Found 4 hits - Term: solid, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
solid \sol"id\ so^l"i^d, a. l. solidus, probably akin to
sollus whole, entire, gr. ???: cf. f. solide. cf.
consolidate,soda, solder, soldier, solemn.
1. having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly
adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of
other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; --
opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like
clay, or to incompact, like sand.
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2. not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as
distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense;
hence, sometimes, heavy.
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3. arith. having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as,
a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
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note: in this sense, cubics now generally used.
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4. firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid
pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
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5. applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united
and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
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6. fig.: worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as
opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm;
strong; valid; just; genuine.
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the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer.
--milton.
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these, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the
name of solid men. --dryden.
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the genius of the italians wrought by solid toil
what the myth-making imagination of the germans had
projected in a poem. --j. a.
symonds.
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7. sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. --i.
watts.
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8. bot. of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a
bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
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9. metaph. impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other
material particle or atom from any given portion of space;
-- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
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10. print. not having the lines separated by leads; not
open.
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11. united; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation
is solid for a candidate. polit. cant. u.s.
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solid angle. geom. see under angle.
solid color, an even color; one not shaded or variegated.
solid green. see emerald green
a, under green.
solid measure arith., a measure for volumes, in which the
units are each a cube of fixed linear magnitude, as a
cubic foot, yard, or the like; thus, a foot, in solid
measure, or a solid foot, contains 1,728 solid inches.
solid newel arch., a newel into which the ends of winding
stairs are built, in distinction from a hollow newel. see
under hollow, a.
solid problem geom., a problem which can be construed
geometrically, only by the intersection of a circle and a
conic section or of two conic sections. --hutton.
solid square mil., a square body or troops in which the
ranks and files are equal.
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syn: hard; firm; compact; strong; substantial; stable; sound;
real; valid; true; just; weighty; profound; grave;
important.
usage: solid, hard. these words both relate to the
internal constitution of bodies; but hardnotes a more
impenetrable nature or a firmer adherence of the
component parts than solid. hard is opposed to soft,
and solid to fluid, liquid, open, or hollow. wood is
usually solid; but some kinds of wood are hard, and
others are soft.
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repose you there; while i return to this hard
house,
more harder than the stones whereof 't is
raised. --shak.
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i hear his thundering voice resound,
and trampling feet than shake the solid ground.
--dryden.
1913 webster
see also:
consolidate soda solder soldier solemn fluid
liquid plastic incompact hollow hyphened
frivolous fallacious solid angle angle solid color
solid green emerald green green solid measure solid newel
hollow solid problem solid square solid hard
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
solid \sol"id\, n.
1. a substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among
its particles; a substance not fluid.
1913 webster
2. geom. a magnitude which has length, breadth, and
thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
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solid of revolution. geom. see revolution, n., 5.
