EGAVE

liquid

About 32.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
    A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
  2. noun Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
  3. adjective Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
    liquid nitrogen
  4. adjective Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
  5. adjective Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
  6. adjective Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
    a liquid melody
  7. adjective Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
    /l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.
  8. adjective Fluid and transparent.
    the liquid air

Similar words

fluid semiliquid fusible dissolved liquefied melted liquified molten liquefiable runny

Often followed by

and is in phase chromatography to or nitrogen water

Word family

liquidities liquidity liquidly liquidness liquidnesses liquids

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