acid

See also: ACID, Acid, and àcid

English

Etymology

From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“I am sour”).

Pronunciation
  • enPR: ăs'ĭd, IPA(key): /ˈæs.ɪd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: a‧cid
  • Rhymes: -æsɪd

Adjective

acid (comparative more acid, superlative most acid)

  1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
    acid fruits or liquors
  2. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
    • 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,
      His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
      Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
  3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
  4. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

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Noun

acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)

  1. A sour substance.
  2. (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:
    1. Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
    2. Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid
    3. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
  3. (slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

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Derived terms
terms derived from “acid”
types of acid

See also

References
  • acid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [aˈt͡ʃid]

Adjective

acid m or n (feminine singular acidă, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)

  1. acid, acidic

Declension
declension of acid
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative		 indefinite acid acidă acizi acide
definite acidul acida acizii acidele
genitive/
dative		 indefinite acid acide acizi acide
definite acidului acidei acizilor acidelor

Noun

acid m (plural acizi)

  1. acid

Declension
declension of acid
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) acid acidul (niște) acizi acizii
genitive/dative (unui) acid acidului (unor) acizi acizilor
vocative acidule acizilor

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