LIQUID | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of liquid in English liquidnoun uk /ˈlɪk.wɪd/ us /ˈlɪk.wɪd/

liquid noun (SUBSTANCE)

Add to word list Add to word list [ C or U ] a substance, such as water, that is not solid or a gas and that can be poured easily: Mercury is a liquid at room temperature.

• How much liquid do you think this bottle contains?
• Drain off any liquid that is left in the rice.
• The liquid suddenly solidifies into a gelatinous mass.
• Wax passes from solid to liquid when you heat it.
• Saliva is a liquid secreted by glands in or near the mouth.

Physics: the state of matter

• absorbency
• acidic
• allotropic
• compressible
• crystalline
• e-liquid
• gasses
• impervious
• melted
• photosensitive
• photosensitization
• photosensitizing
• polyunsaturated
• powdery
• rarefy
• reflective
• rustily
• rusty
• scaly
• sloppy

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liquid noun (SOUND)

[ C ]   phonetics   specialized (also liquid consonant) a consonant sound in which the tongue partly closes the mouth so that a sound similar to a vowel is made, for example l and r in English: Swift claimed that vowels and liquids were more typical of female speech. Japanese has only one liquid consonant. Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

• accommodation
• alliterative
• alliteratively
• alveolar
• apheresis
• bilabial
• diphthong
• glottal stop
• ingressive
• interdental
• intrusive
• labial
• mispronounce
• phonotactic
• phonotactics
• plosive
• postalveolar
• postconsonantal
• silent letter
• the International Phonetic Alphabet

See more results » liquidadjective uk /ˈlɪk.wɪd/ us /ˈlɪk.wɪd/

liquid adjective (SUBSTANCE)

in the form of a liquid: liquid hydrogen Compare runny thin adjective (FLOWING EASILY) having a very clear appearance similar to water: He is a handsome man with dark, liquid eyes. Physics: the state of matter

• absorbency
• acidic
• allotropic
• compressible
• crystalline
• e-liquid
• gasses
• impervious
• melted
• photosensitive
• photosensitization
• photosensitizing
• polyunsaturated
• powdery
• rarefy
• reflective
• rustily
• rusty
• scaly
• sloppy

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liquid adjective (MONEY)

in the form of money, rather than investments or property, or able to be changed into money easily: liquid asset She has very few liquid assets as most of her wealth is tied up in property. Related word liquidityOpposite illiquid Available and accessible

• accessibility
• accessible
• accessibly
• all day
• appear
• at your command idiom
• drop
• grab
• have something to play with idiom
• here
• in the public domain
• non-restricted
• nothing
• season
• stream
• turnkey
• unearmarked
• unfilled
• unfreeze
• unfrozen

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liquid adjective (MOVEMENT)

involving moving the body in a smooth and continuous way, especially when dancing: The girls had gathered into a liquid, dancing group. We admired the sweeping fluidity of the dancers' arms and their liquid spines. (Definition of liquid from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

liquid | American Dictionary

liquidnoun [ C/U ] us /ˈlɪk·wɪd/

liquid noun [C/U] (SUBSTANCE)

Add to word list Add to word list chemistry, earth science a substance that flows easily and is neither a gas nor a solid liquidadjective [ not gradable ] us /ˈlɪk·wəd/

liquid adjective [not gradable] (OF MONEY)

in the form of money, rather than investments or property, or able to be changed into money easily: liquid assets (Definition of liquid from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

liquid | Business English

liquidadjective uk /ˈlɪkwɪd/ us Add to word list Add to word list ACCOUNTING, FINANCE in the form of cash, or able to be changed into cash easily: People should hold some cash in more liquid investments for emergencies. In such situations, it's advisable to keep your assets liquid. Compare illiquid FINANCE having cash: The fund will typically invest in large liquid companies. FINANCE, STOCK MARKET if a market is liquid, it is easy to buy and sell in it, and a lot of buying and selling takes place: The foreign exchange market is the largest, most liquid market in the world. (Definition of liquid from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of liquid

liquid Thus, liquids in equilibrium in the magma chamber will react if simultaneously drawn up through the venting conduit. From the Cambridge English Corpus In neat liquids and solutions there is little short-range order, and at any instant different molecules are under the influence of randomly-differing local environments. From the Cambridge English Corpus All of the liquids used in the experiment were chemically of reagent grade. From the Cambridge English Corpus Fully breast-fed infants were breast-fed in addition to receiving non-nutritive liquids. From the Cambridge English Corpus Because of their high density, the mechanisms for moving sulphide liquids upwards must involve very high flow velocities. From the Cambridge English Corpus The two planes intersect along cd which is the locus of liquids in equilibrium with a silica polymorph + two feldspars + aqueous fluid. From the Cambridge English Corpus Evolved liquids produced by floor crystallization might simply mix with less-evolved magma above them. From the Cambridge English Corpus At the contact boundaries of liquids the random initial per turbations were specified. From the Cambridge English Corpus Crucial to a more complete understanding of the phenomenon are measurements and analyses of the statistical properties of turbulent velocity fields in drag-reducing liquids. From the Cambridge English Corpus Fricatives, affricates and liquids together accounted for only 6 % of sounds. From the Cambridge English Corpus The method involves one or more weeks of total fasting, except for liquids, minerals, and vitamins. From the Cambridge English Corpus There are more languages with greater numbers of laterals and "about 57% of the liquids reported are laterals". From the Cambridge English Corpus In liquids, this value can be obtained in both experiment and computer simulation by using the radial distribution function g(r). From the Cambridge English Corpus Postvocalic nasals did not differ reliably from postvocalic obstruents, although they were significantly more often grouped with the final consonant than liquids were. From the Cambridge English Corpus Scaling concepts for the dynamics of viscous liquids near an ideal glassy state. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of liquid These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of liquid?

Translations of liquid

in Chinese (Traditional) 液體, 物質, 液態的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 液体, 物质, 液态的… See more in Spanish líquido, líquido [masculine, singular]… See more in Portuguese líquido, consoante líquida, fluido… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian द्रवरूप… See more 液体, 液体（えきたい）, 液体（えきたい）の… See more sıvı, akıcı… See more liquide [masculine], liquide… See more líquid… See more vloeibaar, vloeistof… See more நீர் போன்ற ஒரு பொருள், அது திடமாகவோ அல்லது வாயுவாகவோ இல்லை, அதை எளிதாக ஊற்றலாம்… See more द्रव, तरल पदार्थ… See more પ્રવાહી… See more flydende, væske… See more flytande, vätska… See more cecair… See more flüssig, die Flüssigkeit… See more væske [masculine], flytende, væske… See more سیال, رقیق مادہ… See more рідкий, рідина… See more ద్రవం/ నీరు వంటి పదార్ధం, ఘన లేదా వాయువు కాదు మరియు సులభంగా పోయవచ్చు… See more তরল… See more tekutý, tekutina… See more cair, cairan… See more เหลว, ของเหลว… See more lỏng, chất lỏng… See more ciecz, płyn, ciekły… See more 액체… See more liquido… See more Need a translator?

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  • Noun 
    • liquid (SUBSTANCE)
    • liquid (SOUND)
  • Adjective 
    • liquid (SUBSTANCE)
    • liquid (MONEY)
    • liquid (MOVEMENT)
• American   
  • Noun 
    • liquid (SUBSTANCE)
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    • liquid (OF MONEY)
• Business   Adjective
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