Acid

/ˈæsɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar..

Definitions by Sense

1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
2. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
4. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
5. A sour substance.
6. Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
7. Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
8. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.

Example Sentences

acid fruits or liquors

His response was harsh and acid.

His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.

It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse.

Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.

acid soils

Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.

SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.

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• acider
• acidest
• acids

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