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Liquid   /lˈɪkwəd/  /lˈɪkwɪd/   Listen
Liquid

adjective
1.
Existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow.
2.
Filled or brimming with tears.  Synonym: swimming.  "Sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
3.
Clear and bright.  Synonym: limpid.  "Eyes shining with a liquid luster" , "Limpid blue eyes"
4.
Changed from a solid to a liquid state.  Synonyms: liquified, melted.
5.
Smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness.
6.
Smooth and unconstrained in movement.  Synonyms: fluent, fluid, smooth.  "The fluid motion of a cat" , "The liquid grace of a ballerina"
7.
In cash or easily convertible to cash.  Synonym: fluid.
noun
1.
A substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure.
2.
The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility.  Synonyms: liquid state, liquidity, liquidness.
3.
Fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume.
4.
A frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially 'l' and 'r').



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"Liquid" Quotes from Famous Books



... say what you like of MY father, then, and so I give you leave,' said Jonas. 'I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. How old should you think ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... into the bung-hole of each cask, when stowed away, a handful of half boiled hops impregnated with wort, the object of which is to exclude the atmospheric air by covering the surface of the liquid; but some brewers, more rigidly attentive, insert (privately) at the same time, about one ounce of powdered black rosin, previously mixed with beer, which swims on the surface, but after a time is ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 390, September 19, 1829 • Various

... the golden luminary when he should sink from sight. A gentle breeze filled the sails of the Calypso, the soft murmur from under whose cutwater seemed to testify to the delight with which she moved on her liquid way. For some time Holden had stood with folded arms, watching the sun, as by slow degrees he sunk into the waves. Pownal, himself, was thrillingly alive to the magnificence of earth, and sky, and ocean, and all fair forms and hues of nature, and noticing the exalted and rapt expression of his ...
— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams

... you are charming," said Phoebus Apollo absently; "the white water calls me! I go," and the next moment rings of liquid silver spread across the lake, widening and widening, from the spot where the white joined hands of the Sun-god had struck the water ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit

... forms of bacteria present in the liquid being killed, stand it for twenty-four hours in a cool, dark place; at the end of that time some at least of such spores as may be present will have germinated and assumed the ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre


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