SOLID


Meaning of SOLID in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a good/thorough/solid etc grounding

The aim of the course is to give students a thorough grounding in English pronunciation.

a solid/firm/strong base

A good education should give you a solid base for life.

a sound/firm/solid basis

Drama school may provide a sound basis for an acting career.

be booked solid (= all the seats, tickets etc are sold for a long period )

The restaurant’s booked solid for the whole of the Christmas period.

pure/solid gold

solid gold watches

solid fuel

solid fuel (= a solid substance, such as coal, that is used as a fuel )

The number of homes using solid fuel for heating has decreased.

solid mass

The road was blocked by a solid mass of protesters.

solid rock

Steps had been carved out of the solid rock.

solid silver

cups made of solid silver

solid silver

a solid silver brooch

solid wood

You can install a solid wood door.

solid/firm foundation

The course gives students a solid foundation in the basics of computing.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

Now the barriers were back in place, as solid and secure as though they had never been breached at all.

The result: a piece as solid and dependable as a sand castle in high tide.

It was as solid as rock.

The fetal membranes from older embryos are also best handled initially as solid tissue because of difficulties in their mechanical disaggregation.

The house is North Country Jacobean, as solid and safe as could be.

In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines, and the direct payments to them as broken lines.

Its critics list many, not all as solid as they sound: Too complicated.

His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees.

more

Perhaps his brothers were big too, but more solid .

When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food, I spent several days feeling depressed.

And it is proven to lead to stronger, more solid bones, relieve tension, depression and insomnia.

Neither one offers any thing more solid than a system of analogies.

By now Spurs' defence looked more solid .

It will no longer act as a spring but at least it will give the cabin a more solid base.

As I keep looking and forming shapes, however, something more solid begins to appear.

His previously gaunt frame had put on weight since Hong Kong and he was looking a little more solid .

so

Annie was so solid and content, she was like a shiny red apple.

But all couples can enhance their own relationships, making their marriages so solid that infidelity is unlikely to occur.

For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry, or perhaps only in a hurry.

very

I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank.

She sat down on a very solid patio chair and knew she was living a nightmare.

It was extremely well built, with buttresses along its eastern side and a very solid paved floor.

Jefferson came to Church youth work with very solid credentials.

He felt very solid and very big.

Not even Julius would be able to break his way through that very solid door.

Speelman has the reputation of being a very solid player with occasional flashes of mercurial originality and brilliance.

All this wet stuff was a legacy from a very solid , very watertight concrete pool of yore.

■ NOUN

base

They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region.

It will no longer act as a spring but at least it will give the cabin a more solid base .

The surface was soggy, but there was a solid base underneath.

Reagan kept a solid base of conservatives by holding fast to his principles.

Despite having a solid base , the rod is still contorted wildly beyond belief.

body

On the Labour side, there is a solid body of such members who inhabit the Tearoom.

A solid body that reaches the ground intact is called a meteorite.

The two columns of police merged into one solid body of four ranks, ten men to a rank.

The process continues until a solid body of successful generalizations has been established to serve as a reliable source of explanations.

This is the reason we can have solid bodies that do not collapse to a point or radiate away to infinity.

It behaves as a solid body of a particular mass and wind resistance ought to behave.

But it soon came to be realized that any breakaway plasma would disperse into the void rather than condense into solid bodies .

evidence

She didn't trust him, but without solid evidence she had no way of proving he was double-dealing.

In fact, we have little solid evidence of the effects of earlier waves of unemployment on old people.

And then, the prior's reluctant to make any accusations against Isambard but on good, solid evidence .

So much solid evidence and no research carried out whatever.

The investigators could not find any solid evidence of a crime.

There is little solid evidence , as yet, to answer such a question with confidence.

food

Careful observation of how the child manages pieces of solid food can be very informative.

When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food , I spent several days feeling depressed.

There is a critical or sensitive period for the introduction of solid food between 7 and 10 months of age.

On the phone I had been warned to take no solid food for three hours prior to the test.

Introducing solids A gradual thickening of baby food is often a preferable way to introduce more solid food.

Only earnest, solid food that had dough as its base truly interested her.

Finger foods can be introduced as a way of showing the child that solid food can have an interesting taste.

Yet Snyder continued the protest, demanding the parish make some unspecified commitment to the poor before he would take solid food .

form

In its solid form it poses no great risk.

At those temperatures and pressures, methane combines with water into a solid form called a gas hydrate.

Nevertheless, Cézanne had intuitively evolved a means of explaining the nature of solid forms in a new, very thorough way.

X-rays', would be seen by those artists as pictorial verifications of the insubstantiality of solid forms .

