OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 3828

liquid

/ˈlɪkwɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
líquido
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
liquid nitrogen
líquido
Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
📚 noun • entry_id 3827

liquid

/ˈlɪkwɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
líquido
A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an…
líquida
Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
Many female forenames are regarded as euphonyms. What is and is not euphonious is necessarily subjective, but it could be suggested that names containing labials (b, m), sibilants…
[…]-able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […]
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