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Definitions: Acidic |
AcidicAdjective1. (chemistry) being or containing an acid; (of a solution) having and excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7). 2. Tasting sour like acid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | Denotes a material(slag or refractory)whose index of basicity is less than 1. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | The condition of water or soil that contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Term applied to a wine containing an excessive amount of acid, usually a wine made from grapes not completely ripe. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A descriptive term applied to those igneous rocks that contain more than 60% silica. Acidic is one of four subdivisions of a widely used system for classifying igneous rocks based on their silica content: acidic, intermediate, basic, and ultrabasic b. Applied loosely to any igneous rock composed predominantly of light-colored minerals having a relatively low specific gravity.CF:felsic. (references) |
Weather | See acid solution. (references) |
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Synonyms: AcidicSynonyms: acidulent (adj), acidulous (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: alkaline (adj), amphoteric (adj). (additional references) |
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 | Cresyl violet stain, used here to stain this section of cervical spinal cord, bonds well with acidic components that comprise the neuronal cytoarchitecture such as ribosomes, nuclei and nucleoli.Credit: CDC. |  | A mine opening, adit. Note the highly contaminated acidic mine drainage coming from the left.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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Health | Eventually the body tissues become acidic. (references) | |
Remember that acidic foods and liquids can cause mouth and throat irritation. (references) | ||
This fluid, which helps make up semen, energizes the sperm and makes the vaginal canal less acidic. (references) | ||
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| "Acidic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acidic" is used about 191 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 191 | 22,216 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "acidic": Acidic Glycosphingolipids ♦ acidic hydrogen ♦ Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein ♦ weakly acidic. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "acidic": non-acidic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acidic food | 63 |
acidic soil | 21 |
acidic | 18 |
acidic fruit | 7 |
acidic urine | 7 |
acid acidic | 6 |
acidic diet | 4 |
alkaline acidic | 4 |
acidic water | 4 |
acidic stomach | 4 |
acidic body | 4 |
acidic plant soil | 4 |
acidic plant | 3 |
acidic food non | 3 |
acidic blood | 3 |
acidic food list | 3 |
acidic rain | 3 |
acidic ph | 3 |
acidic perennial soil | 3 |
acidic food low | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "acidic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i thartuar (fermented, sour, turned, wry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محمض (tart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 酸性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | surt (acid), sur (acetous, acid, dismal, sour, tart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zuur (acerbic, acetous, acid, bitter, brutal, gruff, harsh, heartburn, rough, sour, sullen, surly, tart, unkind, unpleasant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hapokas (acid), hapan (acid, sour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | acide (acetous, acid, blotter acid, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, paper acid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | säurehaltig, sauer (acetous, acid, acidly, acis, acrid, cross, hard, mad, moped, moping, off, pickled, sharp, shirty, sickly, sore, sour, soured, sourly, sulkily, sulky, tart, tartly, uptight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όξινος (acid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keasam-asaman (sourish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acido (acetous, acid, acids, acrid, beast, blotter acid, blue caps, blue drops, brown caps, California sunshine, crabbed, delysid, green caps, hawk, LSD-25, lysergyc acid diethylamide, microdots, N, N-diethyl-d-lysergimide, orange wedges, paper acid, pink drops, purple haze, purple wedges, sour, sunshine, tart, the ghost, white lightning, window panes, yellow caps, yellow drops, zen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 酸性酸化物 (acidic oxide), 酸性紙 (acidic paper), 酸性岩 (acidic rock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さ"せいが" (acidic rock), さ"せいさ"かぶつ (acidic oxide), さ"せいし (acidic paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 랄한 (Acrimonious, tart, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acidicay acidífero, ácido (acetous, acid, austere, beast, blotter acid, blue caps, blue drops, brown caps, California sunshine, green caps, hawk, microdots, orange wedges, paper acid, pink drops, purple haze, purple wedges, sharp, sour, sunshine, tart, the ghost, white lightning, window panes, yellow caps, yellow drops, zen). (various references) кислый (acetous, acid, persilicic, sour, tart, vinegary), кислотный (acid). (various references) ácido (acid, bitter, sharp, tart). (various references) vass (acid, cutting, edgy, incisive, keen, mordant, Reed, reedy, sharp), sur (acid, crabbed, cranky, cross, crotchety, dismal, grouchy, Moody, morose, ratty, sharp, shirty, sour, surly, wet). (various references) кислий (acerb, acerbic, acetous, acid, eager, raised, sour, tart, vinegary). (various references) có tính chất axit. (various references) asidig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "acidic": diacidic, monoacidic, nonacidic. (additional references) | |
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"Acidic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accidia, accidie, accitic, acedic, acerdic, acided, aciden, acido, acii, acitic, ahinici, Aidoc, Aizik, akidi, Arciduca, Aridjis, Ecodisc, icifi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "acidic" (pronounced usi"dik) |
| 3 | -d i k | Benedick, comedic, encyclopedic, episodic, heraldic, medic, melodic, nomadic, nordic, orthopedic, paramedic, periodic, rhapsodic, sporadic, tornadic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-i-i" | |
-2 letters: acid, cadi, caid. | |
-3 letters: aid, cad. | |
-4 letters: ad, ai, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-i-i" | |
+1 letter: accidia, accidie. | |
+2 letters: accidias, accidies, acidotic, carditic, coccidia, diacidic, diarchic, dicastic, didactic. | |
+3 letters: acaricide, apodictic, calcified, carcinoid, cichlidae, circadian, cladistic, diacritic, dialectic, didactics, nonacidic, radicchio. | |
+4 letters: acaricidal, acaricides, apodeictic, caducities, calcimined, carcinoids, cicatrized, cladistics, cocainized, delicacies, diachronic, diacritics, dialectics, didactical, flaccidity, indelicacy, monoacidic, radicchios, sacrificed, undidactic. | |
+5 letters: academician, academicism, accrediting, achondritic, acidimetric, acidophilic, bactericide, candidacies, cardiogenic, cardiotonic, classicized, codicillary, conciliated, crocodilian, cylindrical, decalcified, decalcifies, desiccating, desiccation, desiccative, diacritical, dialectical, dichromatic, didacticism, loculicidal, nondidactic, uncalcified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 69 64 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. .. -.. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01101001 01100100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c i d i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0069 0064 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356975707569 |
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