solid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French solide (as an adjective), from Latin solidus (“solid”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: sŏl'ĭd, IPA(key): /ˈsɑlɪd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒlɪd/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
solid (comparative more solid, superlative most solid)
- (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.
- Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
- Large in size, quantity, or value.
- 2015 July 8, “Rapper Meek Mill Charts His First Number One Album”, in Forbes:
- Almost a quarter of a million copies is really a solid number for today's record industry. In fact, that number is more than the last two number one albums
- 2018 November 7, “Consumer borrowing up solid $10.9 billion in September”, in Journal Record:
- Americans increased their borrowing by a solid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge
- 2018 November 7, Christian de Looper, “The best Google Assistant smart speakers you can buy”, in Business Insider:
- On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it.
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- Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Ayrsham Mystery:
- The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
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- Strong or unyielding.
- a solid foundation
- (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- That's a solid plan.
- Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.
- I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
- Hearty; filling.
- a solid meal
- Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
- (Can we date this quote?) J. A. Symonds
- The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Financially well off; wealthy.
- Sound; not weak.
- a solid constitution of body
- (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
- American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
- (printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
- (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
- The delegation is solid for a candidate.
- Of a single color throughout.
- John painted the walls solid white.
- He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
- (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
- The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
- (dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
- A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
Synonyms
- (large in size, quantity, or value): substantial, massive
Hyponyms
- rock-solid
Related terms
Translations
in the solid state
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large, massive
lacking holes or hollows
extremely filling
strong, unyielding (as of foundations etc)
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lacking errors or inconsistencies
typography: written as one word
of one color
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Noun
solid (plural solids)
- (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
- (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- (informal) A favor.
- Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.
- I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
- 2010, Loren D. Estleman, Frames, page 54:
- Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me a solid.
- 2012, Robert Cea, No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop, page 61:
- You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job.
- 2013, Nicole Williams, Crush:
- Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. "Thanks again, Thomas," I said, opening the door for him. "I owe you a solid."
- An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
- I prefer solids over paisleys.
- (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
- The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
Translations
chemistry: fundamental state of matter
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geometry: three-dimensional object
article of clothing of one color
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Adverb
solid (comparative more solid, superlative most solid)
- Solidly.
- 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, page 306:
- True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see!"
- 1937 March 7, Marsh, “Dan Dunn-Secret Operative 48”, in Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune:
- Hm-m---These papers are complete--They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs--ought to put me in more solid than ever with Miss Effie--and that home is good graft.
- 1943, Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, page 246:
- Suppose, then, a whole family got sick with this flu, and no help around, and winter setting in solid and cold three weeks early?
- 1943 July 16, “Dodger Rebellion Is Settled With One Dramatic Flourish”, in Youngstown (OH) Vindicator:
- set a new high in baseball for the year, not only ending speculation as to when Durocher would be fired but putting him in more solid than ever before.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- She was telling Bobbie about the time when Boko Fittleworth was trying to ingratiate himself with your Uncle Percy, and you very sportingly offered to go and call your Uncle Percy a lot of offensive names, so that Boko, hovering outside the door, could come in and stick up for him, thus putting himself in solid with him.
- 1997, David Ambrose, Superstition, page 239:
- If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.
- 2008, James Oliver Curwood, The Courage of Captain Plum, page 3:
- Then he drew a long-barreled revolver from under a coat that he had thrown aside and examined it carefully to see that the powder and ball were in solid and that none of the caps was missing
- 2009 July 26, Rika Otsuka, “Nikkei hits 6-wk high on earnings hopes, Hitachi jumps”, in Reuters.com:
- Soichi Yamazaki, chief analyst at Fukoku Capital Management said Nidec Corp's (6594.OS) earnings came in more solid than expected on Friday
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- (not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.
- Many long-established compounds are set solid.
References
- solid at OneLook Dictionary Search
Danish
Adjective
solid
- solid, robust
- strong
- substantial (e.g. et solidt måltid: a substantial meal)
- reliable
German
Alternative forms
- solide (both are roughly equally common)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zoˈliːt/
Audio (file)
Declension
Positive forms of solid
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist solid | sie ist solid | es ist solid | sie sind solid | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | solider | solide | solides | solide |
genitive | soliden | solider | soliden | solider | |
dative | solidem | solider | solidem | soliden | |
accusative | soliden | solide | solides | solide | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der solide | die solide | das solide | die soliden |
genitive | des soliden | der soliden | des soliden | der soliden | |
dative | dem soliden | der soliden | dem soliden | den soliden | |
accusative | den soliden | die solide | das solide | die soliden | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein solider | eine solide | ein solides | (keine) soliden |
genitive | eines soliden | einer soliden | eines soliden | (keiner) soliden | |
dative | einem soliden | einer soliden | einem soliden | (keinen) soliden | |
accusative | einen soliden | eine solide | ein solides | (keine) soliden |
Comparative forms of solid
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist solider | sie ist solider | es ist solider | sie sind solider | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | soliderer | solidere | solideres | solidere |
genitive | solideren | soliderer | solideren | soliderer | |
dative | soliderem | soliderer | soliderem | solideren | |
accusative | solideren | solidere | solideres | solidere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der solidere | die solidere | das solidere | die solideren |
genitive | des solideren | der solideren | des solideren | der solideren | |
dative | dem solideren | der solideren | dem solideren | den solideren | |
accusative | den solideren | die solidere | das solidere | die solideren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein soliderer | eine solidere | ein solideres | (keine) solideren |
genitive | eines solideren | einer solideren | eines solideren | (keiner) solideren | |
dative | einem solideren | einer solideren | einem solideren | (keinen) solideren | |
accusative | einen solideren | eine solidere | ein solideres | (keine) solideren |
Superlative forms of solid
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist am solidesten | sie ist am solidesten | es ist am solidesten | sie sind am solidesten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | solidester | solideste | solidestes | solideste |
genitive | solidesten | solidester | solidesten | solidester | |
dative | solidestem | solidester | solidestem | solidesten | |
accusative | solidesten | solideste | solidestes | solideste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der solideste | die solideste | das solideste | die solidesten |
genitive | des solidesten | der solidesten | des solidesten | der solidesten | |
dative | dem solidesten | der solidesten | dem solidesten | den solidesten | |
accusative | den solidesten | die solideste | das solideste | die solidesten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein solidester | eine solideste | ein solidestes | (keine) solidesten |
genitive | eines solidesten | einer solidesten | eines solidesten | (keiner) solidesten | |
dative | einem solidesten | einer solidesten | einem solidesten | (keinen) solidesten | |
accusative | einen solidesten | eine solideste | ein solidestes | (keine) solidesten |
Occitan
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 923.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soˈlid/
Adjective
solid m or n (feminine singular solidă, masculine plural solizi, feminine and neuter plural solide)
Synonyms
Further reading
- solid in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːd
Adjective
solid
Declension
Inflection of solid | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | solid | solidare | solidast |
Neuter singular | solitt | solidare | solidast |
Plural | solida | solidare | solidast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | solide | solidare | solidaste |
All | solida | solidare | solidaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. |
Related terms
- soliditet
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