1913 webster
see also:
solid of revolution revolution
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
solid
adj 1: of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor
gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state" ant: liquid,
gaseous
2: of good substantial quality; "solid comfort"; "a solid base
hit"
3: entirely of one substance with no holes inside; "solid
silver"; "a solid block of wood" ant: hollow
4: of one substance or character throughout; "solid gold"; "a
solid color"; "carved out of solid rock"
5: uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks; "a solid
line across the page"; "solid sheets of water"
6: providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid
food"; "ate a substantial breakfast" syn: hearty, satisfying,
substantial
7: of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid
foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" syn:
strong, substantial
8: having high moral qualities; "a noble spirit"; "a solid
citizen"; "an upstanding man"; "a worthy successor" syn:
noble, upstanding, worthy
9: not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the
snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground" syn: firm
10: having three dimensions; "a solid object"
11: incapable of being seen through; "solid blackness"
12: entirely of a single color throughout; "a solid fabric"
syn: self-colored, self-coloured
13: acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid
voting bloc" syn: unanimous
n 1: a substance that is solid at room temperature and pressure
2: the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under
moderate stress; resists forces such as compression that
tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
syn: solidness
3: a three-dimensional shape
see also:
liquid gaseous hollow hearty satisfying substantial
strong noble upstanding worthy firm
self-colored self-coloured unanimous solidness
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
353 moby thesaurus words for "solid":
ok, a certain, abiding, able to pay, ace-high, adamantine,
agreeing, an, any, any one, appreciable, at one, at one with,
atomic, authentic, authoritative, bad, balanced, bang-up, binding,
blank, block, body, bony, bonzer, boss, bristling, bulky, bully,
but good, cake, calculable, carried by acclamation, cement,
cemental, changeless, chock-full, close, close-knit,
close-textured, close-woven, clump, cluster, cogent, compact,
compacted, complete, compressed, concentrated, concordant,
concrete, concretion, concurrent, condensed, congested,
conglomerate, conglomeration, consentaneous, consentient,
consistent, consolidated, constant, continuing, continuous,
convincing, cool, corking, corneous, crackerjack, crammed,
crammed full, crawling, crowded, cubic, dandy, decent, delicious,
dense, dependable, developed, diamondlike, downright, ducky,
durable, dure, dynamic, effective, either, enduring, entire,
estimable, exclusive, fab, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fiducial,
fine and dandy, firm, firm as gibraltar, firmly, fixed, flintlike,
flinty, forceful, frozen, full, full-fledged, full-grown,
full-scale, gear, genuine, global, gluey, good, good for,
granitelike, granitic, great, groovy, hard, hard as nails,
hardhearted, hardly, heavy, homogeneous, honest-to-god, horny, hot,
hunky-dory, immobile, immutable, impenetrable, impermeable,
imperturbable, in agreement, in equilibrium, incontestable,
incontrovertible, indisputable, individual, indivisible,
infrangible, intact, integral, intensive, invincible, inviolate,
iron-hard, ironlike, irreducible, irrefutable, jam-packed, jam-up,
jammed, just, just dandy, keen, knot, lapideous, lasting,
law-abiding, lawful, legal, legitimate, like-minded, lithoid,
lithoidal, logical, lone, lump, made of iron, marble, marblelike,
marvy, mass, massive, material, mature, matured, mean, mighty,
monadic, monistic, neat, nifty, nobby, node, nonporous, obdurate,
of a piece, of one accord, of one mind, okay, one, osseous,
out of sight, packed, palpable, peachy, peachy-keen, permanent,
perpetual, persistent, persuasive, ponderable, populous, potent,
powerful, predictable, provable, proved, pure, quiescent, rational,
real, reasonable, regular, reliable, remaining, resistant,
resistive, rigid, ripe, ripping, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rum,
satisfactory, satisfying, scrumptious, secure, self-consistent,
sensible, serried, simple, single, singular, slap-up, smashing,
sober, sole, solid body, solidly, solitary, solvent,
something else, sound, spiffing, spiffy, stable, stalwart, static,
stationary, staunch, staying, steadfast, steady, steellike, steely,
stonelike, stony, stout, straight, strong, stunning, sturdy,
substantial, substantive, sufficient, sure, surefire, sustained,
swarming, swell, tangible, teeming, telling, thick, thick-growing,
thickset, thorough, three-dimensional, through-and-through, torpid,
total, tough, true, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, unabbreviated,
unadulterated, unalloyed, unaltered, unanalyzable, unanimous,
unbreakable, unbroken, unchallenged, unchangeable, unchanged,
unchanging, unchecked, uncontested, uncontradicted, uncontroverted,
uncut, undestroyed, undiminished, undivided, unexpurgated,
unfading, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, uniform, unindebted,
uninterrupted, unique, unitary, unmixed, unopposed, unrelieved,
unshakable, unshakeable, unshaky, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying,
unwavering, unyielding, upright, upstanding, valid, vigorous,
viscid, viscose, viscous, weighty, well-balanced, well-built,
well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, whole,
with one consent, with one voice, without nerves, wizard, worthy
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