Picasso approached Cubism, however, primarily through his interest in analysing and investigating the nature of solid forms .

foundation

They dug solid foundations , spending a lot of time pouring concrete into four pits.

Local autonomy thus rested upon a solid foundation .

Decayed, warped and neglected, it stood proudly on its solid foundations , displaying a still sturdy brick frame.

Much like any brick or block wall, an interlocking block wall needs a solid foundation .

At the end of the first week you will have a solid foundation on which to build in future weeks.

They had a solid foundation in reading, writing, math, and other core skills.

City: Property without solid foundations Bricks and mortar were once thought to be be as good as money in the bank.

Such a person lived and, in a sense floated on the air, without a solid foundation .

gold

At Naïm, House of Hair &038; Beauty you can treat yourself to solid gold highlights!

Each piece is individually made in solid gold and set with the world's finest alternative to diamonds.

Quite often features of their palaces would be described as made of solid gold , which were in fact merely brass.

ground

At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property.

For centuries people have scoured the solid ground in search of the causes of these catastrophic events.

Water, not solid ground , lay beneath.

If these researchers are right, the ramifications of this continental shifting may also extend beyond the oceans and solid ground .

I sat on solid ground , my back against a tree.

Lowell, thrust into the present day and on to solid ground , agreed that he wasn't much good at it.

Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground .

line

They were in a solid line , between them and the gate.

The solid lines of certainty gave way to the broken lines of uncertainty.

There, stretching from the foreshore to the Wall, was a solid line of soldiers.

In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines , and the direct payments to them as broken lines.

The solid lines are the background spectrum and the dots are the spectrum measured over the cell.

The solid lines mark the edge of the mylar sheet, the dotted lines the boundary between the two motifs.

mass

To the Gaijin rear Jotan's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat.

The drained curd, now a solid mass , is turned out of the muslin and the really hard work of milling begins.

Walls can be cut half-way down or at either side to form dividing slabs rather than solid masses .

The hygroscopic mixture got damp; when the humidity went down again it caked into an intractable solid mass .

material

What remains is converted into solid material for elimination as faeces.

The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure.

Such was the case with the idea that hydrogen fusion might occur at moderate temperatures within solid materials .

This could result from a structural change in a single solid material , though no suitable materials are known.

matter

Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.

This new instrument found the first direct evidence of solid matter surrounding stars other than our Sun.

When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track.

It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.

Separating the solid matter for aerobic fermentation into manure also cuts the risk.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have now proved that solid matter of all kinds is mere illusion.

oak

The village will be made of solid oak and then exported, flat-pack style, to Tokyo.

His cell was eight by fifteen with a solid oak door supported by steel bands.

It is solid oak , not veneer.

Made from solid oak with veneered interiors, the wood has been limed to enhance the grain.

But the point is that it's solid oak .

The solid oak staff caught Guy a brutal blow on his wounded arm.

He was the only one who matched the colourfully embroidered wall-hangings and solid oak furniture of the private solar.

object

When the vibrations meet a solid object like a wall or window it will respond by vibrating,.

But the feat would be impossible if the wave were a solid object .

It is suggested that the bat hears echoes of its own squeaks rebounding from solid objects .

In fact, vibrations travel through solid objects at fixed speeds, just as sound travels through air at a fixed speed.

The signals reflected back from solid objects like these skulls form an image which can be enhanced by a computer.

And why are their legs so easily detached by seemingly light collisions with solid objects ?

Sound waves travel more easily through solid objects than through the air.

rock

From water level as you approach through the rock garden it looks like one solid rock barrier.

It marked the point where the solid rock of the mantle changed into molten iron.

Mr Glen said the bypass would have to be blasted out of solid rock .

When the cofferdams were finished, the engineers turned to the next task-stripping the canyon abutments to expose fresh clean solid rock .

About 1861 it was decided to map the superficial deposits in addition to the solid rocks and to show them on published maps.

From above, the sandstone looks like solid rock , terminating at a 20-foot cliff.

The solid rocks have been weathered to form loose soil.

Thirteen hundred workmen were blasting their way, day and night, through the solid rock , 160 feet below the town.

silver

The black brows knit, and solid silver laurels bobbed.

I can't really imagine it shedding that solid silver butcher's hook, but who knows?

It was used to produce a cheaper form of tableware than solid silver .

Lucker feels a tug, and reels in a beautiful sea trout, a bullet of solid silver muscle.

Solid value in solid silver will pay dividends, but will it show you a profit?

A miniature oak four-poster bed is £30 and a solid silver canteen of cutlery is £44.

Four coins from his mint there are extant; two of them are solid silver , and two are plated.

But it was solid silver - and the inscription must have cost a bit as well.

state

A series of simple push-buttons on the solid state device enables the required temperature range to be set precisely.

