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Definition: Liquid |
LiquidAdjective1. Existing as or have characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances". 2. Filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid". 3. Clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes". 4. Changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow". 5. Smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness; "the liquid song of a robin". 6. Yielding; lacking any hint of hardness; "the liquid stillness of the night enveloping him"; "the liquid brown eyes of a spaniel". 7. Smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose". 8. In cash or easily convertible to cash; "liquid (or fluid) assets". Noun1. A substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure. 2. The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility. 3. A substance in the fluid state of matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume. 4. A frictionless non-nasal continuant (especially `l' and `r'). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "liquid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A substance in a state in which the individual particles move freely with relation to each other and take the shape of the container, but do not expand to fill the container. Compare fluid. (references) |
Finance | A characteristic of a security or commodity market with enough units outstanding to allow large transactions without a substantial change in price. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:LiquidOne of the four phases of matter, a liquid is a fluid whose volume is fixed under conditions of constant temperature and pressure and whose shape is usually determined by the container it fills. Liquids tend to pull themselves together into droplets due to surface tension. The kinetic energy in a liquid is greater than that of a solid, but less than that of a gas. Atoms in a liquid slide over one another, allowing the liquid to flow.
It should be noted that glass at normal temperatures is not a "supercooled liquid", but a solid. See the article on glass for more details.
See also gas, solid, plasma, ripple.
In linguistics, "liquid" can also refer to a liquid consonant.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Liquid."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Liquidity is a business term that refers to the ability to quickly buy or sell a particular item.A stock is considered highly liquid (or simply liquid) if it is widely available and people are willing to buy and sell it. Stocks with limited public shares, or ones that are over or under valued will be hard to move, becoming illiquid. The same terms can be applied to almost any item, from commodities like oil, to currencies like the US Dollar, to trinkets like Beanie Babies.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Liquidity."
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In the physical sciences, a phase is a set of states of a macroscopic physical system that have relatively uniform chemical composition and physical properties (i.e. density, crystal structure, index of refraction, and so forth.) The most familiar examples of phases are solids, liquids, and gases. Less familiar phases include plasmas and Bose-Einstein condensates, and the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of magnetic materials.
Phases are sometimes called states of matter, but this term can lead to confusion with thermodynamic states. For example, two gases maintained at different pressures are in different thermodynamic states, but the same "state of matter".
Definitions
Although phases are conceptually simple, they are hard to define precisely. A good definition of a phase of a system is a region in the parameter space of the system's thermodynamic variables in which the free energy is analytic. Equivalently, two states of a system are in the same phase if they can be transformed into each other without abrupt changes in any of their thermodynamic properties.
All the thermodynamic properties of a system -- the entropy, heat capacity, magnetization, compressibility, and so forth -- may be expressed in terms of the free energy and its derivatives. For example, the entropy is simply the first derivative of the free energy with temperature. As long as the free energy remains analytic, all the thermodynamic properties will be well-behaved.
When a system goes from one phase to another, there will generally be a stage where the free energy is non-analytic. This is known as a phase transition. Familiar examples of phase transitions are melting (solid to liquid), freezing (liquid to solid), boiling (liquid to gas), and condensation (gas to liquid). Due to this non-analyticity, the free energies on either side of the transition are two different functions, so one or more thermodynamic properties will behave very differently after the transition. The property most commonly examined in this context is the heat capacity. During a transition, the heat capacity may become infinite, jump abruptly to a different value, or exhibit a "kink" or discontinuity in its derivative.
Possible graphs of heat capacity (C) against temperature (T) at a phase transition.In practice, each type of phase is distinguished by a handful of relevant thermodynamic properties. For example, the distinguishing feature of a solid is its rigidity; unlike a liquid or a gas, a solid does not easily change its shape. Liquids are distinct from gases because they have much lower compressibility: a gas placed in a large container expands to fill the container, whereas a liquid forms a puddle in the bottom of the container. Not all the properties of solids, liquids, and gases are distinct; for example, it is not useful to compare their magnetic properties. On the other hand, the ferromagnetic phase of a magnetic material is distinguished from the paramagnetic phase by the presence of bulk magnetization without an applied magnetic field.
