I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/thorough/solid etc grounding
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The aim of the course is to give students a thorough grounding in English pronunciation.
a solid/firm/strong base
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A good education should give you a solid base for life.
a sound/firm/solid basis
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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 )
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The restaurant’s booked solid for the whole of the Christmas period.
pure/solid gold
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solid gold watches
solid fuel
solid fuel (= a solid substance, such as coal, that is used as a fuel )
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The number of homes using solid fuel for heating has decreased.
solid mass
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The road was blocked by a solid mass of protesters.
solid rock
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Steps had been carved out of the solid rock.
solid silver
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cups made of solid silver
solid silver
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a solid silver brooch
solid wood
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You can install a solid wood door.
solid/firm foundation
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The course gives students a solid foundation in the basics of computing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Now the barriers were back in place, as solid and secure as though they had never been breached at all.
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The result: a piece as solid and dependable as a sand castle in high tide.
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It was as solid as rock.
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The fetal membranes from older embryos are also best handled initially as solid tissue because of difficulties in their mechanical disaggregation.
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The house is North Country Jacobean, as solid and safe as could be.
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In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines, and the direct payments to them as broken lines.
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Its critics list many, not all as solid as they sound: Too complicated.
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His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees.
more
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Perhaps his brothers were big too, but more solid .
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When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food, I spent several days feeling depressed.
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And it is proven to lead to stronger, more solid bones, relieve tension, depression and insomnia.
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Neither one offers any thing more solid than a system of analogies.
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By now Spurs' defence looked more solid .
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It will no longer act as a spring but at least it will give the cabin a more solid base.
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As I keep looking and forming shapes, however, something more solid begins to appear.
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His previously gaunt frame had put on weight since Hong Kong and he was looking a little more solid .
so
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Annie was so solid and content, she was like a shiny red apple.
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But all couples can enhance their own relationships, making their marriages so solid that infidelity is unlikely to occur.
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For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry, or perhaps only in a hurry.
very
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I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank.
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She sat down on a very solid patio chair and knew she was living a nightmare.
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It was extremely well built, with buttresses along its eastern side and a very solid paved floor.
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Jefferson came to Church youth work with very solid credentials.
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He felt very solid and very big.
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Not even Julius would be able to break his way through that very solid door.
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Speelman has the reputation of being a very solid player with occasional flashes of mercurial originality and brilliance.
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All this wet stuff was a legacy from a very solid , very watertight concrete pool of yore.
■ NOUN
base
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They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region.
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It will no longer act as a spring but at least it will give the cabin a more solid base .
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The surface was soggy, but there was a solid base underneath.
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Reagan kept a solid base of conservatives by holding fast to his principles.
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Despite having a solid base , the rod is still contorted wildly beyond belief.
body
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On the Labour side, there is a solid body of such members who inhabit the Tearoom.
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A solid body that reaches the ground intact is called a meteorite.
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The two columns of police merged into one solid body of four ranks, ten men to a rank.
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The process continues until a solid body of successful generalizations has been established to serve as a reliable source of explanations.
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This is the reason we can have solid bodies that do not collapse to a point or radiate away to infinity.
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It behaves as a solid body of a particular mass and wind resistance ought to behave.
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But it soon came to be realized that any breakaway plasma would disperse into the void rather than condense into solid bodies .
evidence
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She didn't trust him, but without solid evidence she had no way of proving he was double-dealing.
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In fact, we have little solid evidence of the effects of earlier waves of unemployment on old people.
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And then, the prior's reluctant to make any accusations against Isambard but on good, solid evidence .
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So much solid evidence and no research carried out whatever.
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The investigators could not find any solid evidence of a crime.
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There is little solid evidence , as yet, to answer such a question with confidence.
food
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Careful observation of how the child manages pieces of solid food can be very informative.
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When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food , I spent several days feeling depressed.
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There is a critical or sensitive period for the introduction of solid food between 7 and 10 months of age.
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On the phone I had been warned to take no solid food for three hours prior to the test.
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Introducing solids A gradual thickening of baby food is often a preferable way to introduce more solid food.
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Only earnest, solid food that had dough as its base truly interested her.
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Finger foods can be introduced as a way of showing the child that solid food can have an interesting taste.
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Yet Snyder continued the protest, demanding the parish make some unspecified commitment to the poor before he would take solid food .
form
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In its solid form it poses no great risk.
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At those temperatures and pressures, methane combines with water into a solid form called a gas hydrate.
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Nevertheless, Cézanne had intuitively evolved a means of explaining the nature of solid forms in a new, very thorough way.
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X-rays', would be seen by those artists as pictorial verifications of the insubstantiality of solid forms .
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Picasso approached Cubism, however, primarily through his interest in analysing and investigating the nature of solid forms .
foundation
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They dug solid foundations , spending a lot of time pouring concrete into four pits.
