liquid

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They dried the liquid into powder form in the microwave, and we all used it by snorting it.

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Quick take

a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of liquid gathered in one view.

noun

a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure

noun

the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

noun

fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for liquid.

noun

a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure

noun

the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

noun

fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume

noun

a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r')

adjective

existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"

adjective

filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"

adjective

clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"

adjective

changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"

adjective

smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness; "the liquid song of a robin"

adjective

smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"

adjective

in cash or easily convertible to cash; "liquid (or fluid) assets"

Example sentences

They dried the liquid into powder form in the microwave, and we all used it by snorting it.

Or do you pour a red liquid into the circle and fill it up, then drain it and measure the amount of red ?

Most trades move the market, even in super-liquid ones.

It omits to mention that a significant amount of cyanide was found in his stomach in liquid form.

The primary weapons of the protestors are: smoke, flammable liquid, rocks, shields and giant slingshots.

If you think the chance of liquidity is very low, then your expected value could effectively be zero.

The entire process of a level ticking away and a new price being formed in liquid tick-wide names plays out in microseconds these days.

This article is pure bullshit.> In one moment, an invisible trader placed a single trade that moved the most liquid debt market in the worldSo what?

When the body is finally perfused fully and dunked into liquid nitrogen...flash freezing isn't immediate.

Technically correct, but a better way to look at it might be to figure out a current value and the chance of the stock being liquid and coming to an expected value.

Normally you can't dry out a gel and have it retain its shape because the liquid/gas interface during evaporation/boiling has enough surface tension to tear apart the microstructure of the gel.

Pellet and re-suspend a small vial of cells to dilute out the media, replace with a special preservation media then dunk the entire 5mL vial in a big pot of liquid nitrogen for a few minutes.

That's where the distinction between gas and liquid vanishes -- the viscosity, index of refraction, etc of one phase approach those of the other until differences vanish altogether at the critical point.

Having watched three TSA officers debate for five minutes over whether or not peanut butter was a liquid and concluding that "well, peanut butter goes on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and we don't allow petroleum jelly through, so we don't allow peanut butter through either", I really am skeptical of this claim...