Emergence and universality
Phases are emergent phenomena produced by the self-organization of a macroscopic number of particles. Typical samples of matter, for example, contain around 1023 particles (Avogadro's number). In systems that are too small -- even, say, a thousand atoms -- the distinction between phases disappears, since the appearance of non-analyticity in the free energy requires a huge, formally infinite, number of particles to be present.
One might ask why real systems exhibit phases, since they are not actually infinite. The reason is that real systems contain thermodynamic fluctuations. When a system is far from a phase transition, these fluctuations are unimportant, but as it approaches a phase transition, the fluctuations begin to grow in size (i.e. spatial extent). At the ideal transition point, their size would be infinite, but before that can happen the fluctuations will have become as large as the system itself. In this regime, "finite-size" effects come into play, and we are unable to accurately predict the behavior of the system. Thus, phases in a real system are only well-defined away from phase transitions, and how far away it needs to be is dependent on the size of the system.
There is a corollary to the emergent nature of phase phenomena, known as the principle of universality. The properties of phases are largely independent of the underlying microscopic physics, so that the same types of phases arise in a wide variety of systems. This is a familiar fact of life. We know, for example, that the property that defines a solid -- resistance to deformation -- is exhibited by materials as diverse as iron, ice, and Silly Putty. The only differences are matters of scale. Iron may resist deformation more strongly than Silly Putty, but both maintain their shape if the applied forces are not too strong.
Phase diagrams
The different phases of a system may be represented using a phase diagram. The axes of the diagrams are the relevant thermodynamic variables. For simple mechanical systems, we generally use the pressure and temperature. The following figure shows a phase diagram for a typical material exhibiting solid, liquid and gaseous phases.
A typical phase diagram.The markings on the phase diagram show the points where the free energy is non-analytic. The open spaces, where the free energy is analytic, correspond to the phases. The phases are separated by lines of non-analyticity, where phase transitions occur, which are called phase boundaries.
In the above diagram, the phase boundary between liquid and gas does not continue indefinitely. Instead, it terminates at a point on the phase diagram called the critical point. This reflects the fact that, at extremely high temperatures and pressures, the liquid and gaseous phases become indistinguishable. In water, the critical point occurs at around 647 K (374 °C or 705 °F) and 22.064 MPa.
The existence of the liquid-gas critical point reveals a slight ambiguity in our above definitions. When going from the liquid to the gaseous phase, one usually crosses the phase boundary, but it is possible to choose a path that never crosses the boundary by going to the right of the critical point. Thus, phases can sometimes blend continuously into each other. We should note, however, that this does not always happen. For example, it is impossible for the solid-liquid phase boundary to end in a critical point in the same way as the liquid-gas boundary, because the solid and liquid phases have different symmetry.
An interesting thing to note is that the solid-liquid phase boundary in the phase diagram of most substances, such as the one shown above, has a positive slope. This is due to the solid phase having a higher density than the liquid, so that increasing the pressure increases the melting temperature. However, in the phase diagram for water the solid-liquid phase boundary has a negative slope. This reflects the fact that ice has a lower density than water, which is an unusual property for a material.
Polymorphism
Many substances can exist in a variety of solid phases each corresponding to a unique crystal structure. These varying crystal phases of the same substance are called polymorphs. Diamond and graphite are examples of polymorphs of carbon. Graphite is composed of layers of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms, in which each carbon atom is strongly bound to three neighboring atoms in the same layer and is weakly bound to atoms in the neighboring layers. By contrast in diamond each carbon atom is strongly bound to four neighboring carbon atoms in a cubic array. The unique crystal structures of graphite and diamond are responsible for the vastly different properties of these two materials.
Each polymorph of a given substance is usually only stable over a specific range of conditions. For example, diamond is only stable at extremely high pressures. Graphite is the stable form of carbon at normal atmospheric pressures. Although diamond is not stable at atmospheric pressures and should transform to graphite, we know that diamonds exist at these pressures. This is because at normal temperatures the transformation from diamond to graphite is extremely slow. If we were to heat the diamond, the rate of transformation would increase and the diamond would become graphite. However, at normal temperatures the diamond can persist for a very long time. Non-equilibrium phases like diamond that exist for long periods of time are said to be metastable.
