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Definition: Solidly |
SolidlyAdverb1. As an undiversified whole; "the unions voted solidly for Roosevelt". 2. With strength and soundness; "a solidly built house". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "solidly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
Crosswords: Solidly |
| English words defined with "solidly": flush ♦ Groundly ♦ probabilism ♦ solid, square, square-built, squarely, strong, substantial ♦ tight ♦ unfirm, unsteady. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "solidly": covering power ♦ form tamper, FORM-TAMPER OPERATOR, form-tamping-machine operator ♦ hiding power ♦ Kick the Beam ♦ obliterating power, opacifying power ♦ pseudocrystalline ♦ separately derived system, solid crib timbering, stud-type chain ♦ tamping-machine operator, road forms. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "solidly": Groundly. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy. (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry.) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer with wheels and tires removed is supported solidly and safely on heavy wooden horses. The number of removed tires are carefully recorded. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles makes large numbers of. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The links of his chain were solidly welded. |
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Business | Sales strategies for these products focus on solidly positioning the brand by delivering concrete results from the physical activity for which it is used. U.S. equipment has strong sales potential in this market segment. (references) | |
Economic History | Luxembourg | Luxembourg has long been a prominent supporter of European political and economic integration and its economic health is solidly linked to that of its regional and EU partners. (references) |
India | Telecommunication services are expected to witness exponential growth rates, and this, in turn, will lead to a solidly upward growth trend in the telecommunication equipment market. (references) | |
Colombia | Despite all of its problems, Colombia ranks solidly with the group of progressive, industrializing countries worldwide that have well-diversified agriculture, resources, and productive capacities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Solidly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Solidly" is used about 232 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 232 | 19,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "solidly": system with neutral point solidly connected to earth. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "solidly": solidly-argued, solidly-based, solidly-built, solidly-grouped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "solidly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 坚实地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | net med direkte jordet nulpunkt (system with neutral point solidly connected to earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | net met star geaard sterpunt (system with neutral point solidly connected to earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suoraan maadoitettu verkko (system with neutral point solidly connected to earth), tähtipisteestään suoraan maadoitettu verkko (system with neutral point solidly connected to earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | solidement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | solide (firm, reasonable, respectable, sober, solid, sound, soundly, steady, stoutly, strong, strongly, sturdy, substantially, thorough, unexceptionable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύστημα σταθερά γειωμένου ουδέτερου σημείου (system with neutral point solidly connected to earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teljes egyetértésben, folyamatosan (constantly, continually, hourly, on end, seriatim), egyhangúan (unanimously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solo (alone, just, lone, lonely, lonesome, mere, only, single, sole, solitary, unaccompanied, unique, very), solidamente (strongly), all'unanimit (unanimously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | か弱い (be dejected, body trembling, calculating, chattering, Cheer up!, chipping, clash, clatter, crash, dry or rough feeling, feeble, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, firmly, frail, frozen solid, heartbroken, lose heart, overly serious, peanut brittle, rattle, rummage, rustling, shrewd, slam, solidly built, something come loose, tick-tock, tightly, tough, with a bang, with a clank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がっしり (firmly, tough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 단단하게 (hardly, stoutly, tightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olidlysay solidamente (substantially). (various references) solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massive, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), trainic (durable, fast, firmly, lasting, livelong, solid, strong, tough), temeinic (deep, profound, serious, solid, sound, thorough). (various references) твердо (firmly, sternly). (various references) solidno. (various references) sólidamente (soundly). (various references) direktjordat system (system with neutral point solidly connected to earth). (various references) ersmek (be firm, build firmly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Solidly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slidy, solidfy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "solidly" (pronounced sÄ"ludlē) |
| 5 | -l u d l ē | validly. |
| 4 | -u d l ē | acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, belatedly, candidly, contentedly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, doggedly, evenhandedly, excitedly, guardedly, heatedly, markedly, placidly, pointedly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, rigidly, ruggedly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, vividly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, wretchedly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-l-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: idylls. | |
-2 letters: dills, dilly, diols, doily, dolls, dolly, idols, idyll, idyls, lidos, odyls, silly, slily, sloid, sloyd, soldi, solid, yills. | |
-3 letters: dill, diol, doll, dols, idly, idol, idyl, ills, illy, lido, lids, lily, odyl, oils, oily, olds, oldy, sild, sill, silo, slid, soil, sold, soli, syli, yids, yill, yods. | |
-4 letters: dis, dol, dos, ids. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-l-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: disloyal, stolidly. | |
+2 letters: dollishly, doltishly, phylloids, soldierly. | |
+3 letters: disloyally, disloyalty, lopsidedly, polyploids, syllogized. | |
+4 letters: crystalloid, deliciously, deliriously, desultorily, dissolutely, glycolipids, ludicrously, lyophilised, melodiously, polysulfide, sigmoidally, unsoldierly. | |
+5 letters: crystalloids, desolatingly, despotically, disloyalties, domestically, episodically, idolatrously, indissolubly, libidinously, outlandishly, podophyllins, polyploidies, polysulfides, prosodically, ridiculously, sardonically, sinusoidally, spheroidally, sporadically, stridulously. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6C 69 64 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-.. .. -.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o l i d l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006C 0069 0064 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53817875707891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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