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Acid

noun

Any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt.

Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide. Synonyms: back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen.

adjective

Harsh or corrosive in tone. Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic. "A barrage of acid comments" , "Her acrid remarks make her many enemies" , "Bitter words" , "Blistering criticism" , "Caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics" , "A sulfurous denunciation" , "A vitriolic critique"

Being sour to the taste. Synonyms: acidic, acidulent, acidulous.

Having the characteristics of an acid.

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"Acid" Quotes from Famous Books

... grams of hydrogen are formed when 80 grams of zinc react with sufficient hydrochloric acid ...

— Instruction for Using a Slide Rule • W. Stanley

... much smaller than that of our cultivated sorts; is very irregular in shape, always with distinct sutures, and often deeply corrugated and bright red in color. The walls are thin; the flesh is soft, with a distinct sharp, acid flavor much less agreeable than that of our ...

— Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato • William Warner Tracy

... when a drop of sulphuric acid was put into a tumbler of water, "several bright flashes were seen." This, we venture to think, was somewhat similar to the putting of a few drops of brandy and water into the human stomach; the usual result of which is, as we all know, to produce several bright flashes of wit, if not of light, or ...

— The Ocean and its Wonders • R.M. Ballantyne

... to live the two lives?" he said in a tone slightly acid. "If he continues to lead this Movement, he will have to give up fighting mobs and running up and ...

— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... of hydrochloric acid the hypoderm is sharply differentiated from the epiderm by a distinct reddish tint, but without the aid of a reagent the two tissues do not always differ in appearance. The cells of epiderm and hypoderm may be so similar that they appear to form ...

— The Genus Pinus • George Russell Shaw

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