Another important example of metastable polymorphs occurs during the processing of steel. Steels are often subjected to a variety of thermal treatments designed to produce various combinations of stable and metastable iron phases. In this way the steel properties, such as hardness and strength can be adjusted by controlling the relative amounts and crystal sizes of the various phases that form.
Phase separation
Different parts of a system may exist in different phases, in which case the phases are usually separated by boundary surfaces.
Gibbs' phase rule describes the number of phases that can be present at equilibrium for a given system at various conditions. The phase rule indicates that for a single component system at most three phases (usually gas, liquid and solid) can co-exist in equilibrium. The three phases can all co-exist only at a single specific temperature and pressure, characteristic of the material, called the triple point. The conditions where two phases become indistinguishable is called a critical point. The phase rule also indicates that two phases can only co-exist at equilibrium for specific combinations of temperature and pressure. For example for a liquid-gas system if the vapor pressure is lower than that corresponding to the temperature, the system will not be at equilibrium, rather the liquid will tend to evaporate until the vapor pressure reaches the appropriate level or all of the liquid is consumed. Likewise, if the vapor pressure is too great for the given temperature condensation will occur.
For the case of multi-component systems the phase rule indicates that additional phases are possible. A common example of this occurs in mixtures of mutually insoluble substances such as water and oil. If a few drops of oil are poured into pure water, there will be a small amount of intermixing, but there will be two distinct phases: one primarily oil and the other primarily water. The exact composition of the phases will be a function of the temperature and pressure but not a function of the amount of oil. It may be possible to change the temperature such that one of the phases disappears: for example, if the mixture is heated, it is possible that at some temperature, all of the oil is dissolved in the water. Above this temperature there is only one phase, and the composition of the phase does depend on how much oil was put in.
Phase separation can also exist in two dimensions. The boundaries between phases, the surfaces of materials, and the grain boundaries between different crystallographic orientations of a single material can also show distinct phases. For example, surface reconstructions on metal and semiconductor surfaces are two dimensional phases.
See also
- Condensed matter physics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phase (matter)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| liq. | English | Liquid | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LiquidSynonyms: flowing (adj), fluent (adj), fluid (adj), limpid (adj), liquified (adj), melted (adj), smooth (adj), swimming (adj), watery (adj), liquidity (n), liquidness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: gaseous (adj), solid (adj), unmelted (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium. |
Fluidity | Fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies; chyle. |
Adjective: liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous; fluent. (flowing). | |
Fuel | Oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice, gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number oil, number oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox. |
Letter | Consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable; affix, suffix. |
Liquefaction | Verb: render liquid; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt. (heat); solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate; hold in solution; condense, precipitate, rain. |
Measurement | Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). |
Refrigerator | Freezing mixture, ice, ice cubes, blocks of ice, chipped ice; liquid nitrogen, dry ice, dry ice-acetone, liquid helium. |
Freezer, deep freeze, dry ice freezer, liquid nitrogen freezer, refigerator-freezer. | |
Securities | Liquid assets. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Uh, sir, it's liquid. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) It's extract of the ginkgo, and it makes your skin real slick so that any liquid will roll right off you, be it water, or lemon juice, or urine (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White) The T-virus is protean, changing from liquid to airborne to blood transmission, depending on it's environment (Resident Evil; writing credit: Paul W.S. Anderson) | |
