liquid
Other forms: liquids; liquidly
In everyday use, liquid is the opposite of solid––water at room temperature is a liquid: Heat it to boiling, it turns to a gas. Chill it below freezing, it turns to ice.
Liquid describes a state in which a compound such as water flows. Juice is a liquid. Milk is a liquid. Your swimming pool is full of liquid. When assets are liquid, that means they can be liquidated easily, i.e., sold for cash. Stocks and bonds are liquid assets. Real estate, which can take a long time to sell, is considered illiquid.
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fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volumetypes:artificial blooda liquid that can carry large amounts of oxygen and can serve as a temporary substitute for bloodelixira sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant tasteH2O, waterbinary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solventextravasationan extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasationinstillationa liquid that is instilled drop by dropliquid crystala liquid exhibiting properties of a crystal that are not shown by ordinary liquidsspillliquid that is spilledtuberculina sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosistap waterwater directly from the spigotbath waterwater used for a bathdishwaterwater in which dishes and cooking utensils are washeddistilled waterwater that has been purified by distillationholy waterwater that has been blessed by a priest for use in symbolic purificationground water, spring water, well waterunderground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rockshard waterwater that contains mineral salts (as calcium and magnesium ions) that limit the formation of lather with soaplimewatersolution of calcium hydroxide in water used as an antacidmeltwatermelted snow or iceslushpartially melted snowsoft waterwater that is not hard (does not contain mineral salts that interfere with the formation of lather with soap)water of crystallisation, water of crystallization, water of hydrationthe water present in hydrated compoundstype of:fluidcontinuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas
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a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressuretypes:watera liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plantssupernatantthe clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitatealcoholany of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillationantifreezea liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing pointdistillate, distillationa purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distillingpyroligneous acid, wood vinegara red-brown liquid formed in distillation of wood which contains acetic acid, methanol, acetone, wood oils, and tarsmediuma liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painterinka liquid used for printing or writing or drawinggrumea thick viscous liquidliquora liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial processsheep dipa liquid mixture containing pesticides in which sheep are dipped to kill parasitessnake oil(medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthlessmilka white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beingswish-washany thin watery drinkpotiona medicinal or magical or poisonous beveragealcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicanta liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agenthydromelhoney diluted in water; becomes mead when fermentedoenomelwine mixed with honeynear beerdrink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 percent alcoholginger beercarbonated slightly alcoholic drink flavored with fermented gingermixerclub soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcoholcooleran iced drink especially white wine and fruit juicerefreshera drink that refreshessmoothiea thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milkfizzan effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)chocolate, cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolatea beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hotmateSouth American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called matesoft drinknonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)tea-like drinka beverage that resembles tea but is not made from tea leavesbranch waterpure natural water from a stream or brook; often distinguished from soda waterspring waterwater from a springdrinking waterwater suitable for drinkingmethanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirita light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcoholethanol, ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcoholthe intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasolineallyl alcohol, propenyl alcoholan unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticalsamyl alcohola mixture of 2 or more isomeric alcohols; used as a solvent and in organic synthesiscyclohexanola colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphorethanediol, ethylene glycol, glycola sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solventpropanediol, propylene glycola sweet colorless, viscous, hygroscopic liquid used as an antifreeze and in brake fluid and also as a humectant in cosmetics and personal care items although it can be absorbed through the skin with harmful effectsglycerin, glycerine, glycerola sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oilsindelible inkink that cannot be erased or washed awaymagnetic inkan ink that contains particles of a magnetic substance whose presence can be detected by magnetic sensorswriting inkany permanent or washable ink used with pens1-dodecanol, lauryl alcohola colorless insoluble solid alcohol used to make detergents and pharmaceuticalspropanol, propyl alcohola clear colorless volatile liquid (alcohol) used as a solvent and antisepticsteroid alcohol, sterolany of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substancestype of:fluida substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure
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the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibilitysynonyms: liquid state, liquidity, liquidnesstype of:state, state of matter(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
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existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow“water and milk and blood are liquid substances”antonyms:solidof definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseousgaseousexisting as or having the qualities of a gashardresisting weight or pressureconcreteformed by the coalescence of particlesdryused of solid substances in contrast with liquid onessemisolidpartly solid; having a rigidity and viscosity intermediate between a solid and a liquidsolid-stateconsisting of semiconductor materials and components and related devicessolid-statecharacteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solidsaerosolised, aerosolizedin the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gasevaporateddrawn off in the form of vaporgassyresembling gas
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changed from a solid to a liquid state
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filled or brimming with tears
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clear and bright
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smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness“the liquid song of a robin”synonyms:musicalcharacteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music
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smooth and unconstrained in movement
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a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')type of:consonanta speech sound that is not a vowel
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in cash or easily convertible to cashsynonyms: fluiddisposablefree or available for use or disposition
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