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Local autonomy thus rested upon a solid foundation .
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Decayed, warped and neglected, it stood proudly on its solid foundations , displaying a still sturdy brick frame.
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Much like any brick or block wall, an interlocking block wall needs a solid foundation .
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At the end of the first week you will have a solid foundation on which to build in future weeks.
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They had a solid foundation in reading, writing, math, and other core skills.
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City: Property without solid foundations Bricks and mortar were once thought to be be as good as money in the bank.
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Such a person lived and, in a sense floated on the air, without a solid foundation .
gold
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At Naïm, House of Hair &038; Beauty you can treat yourself to solid gold highlights!
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Each piece is individually made in solid gold and set with the world's finest alternative to diamonds.
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Quite often features of their palaces would be described as made of solid gold , which were in fact merely brass.
ground
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At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property.
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For centuries people have scoured the solid ground in search of the causes of these catastrophic events.
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Water, not solid ground , lay beneath.
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If these researchers are right, the ramifications of this continental shifting may also extend beyond the oceans and solid ground .
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I sat on solid ground , my back against a tree.
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Lowell, thrust into the present day and on to solid ground , agreed that he wasn't much good at it.
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Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground .
line
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They were in a solid line , between them and the gate.
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The solid lines of certainty gave way to the broken lines of uncertainty.
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There, stretching from the foreshore to the Wall, was a solid line of soldiers.
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In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines , and the direct payments to them as broken lines.
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The solid lines are the background spectrum and the dots are the spectrum measured over the cell.
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The solid lines mark the edge of the mylar sheet, the dotted lines the boundary between the two motifs.
mass
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To the Gaijin rear Jotan's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat.
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The drained curd, now a solid mass , is turned out of the muslin and the really hard work of milling begins.
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Walls can be cut half-way down or at either side to form dividing slabs rather than solid masses .
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The hygroscopic mixture got damp; when the humidity went down again it caked into an intractable solid mass .
material
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What remains is converted into solid material for elimination as faeces.
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The glass transition Glass, familiar for centuries, is a solid material showing no crystalline structure.
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Such was the case with the idea that hydrogen fusion might occur at moderate temperatures within solid materials .
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This could result from a structural change in a single solid material , though no suitable materials are known.
matter
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Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.
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This new instrument found the first direct evidence of solid matter surrounding stars other than our Sun.
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When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track.
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It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.
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Separating the solid matter for aerobic fermentation into manure also cuts the risk.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have now proved that solid matter of all kinds is mere illusion.
oak
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The village will be made of solid oak and then exported, flat-pack style, to Tokyo.
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His cell was eight by fifteen with a solid oak door supported by steel bands.
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It is solid oak , not veneer.
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Made from solid oak with veneered interiors, the wood has been limed to enhance the grain.
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But the point is that it's solid oak .
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The solid oak staff caught Guy a brutal blow on his wounded arm.
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He was the only one who matched the colourfully embroidered wall-hangings and solid oak furniture of the private solar.
object
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When the vibrations meet a solid object like a wall or window it will respond by vibrating,.
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But the feat would be impossible if the wave were a solid object .
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It is suggested that the bat hears echoes of its own squeaks rebounding from solid objects .
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In fact, vibrations travel through solid objects at fixed speeds, just as sound travels through air at a fixed speed.
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The signals reflected back from solid objects like these skulls form an image which can be enhanced by a computer.
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And why are their legs so easily detached by seemingly light collisions with solid objects ?
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Sound waves travel more easily through solid objects than through the air.
rock
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From water level as you approach through the rock garden it looks like one solid rock barrier.
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It marked the point where the solid rock of the mantle changed into molten iron.
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Mr Glen said the bypass would have to be blasted out of solid rock .
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When the cofferdams were finished, the engineers turned to the next task-stripping the canyon abutments to expose fresh clean solid rock .
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About 1861 it was decided to map the superficial deposits in addition to the solid rocks and to show them on published maps.
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From above, the sandstone looks like solid rock , terminating at a 20-foot cliff.
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The solid rocks have been weathered to form loose soil.
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Thirteen hundred workmen were blasting their way, day and night, through the solid rock , 160 feet below the town.
silver
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The black brows knit, and solid silver laurels bobbed.
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I can't really imagine it shedding that solid silver butcher's hook, but who knows?
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It was used to produce a cheaper form of tableware than solid silver .
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Lucker feels a tug, and reels in a beautiful sea trout, a bullet of solid silver muscle.
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Solid value in solid silver will pay dividends, but will it show you a profit?
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A miniature oak four-poster bed is £30 and a solid silver canteen of cutlery is £44.
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Four coins from his mint there are extant; two of them are solid silver , and two are plated.
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But it was solid silver - and the inscription must have cost a bit as well.
state
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A series of simple push-buttons on the solid state device enables the required temperature range to be set precisely.