Lyrics | Liquid Dreams, my Liquid Dreams (Liquid Dreams; performing artist: O-Town) My liquid dreams (Liquid Dreams; performing artist: O-Town) Waterfalls and streams, these liquid dreams (Liquid Dreams; performing artist: O-Town) You've got the star of my liquid dreams (Liquid Dreams; performing artist: O-Town) | |
Clever | Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion (1970) Liquid Dynamite (1926) The Inventor's Galvanic Fluid Liquid Electricity; or (1907) Liquid Bridge (2003) | |
Song Titles | Liquid Dreams (performing artist: O-Town) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Seen are a technician's hands performing a lab test. The test tube with some frozen breast tissue and some liquid are visible, as well as the techician in some slides. This is the estrogen receptor assay being performed at the time of mastectomy. Results suggest whether removal of ovaries or use of antiestrogen drugs are likely to be effective therapy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Seen is a lab technician performing a step in the estrogen receptor assay. She is placing some liquid in test vials and inspecting them. In some slides only her hands and the vials are visible. The results of this test indicate whether removal of ovaries or antiestrogen drugs is the likely therapy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | The liquid nitrogen will preserve a specimen from a patient with VHF. Credit: CDC. |  | This laboratory technician is conducting lab research using a hand-held pipette as she removes a liquid from a graduated cylinder. Credit: CDC. |
 | Liquid Cooling Garment. Credit: NASA. |  | First Flight of a Liquid Propellant Rocket. Credit: NASA. |
 | Fourth Flight of a Liquid Propellant Rocket. Credit: NASA. |  | Immersing specimen material in liquid nitrogen to preserve for future studies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Storing sample material in a vile prior to storing in liquid nitrogen. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Liquid water content meter and other probes. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
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| "Liquid distortion" by Jillian Balfour Commentary: "The back window of my car; the defrost wires looked rather cool underneath the raindrops." | "Liquid backrounds 1" by Peter Skadberg Commentary: "Backround or desktop image." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Pitcher; water; liquid; refreshment; glass. | | Motor; drain; liquid; watery; suck; . |
| Resonating; resonate; ring; ringing; liquid; qua; aqueous; swill; fluid; aqueous; flowing; fluent; in solution; juicy; liquefied; lymphatic; melted; molten; running; runny; serous; uncongealed; watery. | ||
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Nathaniel Hawthorne | She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of her spirit. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Again, this second rise of level causes a yet further immersion, and by consequence another displacement of liquid and another rise |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There are liquid clays, living springs, hard rocks, those soft and deep mires which technical science calls Moutardes |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jellylike mass of liquid corruption |
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Health | This liquid flushes out the bowel. (references) | |
Liquid helps move food through the digestive system. (references) | ||
Try a liquid meal replacement for extra calories and protein. (references) | ||
Business | The higher the ratio, the more liquid the company. (references) | |
It is used primarily to treat inorganic liquid waste. (references) | ||
This has reduced liquid waste and stabilized the market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Poland | Approximately 20% of liquid fuels are imported. (references) |
Oman | There will be six berths, two of which will be liquid berths. (references) | |
Pakistan | Karachi is the main port, handling the majority of all dry and liquid cargo. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guinea | Some suspected criminals, notably thieves and rapists, were beaten to death or burned by their victims or others after being soaked with a flammable liquid. (references) |
Mexico | Many of the youths were high on paint thinner and liquid glue and said that they were protesting poor living conditions that included bad food, dirty water, and a lack of medications. (references) | |
