liquid
A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
Noun 2 meanings
A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
“A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.”
Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
Adjective 4 meanings
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
“liquid nitrogen”
Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
“a liquid melody”
Etymology
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
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LIQUID at a glance
LIQUID has 6 letters and scores 16 points in Scrabble (L 1 + I 1 + Q 10 + U 1 + I 1 + D 2) and 18 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,632 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with liquid
All rhymes- FLUID9
- SQUID15
- QUID14
- DRUID7
- LANGUID9
- GUID6
- ILLIQUID18
- SUPERFLUID16
- SUID5
- GENDERFLUID17
- EQUID15
- NOCTUID10
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