solid
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s
Proto-Italic *soliðos
Latin solidusder.
Old French solidebor.
Middle English solide
English solid
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more solid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: solider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most solid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: solidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more solid
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most solid
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: solids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
pos: adj
examples: Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
gloss: Large in size, quantity, or value.
pos: adj
examples: 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
Americans increased their borrowing by a solid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge
On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it.
gloss: Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
pos: adj
examples: solid gold
solid chocolate
The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
gloss: Strong or unyielding.
pos: adj
examples: a solid foundation
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.
gloss: Continuous and heavy.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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[…]
gloss: Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That's a solid plan.
Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.
I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”
gloss: Hearty; filling.
pos: adj
examples: a solid meal
gloss: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
pos: adj
examples: the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer
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.
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.
gloss: Financially well off; wealthy.
pos: adj
gloss: Sound; not weak.
pos: adj
examples: a solid constitution of body
gloss: Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
pos: adj
examples: American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
gloss: Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: United; without division; unanimous.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
examples: The delegation is solid for a candidate.
gloss: Of a single color throughout.
pos: adj
examples: John painted the walls solid white.
He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
gloss: United.
pos: adj
examples: […] 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 […]
[…] 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.[…]
gloss: Intimately allied or friendly with.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: […] 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[…]
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.
[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).
gloss: Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
pos: adj
examples: The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
gloss: Entire, complete.
pos: adj
examples: 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- […]
gloss: Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
"What have plane figures to do with solid orbits? Solid bodies ought to be used for solid orbits."
[…] the rules […] for measuring different superficial or solid figures will be found under the several heads: the two fundamental[…]
gloss: Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
pos: adj
gloss: Solidly.
pos: adv
examples: True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see!"
Hm-m-—These papers are complete—They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs—ought to put me in more solid than ever with Miss Effie—and that home is good graft.
Suppose, then, a whole family got sick with this flu, and no help around, and winter setting in solid and cold three weeks early?
set a new high in baseball for the year, not only ending speculation as to when Durocher would be fired but putting him in more solid than ever before.
She was telling Bobbie about the time when Boko Fittleworth was trying to ingratiate himself with your Uncle Percy, and you very sportingly offered to go and call your Uncle Percy a lot of offensive names, so that Boko, hovering outside the door, could come in and stick up for him, thus putting himself in solid with him.
If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.
Then he drew a long-barreled revolver from under a coat that he had thrown aside and examined it carefully to see that the powder and ball were in solid and that none of the caps was missing
Soichi Yamazaki, chief analyst at Fukoku Capital Management said Nidec Corp's (6594.OS) earnings came in more solid than expected on Friday
gloss: Without spaces or hyphens.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Many long-established compounds are set solid.
gloss: A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
pos: noun
gloss: A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
pos: noun
gloss: A favor.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.
I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me a solid.
You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job.
Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. "Thanks again, Thomas," I said, opening the door for him. "I owe you a solid."
gloss: An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
pos: noun
examples: I prefer solids over paisleys.