Bulgaria | In April 2000, according to unconfirmed NGO reports, a 16-year-old Rom, Tsvetalin Petrov, suffered third-degree burns after allegedly being doused with an inflammable liquid and set on fire while in custody in the Vidin police station. (references) | |
Political Economy | NICARAGUA | The importation of crude or partially-refined petroleum, liquid gas, and other petroleum derivatives were also exempted from some taxes. (references) |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Since there is no secondary market for government securities and no liquid security market, the tools available to the Central Bank are limited. (references) | |
HONDURAS | The government also reviews the price of gasoline, diesel, and liquid propane gas, as well as the rates for public transportation and public utilities. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | Liquid fuels in transit are also stored. (references) |
Botswana | The provisions for U.S. and other foreign firms borrowing in Botswana are liberal while local banks remain highly liquid. (references) | |
Kenya | Advances against collateral vary from about 40% of value of the property to as much as 85% on more liquid cash and securities. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Increase liquid intake of boiled, filtered water. (references) |
Ghana | It is advisable to SLOW DOWN - you'll last longer! Increase your non-alcoholic liquid intake - water and juices. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The Corporation is designed to spur the development of commercial technologies for production of synthetic fuels, such as liquid and gaseous fuels from coal and the production of oil from oil shale. |
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| "Liquid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 51.83% of the time. "Liquid" is used about 1,553 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) | 51.83% | 805 | 8,650 |
| Noun (singular) | 46.75% | 726 | 9,293 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.09% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (common) | 0.32% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,553 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Liquid Audio, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "liquid": Anaplex Liquid [OTC] ♦ become liquid ♦ black liquid ♦ Cadel's fuming liquid ♦ Cadet's fuming liquid ♦ cashew nutshell liquid resin ♦ Chlorafed Liquid [OTC] ♦ clear liquid diet ♦ cloudy liquid ♦ dangerous liquid ♦ Detussin Liquid ♦ dishwashing liquid ♦ drain cleaning liquid ♦ Dutch liquid ♦ Hayfebrol Liquid [OTC] ♦ high performance liquid chromatography ♦ high pressure liquid chromatography ♦ Histussin D Liquid ♦ ionic liquid ♦ liquid air ♦ liquid ammonia ♦ liquid assets ♦ liquid barretter ♦ liquid bleach ♦ liquid body substance ♦ liquid cannabis ♦ liquid chromatography ♦ liquid column chromatography ♦ liquid consonant ♦ liquid content of clouds ♦ liquid control chemical ♦ liquid coolant ♦ liquid copal ♦ liquid crystal ♦ liquid crystal display ♦ liquid detergent ♦ liquid diet ♦ liquid explosive ♦ liquid fluidized bed reactor ♦ liquid for hydraulic brakes ♦ liquid fuel ♦ liquid funds ♦ liquid garbage ♦ liquid gas ♦ Liquid glass ♦ Liquid glue ♦ liquid hashish ♦ liquid helium ♦ liquid hydrogen ♦ liquid island ♦ liquid liabilities ♦ liquid lubricant ♦ liquid manure ♦ liquid measure ♦ liquid measures ♦ liquid metal reactor ♦ liquid metals pump ♦ liquid milk ♦ liquid nitrogen ♦ liquid nitrogen freezer ♦ liquid oxygen ♦ Liquid Pred ♦ liquid pump ♦ liquid resources ♦ liquid rosin ♦ liquid rubber ♦ liquid scintillation counting ♦ liquid shim ♦ liquid sludge ♦ liquid soap ♦ liquid source ♦ liquid sprayer ♦ liquid storax ♦ liquid suction heat interchanger ♦ liquid unit ♦ Liquid Ventilation ♦ liquid waste ♦ make liquid ♦ Naldecon DX Adult Liquid [OTC] ♦ Naldecon DX Children's Liquid [OTC] ♦ natural gas liquid ♦ newtonian liquid ♦ non freeze liquid ♦ principle of liquid displacement ♦ Prometh VC Plain Liquid ♦ pump for liquid metals ♦ Rescon Liquid [OTC] ♦ Rhinosyn Liquid [OTC] ♦ Rolatuss Plain Liquid ♦ Ryna Liquid [OTC] ♦ solid and liquid fuels ♦ thermostatic limited liquid charge ♦ thermostatic liquid charge ♦ turbid liquid ♦ Tyrodone Liquid ♦ United States liquid unit ♦ very liquid ♦ washing liquid ♦ waste liquid ♦ World Liquid Petroleum Gas Association. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "liquid": liquid-based, liquid-cooled, liquid-crystal, liquid-drop, liquid-filled, liquid-fueled, liquid-fuelled, liquid-gas stove, liquid-helium, liquid-hydrogen, liquid-junction, liquid-level, liquid-like, liquid-liquid, liquid-lunch-from-hell, liquid-natural-gas, liquid-nitrogen, liquid-phase, liquid-polymer, liquid-propellant rocket, liquid-solid, liquid-vapour. | |
