang: Ukrainian
word: кислота́
roman: kyslotá
lang: Urdu
word: تیزاب
roman: tezāb
lang: Urdu
word: حَمْض
roman: hamz
lang: Urdu
word: تُرْشَہ
roman: turśa
lang: Urdu
word: ایسِڈ
roman: esiḍ
lang: Uyghur
word: كىسلاتا
roman: kislata
lang: Uzbek
word: kislota
lang: Vietnamese
word: axit
lang: Vietnamese
word: axít
lang: Vietnamese
word: a-xít
lang: Volapük
word: züd
lang: Welsh
word: asid
lang: Yoruba
word: ásíìdì