liquid
/'likwid/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Existing in a fluid state: Describes a substance that flows freely and is not solid or gaseous. Water is a common example.
- Clear and bright: Used to describe something that is clear, bright, and often shining, like eyes or air.
- Smooth and flowing in movement or sound: Characterized by graceful, effortless, and unconstrained motion or a smooth, melodious quality of sound.
- Easily converted to cash: In finance, describes assets that can be readily sold or converted into cash without significant loss of value.
- Filled with or as if with liquid: Often used poetically to describe eyes brimming with tears.
Noun:
- A fluid substance: Matter that has a fixed volume but no fixed shape, taking the shape of its container. It is a state between solid and gas.
- A frictionless consonant: In phonetics, a consonant sound (like 'l' or 'r') that flows smoothly without friction in speech.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- Water and oil are both liquid substances.
- She had liquid blue eyes that seemed to sparkle.
- The dancer moved with liquid grace across the stage.
- The company needs more liquid assets to cover its short-term expenses.
- Her eyes grew liquid with sorrow.
Noun:
- The liquid spilled all over the table.
- The 'l' sound in 'light' is a liquid.
Advanced Usage
"Liquid capital": Money that is immediately available for use or investment.
- The startup used its liquid capital to purchase new equipment.
"Liquid diet": A diet consisting only of foods that are in a liquid state.
- After the surgery, the patient was on a liquid diet for a week.
"In a liquid state": The physical condition of being a liquid.
- When ice melts, it turns from a solid into a liquid state.
Variants and Related Words
Liquidity (n): The state of being liquid; in finance, the availability of liquid assets.
- The bank's liquidity allowed it to handle the sudden withdrawals.
Liquidate (v): To convert assets into cash; to wind up the affairs of a business by selling its assets.
- They had to liquidate their inventory to pay the debts.
Liquidizer (n): A blender, a kitchen appliance used to make liquids or purees.
Synonyms
- Adjective (fluid state): Fluid, flowing, runny.
- Adjective (clear/bright): Clear, limpid, bright, luminous.
- Adjective (smooth/graceful): Fluid, graceful, flowing, smooth.
- Noun (substance): Fluid, solution, juice.
Related Phrases
"Liquid courage" (idiom): Confidence or bravery gained from drinking alcohol.
- He had a shot of whiskey for some liquid courage before his speech.
"Liquid lunch" (idiom, humorous): A lunch where alcoholic drinks are consumed instead of food.
- They came back from a liquid lunch and weren't very productive.
Related Idioms
- "To pour/throw cold water on something": To discourage an idea or plan. (Note: This idiom uses "water," a liquid, but is not a direct idiom with the word "liquid").
- He threw cold water on our proposal.
Adjective
- in cash or easily convertible to cash
- liquid (or fluid) assets
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- a long, smooth stride
- the fluid motion of a cat
- the liquid grace of a ballerina
- smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness
- the liquid song of a robin
- changed from a solid to a liquid state
- rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow
- clear and bright
- the liquid air of a spring morning
- eyes shining with a liquid luster
- limpid blue eyes
- filled or brimming with tears
- swimming eyes
- sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid
- existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
- water and milk and blood are liquid substances
Noun
- a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')
- fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure