Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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').



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Liquid" Quotes from Famous Books



... them such magnificent churches, to exhibit that ingenious order of pillars which shine with gold, nor those rich ceilings, nor those altars sparkling with jewels. They desire not the purple parchment of price for their writings, the liquid gold to embellish the letters, nor the precious stones to decorate their covers, while you have such little care for the ministers of the altar." The pious writer has not forgotten himself in this copartnership ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... as we passed that town with a stolen moral history: and so swept onward, in and out among the islands, toward Avignon. Already the sun had fallen below the crest of the Cevennes; leaving behind him in the sky a liquid glory, and still sending far above us long level beams which gilded radiantly—far off to the eastward—the heights of Mont-Ventour. But we, deep in the deep valley, threaded our swift way among the islands in a soft twilight which gently ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier

... in a quiet corner of the potting-shed and covered with sand it will last for several years. To get the best out of parsnips stew them in a bain-marie for eight hours. Remove the undissolved portion of the parsnips and set the liquid on the stone floor of the larder to cool. Prepare a nice thick stock, adding seasoning to taste. Cut up three carrots. Place the carrots in the saucepan in which the parsnips were cooked, being careful to ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 • Various

... summoned it, a liquid opacity, like a piece of clouded glass, thrust itself between their eyes and the landscape. So suddenly it came that Stuart actually did not realize that this was falling rain, until, looking at the ground, he saw the earth dissolve into mud before his eyes ...
— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... is, there is still visible that which they have been long regarding with dread—the breakers known as the "Milky Way." Snow-white during the day, these terrible rock-tortured billows now gleam like a belt of liquid fire, the breakers at every crest seeming to break into veritable flames. Well for the castaways that this is the case; else how, in such obscurity, could the dangerous lee-shore be shunned? To keep off that is, for the time, the chief care of those in the gig; and all their energies ...
— The Land of Fire - A Tale of Adventure • Mayne Reid


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org