fluid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin fluidusder.
Middle English fluid
English fluid
From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-, but is distantly related from English bleat.
Inflected forms:
form: fluids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more fluid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fluid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
gloss: A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: fluid inclusion Petrology, a tiny fluid- or gas-filled cavity in an igneous rock. 1-100 micrometers in diameter, formed by the entrapment of a fluid, typically that from which the rock crystallized.
The Doctor: Get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluids. / Kes: Fluids? / The Doctor: Everybody should drink plenty of fluids.
For studying interfaces between solid and another solid, fluid, or gas, a sample can be oriented with its reflecting surface(s) vertical (and with the scattering plane, as defined by nominal incident and reflected wavevectors, horizontal).
Tenderness: is the lump tender?
Composition: is the mass solid, fluid or gas?
The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send the fluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank.
gloss: Intravenous fluids.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
specifically
uncountable
gloss: Of or relating to fluid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In a state of flux; subject to change.
pos: adj
examples: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
gloss: Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
pos: adj
examples: Tom of the fluid pelvis, undulating about the living room in defiance of Michael's taboo on sensuality.
gloss: Convertible into cash.
pos: adj
gloss: Genderfluid.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.
As do renewals in genres such as romcoms and teen movies, which have updated sexist, heteronormative tropes to reflect audiences’ fluid, inclusive, queer realities.
Synonyms: liquid
variable
fluxive
runny
Related words: fluctuate
fluctuation
fluency
fluent
fluidal
fluidic
fluidics
fluidify
fluidise
fluidity
fluidize
fluidous
flux
semifluid
Derived words: amber fluid
amniotic fluid
amniotic fluid embolism
base fluid
biofluid
blinker fluid
bodily fluid
body fluid
brain fluid
brake fluid
Carrel-Dakin fluid
cerebrospinal fluid
cleaning fluid
computational fluid dynamics
corflu
correcting fluid
correction fluid
Cowper's fluid
cryofluid
cutting fluid
dark fluid
diesel exhaust fluid
drilling fluid
elastofluid
embalming fluid
ferrofluid
fluidarity
fluid-bonded
fluid-bound
fluid drachm
fluid dynamics
fluid-elastic
fluid feeder
fluidglycerate
fluidification
fluidiform
fluid intelligence
fluidisation
fluidism
fluidist
fluidless
fluidlike
fluid loading
fluid measure
fluid mechanics
fluid ounce
fluidram
fluidynamics
fog fluid
gargling fluid
gender-fluid
geofluid
gyrofluid
headlight fluid
hydraulic fluid
interstitial fluid
inviscid fluid
lacrimal fluid
lighter fluid
magnetofluid
magnetorheological fluid
menstrual fluid
microfluid
multifluid
nanofluid
nano-fluid
Newtonian fluid
nonfluid
non-Newtonian fluid
palaeofluid
paleofluid
Pasteur's fluid
penetrating fluid
pericardial fluid
pseudofluid
roughing fluid
seminal fluid
serofluid
spinal fluid
starting fluid
subfluid
supercritical fluid
superfluid
synovial fluid
tear fluid
thermofluid
thread-locking fluid
transmission fluid
vaginal fluid
vitreous fluid
fluid flywheel
fluidly
fluidness
fluid-S
unfluid
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