solid
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒl.ɪd/
The English word “solid” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
- Appreciably large in size, quantity, or value.
- Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
- Strong or unyielding.
- Continuous and heavy.
- Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- Hearty; filling.
- Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
- Financially well off; wealthy.
- Sound; not weak.
- Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
- Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
- United; without division; unanimous.
- Of a single color throughout.
- United.
- Intimately allied or friendly with.
- Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
- Entire, complete.
- Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
- Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
Etymology
From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu.
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