Ending with "liquid": solid-liquid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
liquid vitamin | 679 | into liquid step | 89 |
generation liquid | 483 | liquid pong | 86 |
liquid diet | 448 | liquid fence | 86 |
liquid | 416 | liquid logic | 84 |
liquid crystal | 412 | liquid leather | 79 |
liquid measurement | 347 | liquid metal | 74 |
liquid latex | 322 | liquid nail | 74 |
liquid nitrogen | 260 | factor liquid | 71 |
liquid force | 196 | liquid lounge | 69 |
sprite liquid mix tour | 170 | liquid ring pump | 66 |
liquid crystal display | 145 | seasilver liquid vitamin | 66 |
liquid oxygen | 130 | common liquid sense soap | 65 |
club liquid | 116 | generation.com liquid | 65 |
liquid blue | 110 | clear liquid diet | 65 |
liquid measure | 106 | liquid fertilizer | 64 |
liquid glass | 105 | liquid city | 63 |
liquid conversion | 103 | liquid solar blanket | 63 |
liquid siding | 102 | liquid smoke | 62 |
liquid audio | 101 | ky warming liquid | 60 |
liquid ring vacuum pump | 97 | liquid air | 60 |
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| Language | Translations for "liquid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vloeistof (fluid). (various references) | |
Albanian | likuid, lëngëzor, lëng (dip, dissolution, fluid, juice, liquor, milk, sap, wash, water), tingull lëngëzor, i ujshëm (washy, watery), i lëngshëm (fluid, runny, serous, sloppy, succulent, wishy washy), i lëngët (fluid, succulent), i kulluar (crystal, crystalline, lucent, lucid, pellucid), i kthjellët (bright, clear, clear-sighted, cloudless, fair, light, limpid, lucid, luminary, pellucid, perspicuous, sober, unclouded). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملفوظ بلطف, مادة سائلة, مائع (deliquescent, delitescent, fluid, running, runny, yielding), حرف صامت, سلس (be smooth, cursive, easy, fluent, fluid, glib, voluble), سائل (blob, pouring, questioning, run, running, runny, runny nose, streaming, thin, thinning), عنبرشراب مسكرت سائل, عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), رخيم (euphonic, mellow, melodious, singsong, soft, tuneful). (various references) | |
Basque | isurgai. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | звучен (deep-mouthed, full, melodious, orotund, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, smacking, soft, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, sweet, tuneful, vibrant, vocal, voiced, voiceful), плавен звук, променлив (baffling, changeable, choppy, erratic, fitful, fluctuating, fluent, inconsistent, inconstant, mobile, protean, shifting, undecided, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variant, varied, versatile, volatile), бистър (clear, crystal, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid, robust, translucent), ликвиден, ликвиден звук, плавен (easy, flowing, fluent, fluid, graceful, light, tripping), леещ се, светъл (auspicious, bright, cheerful, cheery, clear, fair, fair haired, fine, light, lucent, lucid, pale, relucent, rosy, unshadowed, vivid, white), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), течен (fluid, runny), течност (dip, fluid, liquor, wet), разтеглив (expansible, expansive, stretch, stretchy, tensile), сонорен, сонорен звук, лазурен (azure, blue, sky blue). (various references) | |
Chinese | 液體 , 液態 , 液体 (Liquidly), 液 (fluid). (various references) | |
Czech | likvidní, kapalný, kapalina (fluid). (various references) | |
Danish | vædske (fluid), flydende (fluid). (various references) | |
Dutch | vloeistof (fluid). (various references) | |
Esperanto | likvida, likvaĵo, likva, fluidaĵo (fluid), fluida (fluid), fluaĵo (fluid). (various references) | |
Faeroese | flótandi. (various references) | |
Farsi | پول شدنی , مایع (Water), چیزابکی , سهل وساده , سلیس (Easy, Fluent, Glib, Smooth, Versatile, Voluble), ابگونه (Water), روان (Cursive, Easy, Fluent, Ghost, Glib, Handy, Psyche, Smooth, Spirit, Versatile, Voluble). (various references) | |
Finnish | likviidi, sula (fluid, melted, molten, not frozen, sheer), nestemäinen, neste (fluid), juokseva (current, flowing, fluid), aalto (billow, fluid, roller, wave). (various references) | |
French | liquide (liquor). (various references) | |
Frisian | floeistof (fluid), floeiber (fluid). (various references) | |
German | flüssigkeit (availability, fluid, fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, liquor, smoothness), flüssig (available, easy, effortless, flowing, fluent, fluently, fluid, fluidly, fluxional, liquidly, melted, molten, runny, smooth), liquid (solvent). (various references) | |