gloss: Food which is not liquid-based.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
Derived words: booked solid
equisolid
half-solid
on solid ground
solid angle
solid as a rock
solid as Fort Knox
solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
solidbody
solid compound
solid-drawn
solid emulsion
solid hydrogen
solidification
solidish
solidism
solidist
solidity
solidly
solid model
solidness
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
solidungular
solidungulate
solifaction
subsolid
unsolid
nonsolid
quasi-solid
quasisolid
semisolid
semi-solid
Archimedean solid
biosolid
Catalan solid
hypersolid
Johnson solid
Kepler solid
nanosolid
Platonic solid
pseudosolid
quantum solid
solidlike
solid of revolution
Steinmetz solid
supersolid
sursolid
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ngurtë
lang: Arabic
word: صُلْب
roman: ṣulb
lang: Arabic
word: جَامِد
roman: jāmid
lang: Armenian
word: պինդ
roman: pind
lang: Armenian
word: կարծր
roman: karcr
lang: Azerbaijani
word: möhkəm
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bərk
lang: Belarusian
word: цвёрды
roman: cvjórdy
lang: Breton
word: solut
lang: Bulgarian
word: твърд
roman: tvǎrd
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: твердый
roman: tverdŷj
lang: Catalan
word: sòlid
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 固體 /固体
roman: gu³ tai²
lang: Chinese
word: 固體 /固体
roman: kò͘-thé
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 堅實 /坚实
roman: jiānshí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 固體 /固体
roman: gùtǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 堅 /坚
roman: jiān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 固
roman: gù
lang: Cornish
word: soled
lang: Czech
word: tuhý
lang: Danish
word: fast
lang: Dutch
word: vast
lang: Dutch
word: solide
lang: Finnish
word: kiinteä
lang: French
word: solide
lang: Galician
word: sólido
lang: Georgian
word: მყარი
roman: mq̇ari
lang: Georgian
word: მტკიცე
roman: mṭḳice
lang: Georgian
word: მაგარი
roman: magari
lang: German
word: fest
lang: Greek
word: στερεός
roman: stereós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: στερεός
roman: stereós
lang: Hebrew
word: מוצק
roman: mutzak
lang: Hindi
word: ठोस
roman: ṭhos
lang: Hungarian
word: szilárd
lang: Icelandic
word: storkuhamur
lang: Indonesian
word: padat
lang: Irish
word: soladach
lang: Italian
word: solido
lang: Japanese
word: 固体の
roman: kotai no
lang: Korean
word: 굳다
roman: gutda
lang: Korean
word: 단단하다
roman: dandan-hada
lang: Lao
word: ແຂງ
roman: khǣng
lang: Latin
word: solidus
lang: Latvian
word: ciets
lang: Malay
word: pejal
lang: Malayalam
word: ഖര
roman: khara
lang: Manchu
word: ᡶᡳᠯᡳ
roman: fili
lang: Māori
word: tūmārō
lang: Māori
word: pakari
lang: Marathi
word: स्थायू
roman: sthāyū
lang: Norwegian
word: fast
lang: Occitan
word: solid
lang: Persian
word: جامد
roman: jâmed
lang: Persian
word: صلب
roman: solb
lang: Persian
word: سخت
roman: saxt
lang: Polish
word: stały
lang: Portuguese
word: sólido
lang: Quechua
word: qaqa
lang: Romanian
word: solid
lang: Russian
word: твёрдый
roman: tvjórdyj
lang: Scots
word: solit
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чвр̑сто
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: твр̑до
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čvȓsto
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tvȓdo
lang: Slovak
word: pevný
lang: Slovene
word: trden
lang: Spanish
word: sólido
lang: Swedish
word: fast
lang: Swedish
word: i fast form
lang: Tagalog
word: siksin
lang: Tajik
word: ҷомид
roman: jomid
lang: Tajik
word: сулб
roman: sulb
lang: Tajik
word: сахт
roman: saxt
lang: Telugu
word: ఘన
roman: ghana
lang: Thai
word: แข็ง
roman: kɛ̌ng
lang: Turkish
word: katı
lang: Ukrainian
word: тверди́й
roman: tverdýj
lang: Urdu
word: ٹھوس
roman: ṭhos
lang: Uyghur
word: پۇختا
roman: puxta
lang: Uyghur
word: بەك
roman: bek
lang: Uyghur
word: چىداشلىق
roman: chidashliq
lang: Uyghur
word: چىداملىق
roman: chidamliq
lang: Uzbek
word: qattiq
lang: Vietnamese
word: rắn
lang: Welsh
word: solet
lang: Bulgarian
word: едноцветен
roman: ednocveten
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 纯色
roman: chúnsè
lang: Dutch
word: effen
lang: Dutch
word: egaal
lang: Finnish
word: yksivärinen
lang: German
word: einfarbig
lang: Hungarian
word: egyszínű
lang: Italian
word: tinta unita
lang: Polish
word: jednolity
lang: Russian
word: одноцве́тный
roman: odnocvétnyj