solid
- adjective
- /ˈsɑːlɪd/
- - Is it made of solid gold?
- solid waste
- municipal solid waste
- solid waste management
There's friction between the solid Earth and the moving water.
- There's friction between the solid Earth and the moving water.
- So it has a lot of, it's quite solid, a lot of grip to it.
- And it has like nice solid metal hardware on it.
- Yet his back was hard and solid to the touch.
Examples
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The statue is a solid piece of granite that has withstood the test of time.
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Down on solid ground and it feels great.
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It just feels so much more solid and well built and well constructed.
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You can hear conversations through solid walls for up to 250 yards.
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This door is six-inch-thick solid steel on a pressurized latch.
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The table is made of solid wood, which makes it very durable.
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For safety, always place heavy items on a solid surface when working.
Synonyms
Firm and not easy to bend, break, or pierce
Does not bend because it is stiff
Hard and solid to the touch, not easily pressed
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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Electronic devices that use solid materials like semiconductors instead of vacuum tubes
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A condition of a substance when it keeps its shape and does not flow, like rock or ice
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A 3D shape with all the same regular flat faces, like a cube or tetrahedron
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An area of physics that studies how solid materials behave with electricity, magnetism, and light
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A three-dimensional shape with identical regular flat faces, like a cube
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A solid metal in which atoms of other elements mix evenly into its structure
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A three-dimensional shape whose faces are the same flat shapes with all sides equal and equal angles between them
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Part of math about shapes that have length, width, and height like cubes, spheres, and pyramids
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A rocket that uses solid fuel to make hot gas and push it forward
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A solid mixture where atoms of one type go into another's crystal, like in alloys
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A measure that shows how much space an object appears to take from a point in three dimensions
How Solid
Surface Forms
Etymology
Solid comes from the Latin solidus, 'firm' or 'hard', and you can see the same idea in solidify, which means 'to become solid'. That's why we call something solid when it is hard and keeps its shape.