Greek | υγρό (fluid, juice, liquor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לח (damp, humid, moist, moisty, soggy), נוזלי (fluid), נוזל (fluid, liquor), נזיל (fluid, solvent), נגר (cabinetmaker, carpenter, flowing, fluid, joiner). (various references) | |
Hungarian | híg (dilute, extenuate, tempered, tenuous, thin, to grout, washy, weak), folyadék (fluid, liquor), folyékony (fluent, fluid, running). (various references) | |
Indonesian | encer (aqueous, quick, smart, thin, washy, weak). (various references) | |
Italian | liquido (cash, fluid, fluidly, fluxional, liquidly, pouring, runny). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リアルタイム処理 (liaison, Likud, liqueur, liquor, real politics, real price, real time processing, recall, recital, reclining seat, recommendation, reconstruction, recorder, recover, recovery, recovery shot, recreation, recruit, recruit fashion, recruiter, recurrent, recurrent neural network, recursion, recursive, recycle, recycle shop, recycling, re-engineering, regret, request, research, resize, rickettsia, Ricoh, rig, Rigel Kentaurus, rigorism, rigorist), 液体 (fluid), 液体 (fluid), 液 (fluid), 流動体 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リキッド , りゅうどうたい, えきたい (fluid), えき (advantage, battle, being beneficial, benefit, campaign, divination, fluid, fortune-telling, gain, large, profit, station, use, war). (various references) | |
Korean | 액체 (fluid). (various references) | |
Manx | ushlagh (marshy, swampy, watery, wet), so-eaysley, fliughid (liquidity, wetness), fliughane (champignon, mushroom). (various references) | |
Norwegian | væske (fluid, liquor), klar (clear, distinct, limpid, lucid, obvious, plain), flytende (fluent, fluid). (various references) | |
Occitan | liquid. (various references) | |
Papiamen | líkido (fluid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iquidlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | líquido (cleanly cut, fluid, neat, net, precise, water). (various references) | |
Romanian | lichid (molten, ready, watery), soluţie (dip, key, liquor, resource, solution). (various references) | |
Russian | водяной (aquatic, aqueous, merman, river horse, water, water sprite, watery), жидкость ликвидный;жидкий;жидкостный, жидкость (fluid, liquor), жидкий (fluid, soupy, thin, washy, wishy washy), плавный (fluent, running, stepless). (various references) | |
Scottish | tlìgheachd. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tečnost (fluency, fluid, fluidity, liquor), tečan (flowing, fluent, fluid). (various references) | |
Spanish | líquido (fluid, molten, net, net payment, runny, splashy). (various references) | |
Swedish | vätska (dip, fluid, humor, humour, liquor, lotion). (various references) | |
Thai | ใส (เสียง), ใส (limpid), เป็นของเหลว, ไหลคล้ายน้ำ, ของเหลว (fluid). (various references) | |
Turkish | likit madde, likit, saydam (clear, hyaloid, pellucid, transparent), sıvı (fluid, soft, water), berrak (bright, brillant, clear, crystalline, distinct, just, limpid, lucent, lucid, obvious, pellucid, plain, serene, silvery, speaking, unclouded), akici (fluent), akıcı (diffluent, facile, fastmoving, flowing, fluent, fluid, mellifluous, runny, smooth, speaking, torrential, voluble), ıslak (damp, dank, moist, slobbery, sloppy, soppy, splashy, sticky, tacky, watery, wet). (various references) | |
Turkmen | suwuklyk, suwuk (fluid, thin), яuwan (sparse, watery). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рідкий (diffluent, fluid, rare, runny, slushy, sparse, thin, weak, wet), рідина (fluid, wash), прозорий (bright, clear, crystal clear, crystalline, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, pellucid, perspicuous, see through, sheer, transparent, unclouded), плавний звук, плавний (fluent, smooth, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lỏng trong trẻo, trong sáng dịu dàng, du dương không vững, chất lỏng, êm dịu (balmily, douce). (various references) | |
Welsh | hylif (fluid), gwlybwr (fluid, moisture, wet), gwlyb (fluid, wet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fusile, fusiles, fusili, fusilia, humore, humorem, latex, liq., liquidus, liquor. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | licour. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Song of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | SiagoneV autou wV fialai tou arwmatoV fuousai mureyika ceilh autou krina stazonta smurnan plhrh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Genae illius sicut areolae aromatum consitae a pigmentariis labia eius lilia distillantia murram primam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The chekes of hym as litle flores of swote spicis, plaunted of pymentaries; his lippis droppende the first myrre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet-smelling myrrh. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Song of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ang iyang mga aping ingon sa usa ka tugkanan sa igpapahumot, Ingon sa mga pangpang sa mga hilamon nga mahumot; Ang iyang mga ngabil ingon sa mga lirio, nagatulo sa mirra nga tubigon. |
