Word Finder - solid

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A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).

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A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).

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A favor.

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I owe him; he did me a solid last year.

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An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.

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I prefer solids over paisleys.

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(in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.

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The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.

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(of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.

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Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.

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Large in size, quantity, or value.

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• massive
• substantial

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Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.

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solid chocolate

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Strong or unyielding.

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a solid foundation

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Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.

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I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.

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Hearty; filling.

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a solid meal

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Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.

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Financially well off; wealthy.

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Sound; not weak.

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a solid constitution of body

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Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

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American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.

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• closed

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Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.

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United; without division; unanimous.

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The delegation is solid for a candidate.

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Of a single color throughout.

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He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.

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(of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.

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The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.

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Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.

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A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.

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Solidly.

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Without spaces or hyphens.

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Many long-established compounds are set solid.

Once again the rear end was on solid ground.

It's heavy, lads--solid books.

The wooden planks were old and weathered, but felt solid enough.

Reason said if she left now, there would never be a solid relationship.

The footsteps of those entering the kitchen were solid against the stone floor.

The top three and bottom three seem pretty solid to me.

But I've just had the bad luck to come out of the sky, skip the solid earth, and land lower down than I intended.

The ends of the wooden legs were shod with plates of solid gold, and the saddle of the Princess Ozma, which was of red leather set with sparkling diamonds, was strapped to the clumsy body.

Overwhelmed with fatigue, she relaxed with her back against the solid support of his body.

Deidre found herself leaning into his solid frame without resistance, entranced by the combination of his hot, hard body and cool fire on her swimming senses.

It certainly felt solid.

She had even been guilty of rubbing the DNA test in his face — solid proof that the baby girl was his.

The next important advance was the substitution of solid for liquid media; due originally to Schroter.

After a solid hour of the child crying, I wondered if the mother read about the abandoned child, perhaps with a fleeting hint of sympathy.

He willed himself solid, surprised when it worked.

All the comforts of home, except behind the rich brocade fabric walls stood twenty-four inches of rebar reinforced concrete and the door consisted of eight-inch diameter solid steel bars.

We are quite solid inside our bodies, and have no need to eat, any more than does a potato.

He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

There is a solid bottom everywhere.

After a few solid hours of sleep, his sense of center was back, his mind clear.

The walls were bare, the curtains drawn even during daylight, and the heavy wooden furniture solid and worn.

His solid frame and heat were creeping into her senses, tugging at her resolve to resist.

Death was almost seven feet tall, built more solid than a tree trunk with hair and eyes darker than a moonless night.

His arousal rose solid and thick against her belly, and the soft towel agitated her straining nipples.

Her knee hit the solid chunk of wood with a nauseating thump.

It is thrown across the gorge at a height of two hundred and fifty-eight feet above the water and is supported on each bank by towers of solid rock, which are eight hundred feet apart.

The restaurant has a solid wine list and full bar.

But unlike petite Cynthia, Maria was compact—not fat, but solid.

Too panicked to care, Deidre whirled and smacked into something solid.

A few minutes later she was kicking snow around in the chicken yard until the toe of her boot struck something solid.

The white block walls of the dairy remained solid, but the windows were dark.

It was made of solid rock, even the heavy door.

Xander kept up with her easily, the solid, warm body beside her affecting her senses in ways that made her angrier.

If 127 parts of iodine, which is an almost black solid, and loo parts of mercury, which is a white liquid metal, be intimately mixed by rubbing them together in a mortar, the two substances wholly disappear, and we obtain instead a brilliant red powder quite unlike the iodine or the mercury; almost the only property that is unchanged is the weight.

The tongue is so serviceable a member (taking all sorts of shapes, just as is wanted),--the teeth, the lips, the roof of the mouth, all ready to help, and so heap up the sound of the voice into the solid bits which we call consonants, and make room for the curiously shaped breathings which we call vowels!

From the outside, it looked rough, but well maintained and solid.

Only an hour ago their relationship had been so solid.

The gentleman's agreement between them had been tested and proven solid.

If the faces be all equal equilateral triangles the solid is termed the "regular" tetrahedron.

Both have fleshy caps, whitish, moist and clammy to the touch; instead of a pleasant odour, they have a disagreeable one; the stems are ringless, or nearly so; and the gills, which are palish-clay-brown, distinctly touch and grow on to the solid or pithy stem.

The stem is Lsolid and corky, much more solid than the flesh of the cap, and perfectly smooth, never being furnished with the slightest trace of a ring.

The ox-wagons with their solid wheels, and the curious water-wheels of brushwood with earthenware pots tied on to them and turned by a blindfolded donkey, are picturesque.

The difficulties of the harbour were increased by the continued silting up, produced by the enormous amount of solid material brought down by the river.

The armature consists of a bony case, partly composed of solid buckler-like plates, and partly of movable transverse bands, the latter differing in number with the species, and giving to the body a considerable degree of flexibility.

The materials mixed with the iron borings cause them to rust into a solid mass, and in doing so a slight expansion takes place.

It is a brownish amorphous solid, which is insoluble in water.

Boron fluoride also combines with ammonia gas, equal volumes of the two gases giving a white crystalline solid of composition BF 3 NH 3 i with excess of ammonia gas, colourless liquids BF 3.2NH 3 and BF 3.3NH 3 are produced, which on heating lose ammonia and are converted into the solid form.

It unites readily with ammonia gas forming a white crystalline solid of composition 2BC13.3NH3.

The events of these three years taught the Labour leaders that a parliamentary party was of little practical influence unless it was able to cast on all important occasions a solid vote, and to meet the case a new method was devised.

He found Sweden in ruins, and devoted his whole life to laying the solid foundations of a new order of things which, in its essential features, has endured to the present day.