Fluid
['fluːɪd] or ['fluɪd]
Definition
(noun.) continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas.
(noun.) a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure.
(adj.) subject to change; variable; 'a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty'; 'everything was unstable following the coup' .
(adj.) affording change (especially in social status); 'Britain is not a truly fluid society'; 'upwardly mobile' .
(adj.) in cash or easily convertible to cash; 'liquid (or fluid) assets' .
(adj.) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape .
Inputed by Eunice--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
(n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Editor: Miles
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Liquid, not solid.
n. Liquid, liquor.
Inputed by Emilia
Definition
adj. that flows as water: liquid or gaseous.—n. a substance in which the particles can move about with greater or less freedom from one part of the body to another.—adjs. Flu′idal; Fluid′ic; Fluid′iform.—vs.t. Fluid′ify Flu′idise to make fluid.—ns. Flu′idism; Fluid′ity Flu′idness a liquid or gaseous state.—adv. Flu′idly.
Checker: Paulette
Examples
- How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They are called the two fluid batteries, because in place of a single acidulated bath in which the dissimilar metals were before placed, two different liquid solutions were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These are some of the same lot; they were made as follows: The meat was chopped, put into the preserving fluid for one night, and then mixed with the other material in the ordinary way. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Gerald was attractive, his blood seemed fluid and electric. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Blood's the word, said James, gulping the ruby fluid down. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mix, and add one-half its volume of pure coal-tar and boil to a fluid mass. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- To the one who is learning, it is fluid, partial, and connected through his personal occupations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Dentist's chairs have been developed until it is only necessary for the operator to turn a valve governing a fluid, generally oil, under pressure to raise or lower the chair and the patient. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Part of a fluid, having more of what it dissolves, will communicate to other parts that have less. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This matter of lightning or of electricity is an extreme subtile fluid, penetrating other bodies, and subsisting in them, equally diffused. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- My only food consisted of vegetable milk from the plants which gave so bounteously of this priceless fluid. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Acid sulphuric, a sufficient quantity to decompose the ammonia fluoride and making the mixture of a semi-fluid consistency. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Biot on the action of fluids on light, he placed the fluids in a trough formed by two plates of glass cemented together at an angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These machines use some 2,500 gallons of lubricating oils and 11,000 gallons of cutting fluids each day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Jan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish physician (1577-1644), was the first to apply the term, _gas_ to the elastic fluids which resemble air in physical properties. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Glass, water and other solids and fluids each have different powers of refraction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Later he learned to locate the cause within himself, and constructed the theory that the fluids of the body had become disordered. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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