| Croatian | Obrazi su njegovi kao lijehe mirisnog bilja, kao cvijeæe ugodno, usne su mu ljiljani iz kojih smirna teèe. |
| Danish | hans Kinder som Balsambede; Skabe med Vellugt, hans Læber er Liljer, de drypper, af flydende Myrra, |
| Dutch | Zijn wangen zijn als een bed van specerijen, als welriekende torentjes; Zijn lippen zijn als lelien, druppende van vloeiende mirre. |
| Finnish | Hänen poskensa ovat kuin balsamilava, kuin höystesäiliöt; hänen huulensa ovat liljat, ne tiukkuvat sulaa mirhaa. |
| German | Seine Backen sind wie Würzgärtlein, da Balsamkräuter wachsen. Seine Lippen sind wie Rosen, die von fließender Myrrhe triefen. |
| Hungarian | Az õ orczája hasonlatos a drága füveknek táblájához, &a melyek illatos plántákat nevelnek; &az õ ajkai liliomok, &melyekrõl csepegõ mirha foly. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pipinya seperti kebun rempah yang wangi, bibirnya bunga bakung yang meneteskan mur asli. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pipinya seperti petak pokok rempah-rempah, bagaikan bukit yang harum baunya, bibirnya bagaikan bunga bakung, yang bertitik-titik minyak mur. |
| Italian | Le sue guance, come aiuole di balsamo, aiuole di erbe profumate; le sue labbra sono gigli, che stillano fluida mirra. |
| Maori | Ko ona paparinga, ano he tupuranga kinaki kakara, ano he rarangi tarutaru reka; ko ona ngutu, me te mea he rengarenga e whakamaturu iho ana i te wai maira. |
| Norwegian | Hans kinner er som velluktende blomstersenger, som det vokser krydderurter i; hans leber er som liljer, de drypper av flytende myrra. |
| Portuguese | As suas faces são como um canteiro de bálsamo, os montões de ervas aromáticas; e os seus lábios são como lírios que gotejam mirra. |
| Rumanian | Obrajii lui sknt ca niwte straturi de mirezme, kn cari cresc saduri mirositoare; buzele lui sknt niwte crini, din cari curge cea mai aleasq smirnq. |
| Russian | ЭЕЛЙ ЕЗП--ГЧЕФОЙЛ БТПНБФОЩК, ЗТСДЩ ВМБЗПЧПООЩИ ТБУФЕОЙК; ЗХВЩ ЕЗП--МЙМЙЙ, ЙУФПЮБАФ ФЕЛХЮХА НЙТТХ; |
| Spanish | Sus mejillas son como almácigos de especias aromáticas, que exhalan perfumes. Sus labios son como lirios que despiden penetrante aroma. |
| Swedish | Hans kinder liknar välluktrika blomstersängar, skrin med doftande kryddor. Hans läppar äro röda liljor; de drypa av flytande myrra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "liquid": liquidambar, liquidambars, liquidate, liquidated, liquidates, liquidating, liquidation, liquidations, liquidator, liquidators, liquidities, liquidity, liquidize, liquidized, liquidizes, liquidizing, liquidly, liquidness, liquidnesses, liquids. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "liquid": illiquid, nonliquid, semiliquid, soliquid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "liquid": illiquidities, illiquidity, nonliquids, semiliquids, soliquids. (additional references) | |
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"Liquid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aliquid, iquid, lanquid, liduid, liqiud, liqo, liqu, lique, liqued, liqui, liquide, liquidem, Liquidi, liquidy, liquie, liquir, liquis, liquod, Lituya, liudi, lliquid, loqui, Lquid, Luque, lyudi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "liquid" (pronounced li"kwud) |
| 6 | l i" k w u d | illiquid. |
| 3 | -w u d | languid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-l-q-u" | |
-2 letters: quid. | |
-3 letters: dui, lid. | |
-4 letters: id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-q-u" | |
+1 letter: liquids. | |
+2 letters: illiquid, liquidly, soliquid. | |
+3 letters: liquefied, liquidate, liquidity, liquidize, liquified, nonliquid, qualified, soliquids. | |
+4 letters: disqualify, disquietly, liquidated, liquidates, liquidator, liquidized, liquidizes, liquidness, nonliquids, quadrivial, semiliquid. | |
+5 letters: illiquidity, liquidambar, liquidating, liquidation, liquidators, liquidities, liquidizing, quadrillion, qualifiedly, quitclaimed, reliquefied, requalified, semiliquids, unqualified. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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