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However, because of the two dithiadiazole functionalities at either end of the molecule, the solid state structure is polymeric rather than dimeric.
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The rate at which solid state sintering occurs is approximately inversely proportional to the particle size involved.
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Industrial problems involving lasers, solid state or quantum electronics and the development of materials to withstand exotic conditions are all interdisciplinary.
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A crystal is just a large orderly array of atoms or molecules in the solid state .
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Numerous 1,2 dithiadiazoles have been isolated and several solid state structures have been determined.
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These solid state stereo units are only 1U high and fit into a 19 inch rack space.
support
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It finds no solid support anywhere, either materially or intellectually.
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As usual, Santos as the long-suffering Becker and Margolin as the insufferable Angel provide solid support .
wall
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The area of solid wall became less and the design correspondingly more complex.
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Within the solid walls of temple compounds in Kyoto or Nara, Charles began to relax.
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Her hands tensed against the solid wall of his chest, feeling the warm, muscular tautness of him.
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The people in front pushed back against the solid wall of humanity behind them.
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It also has other economic advantages in that it requires fewer facing bricks than solid walls !
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Simple stone cottages with solid walls are a good bet.
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Some cold walls , especially in old houses with solid walls, draw atmospheric moisture to them, rather as windows do.
waste
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Aluminium smelters are only one of a score of industries which now pollute the total environment with fluoride emissions and solid wastes .
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Dissolved metals form a solid waste .
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Last year solid waste totalled 227,000 tonnes but this is forecast to fall to 206,000 tonnes this year.
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For many years, solid waste was incinerated.
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The licensing of tip sites for the disposal of solid waste requires similar inspections.
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Their goal is to recycle all air, water and solid wastes using mechanical and chemical processes as well as plants.
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It is obvious from this that a family's solid wastes will not be adequate to meet their cooking needs.
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Another employee group studied problems in solid waste , where waiting time at the Energy Recovery Plant was delaying drivers every afternoon.
wood
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A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.
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Occasionally, some one would use butcher block, solid wood , copper, stainless steel, marble or some other exotic surface.
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Passing discreetly through the solid wood of the garage door he slid right into the skulking Omally.
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The earliest glazing bars were quite thick, as they were hand cut from solid wood .
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We custom-build beautiful kitchens in solid woods , or in any painted finish, to the very highest standards.
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It also cleaned fire-charred beams and exposed the structural soundness of the underlying solid wood .
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Choose from solid woods and a range of finishes.
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Freeth introduced surfing to California on his 200-pound solid wood board.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(as) solid/steady as a rock
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It was as solid as rock .
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It was simply not admissible that something as blatantly solid as a rock could have come from the heavens.
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Peter was as steady as a rock , keeping the ball on the fairway and hitting nearly every green in regulation.
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Skipper Alan Kernaghan again led by example, with Nicky Mohan solid as a rock alongside him.
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The door was solid as rock .
waste/solid/organic/vegetable etc matter
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After all, it eventually produces waste matter .
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Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.
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It tells you just about how much organic matter is present.
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It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.
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Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
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The quantity needed may, however, vary according to the quantity of organic matter in the raw water.
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Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter .
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You can improve your soil by adding organic matter .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Solid colors would be more flattering than stripes.
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a solid chocolate bunny
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a solid gold necklace
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a solid green background
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a company with a solid reputation
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After eight solid hours of driving, I was exhausted.
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During winter the lake became a solid block of ice.
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He rapped his knuckles against the body of the sink unit. It was as solid as a rock.
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I was so seasick that it was a relief to be back on solid ground.
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Is the baby eating solid foods yet?
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Nobody really wants to sit through four solid hours of someone else's wedding video.
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rows of solid little houses built of local stone
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The antiques dealer guessed that the furniture was Victorian and solid mahogany.
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The door was made of solid steel.
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The figure was carved out of a solid block of wood.
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The marchers were met by a solid wall of police officers.
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The table seemed solid enough, so I climbed up onto it.
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Wegman's writing combines solid reporting with a sense of humor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already they've scaled up their fluid star-burst psychedelia into something that sounds more suited to outdoor festivals than stuffed solid mini-venues.
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For centuries people have scoured the solid ground in search of the causes of these catastrophic events.
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However, because of the two dithiadiazole functionalities at either end of the molecule, the solid state structure is polymeric rather than dimeric.
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She had it dribble with solid drops of wine.
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Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground.
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The doors of the church seemed less solid than the doors of his father's house.
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This is solid work, the main essay in particular.
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We have reached a level at which you see a solid round of profit-taking.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Water changes from a liquid to a solid when it freezes.
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Whether you prefer solids or stripes, polo shirts are big for school this fall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, unlike solids, the attractive forces are not sufficient to hold the particles together in a regular structure.
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Notice that the magnitudes of the values for solids are much greater than those for gases.
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The conducting properties of solids vary widely.
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These solids are said to be amorphous.