Fluid

Quick meaning: Fluid is a noun meaning A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).

Meaning

A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).

More Meanings

1. (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.
2. (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
3. In a state of flux; subject to change.
4. Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
5. (of an asset) Convertible into cash.
6. Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
7. (rare) Genderfluid.

Example Sentences

Tenderness: is the lump tender? Composition: is the mass solid, fluid or gas?

Tom of the fluid pelvis, undulating about the living room in defiance of Michael's taboo on sensuality.

The Doctor: Get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluids. / Kes: Fluids? / The Doctor: Everybody should drink plenty of fluids.

The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send the fluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank.

Word Forms

• fluids

Synonyms for fluid

Depending on context, synonyms include liquid, variable, fluent, fluxive, runny, smooth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include liquid, fluent, runny, flowing, mobile, smooth.

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