liquid

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid. countable,physical,uncountable
    — A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
  2. Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r. countable,uncountable
    — Many female forenames are regarded as euphonyms. What is and is not euphonious is necessarily subjective, but it could be suggested that names containing labials (b, m), sibilants (s, sh) and liquids (l, r) are more likely to be euphonyms than those that do not.
形容词 adj.
  1. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure. physical
    — liquid nitrogen
  2. Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
  3. Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
  4. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
    — a liquid melody
  5. Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
    — /l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.
  6. Fluid and transparent.
    — the liquid air

词形变化

liquids plural more liquid comparative most liquid superlative

词汇关系

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词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti
Proto-Italic *wlikʷēō
Latin liqueō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin liquidusbor.
Old French liquidebor.
Middle English liquide
English liquid
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *wlikʷ-éh₁-ye-ti
Proto-Italic *wlikʷēō
Latin liqueō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin liquidusbor.
Old French liquidebor.
Middle English liquide
English liquid
From Middle English liquide, from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid, moist”), from liqueō (“to be liquid, be fluid”). Doublet of liquidus. As a term for a consonant, it comes from Latin liquida (cōnsōnāns), a calque of Ancient Greek ὑγρὸν (σύμφωνον) (hugròn (súmphōnon), “liquid consonant”).
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