However, because of the two dithiadiazole functionalities at either end of the molecule, the solid state structure is polymeric rather than dimeric.

The rate at which solid state sintering occurs is approximately inversely proportional to the particle size involved.

Industrial problems involving lasers, solid state or quantum electronics and the development of materials to withstand exotic conditions are all interdisciplinary.

A crystal is just a large orderly array of atoms or molecules in the solid state .

Numerous 1,2 dithiadiazoles have been isolated and several solid state structures have been determined.

These solid state stereo units are only 1U high and fit into a 19 inch rack space.

support

It finds no solid support anywhere, either materially or intellectually.

As usual, Santos as the long-suffering Becker and Margolin as the insufferable Angel provide solid support .

wall

The area of solid wall became less and the design correspondingly more complex.

Within the solid walls of temple compounds in Kyoto or Nara, Charles began to relax.

Her hands tensed against the solid wall of his chest, feeling the warm, muscular tautness of him.

The people in front pushed back against the solid wall of humanity behind them.

It also has other economic advantages in that it requires fewer facing bricks than solid walls !

Simple stone cottages with solid walls are a good bet.

Some cold walls , especially in old houses with solid walls, draw atmospheric moisture to them, rather as windows do.

waste

Aluminium smelters are only one of a score of industries which now pollute the total environment with fluoride emissions and solid wastes .

Dissolved metals form a solid waste .

Last year solid waste totalled 227,000 tonnes but this is forecast to fall to 206,000 tonnes this year.

For many years, solid waste was incinerated.

The licensing of tip sites for the disposal of solid waste requires similar inspections.

Their goal is to recycle all air, water and solid wastes using mechanical and chemical processes as well as plants.

It is obvious from this that a family's solid wastes will not be adequate to meet their cooking needs.

Another employee group studied problems in solid waste , where waiting time at the Energy Recovery Plant was delaying drivers every afternoon.

wood

A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.

Occasionally, some one would use butcher block, solid wood , copper, stainless steel, marble or some other exotic surface.

Passing discreetly through the solid wood of the garage door he slid right into the skulking Omally.

The earliest glazing bars were quite thick, as they were hand cut from solid wood .

We custom-build beautiful kitchens in solid woods , or in any painted finish, to the very highest standards.

It also cleaned fire-charred beams and exposed the structural soundness of the underlying solid wood .

Choose from solid woods and a range of finishes.

Freeth introduced surfing to California on his 200-pound solid wood board.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(as) solid/steady as a rock

It was as solid as rock .

It was simply not admissible that something as blatantly solid as a rock could have come from the heavens.

Peter was as steady as a rock , keeping the ball on the fairway and hitting nearly every green in regulation.

Skipper Alan Kernaghan again led by example, with Nicky Mohan solid as a rock alongside him.

The door was solid as rock .

waste/solid/organic/vegetable etc matter

After all, it eventually produces waste matter .

Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.

It tells you just about how much organic matter is present.

It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.

Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.

The quantity needed may, however, vary according to the quantity of organic matter in the raw water.

Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter .

You can improve your soil by adding organic matter .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Solid colors would be more flattering than stripes.

a solid chocolate bunny

a solid gold necklace

a solid green background

a company with a solid reputation

After eight solid hours of driving, I was exhausted.

During winter the lake became a solid block of ice.

He rapped his knuckles against the body of the sink unit. It was as solid as a rock.

I was so seasick that it was a relief to be back on solid ground.

Is the baby eating solid foods yet?

Nobody really wants to sit through four solid hours of someone else's wedding video.

rows of solid little houses built of local stone

The antiques dealer guessed that the furniture was Victorian and solid mahogany.

The door was made of solid steel.

The figure was carved out of a solid block of wood.

The marchers were met by a solid wall of police officers.

The table seemed solid enough, so I climbed up onto it.

Wegman's writing combines solid reporting with a sense of humor.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Already they've scaled up their fluid star-burst psychedelia into something that sounds more suited to outdoor festivals than stuffed solid mini-venues.

For centuries people have scoured the solid ground in search of the causes of these catastrophic events.

However, because of the two dithiadiazole functionalities at either end of the molecule, the solid state structure is polymeric rather than dimeric.

She had it dribble with solid drops of wine.

Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground.

The doors of the church seemed less solid than the doors of his father's house.

This is solid work, the main essay in particular.

We have reached a level at which you see a solid round of profit-taking.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Water changes from a liquid to a solid when it freezes.

Whether you prefer solids or stripes, polo shirts are big for school this fall.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

However, unlike solids, the attractive forces are not sufficient to hold the particles together in a regular structure.

Notice that the magnitudes of the values for solids are much greater than those for gases.

The conducting properties of solids vary widely.

These solids are said to be amorphous.

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