Liquid

Quick meaning: Liquid is a noun meaning (phonetics) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.

Meaning

(phonetics) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.

More Meanings

1. (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
2. (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
3. Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
4. (phonology) Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
5. Fluid and transparent.
6. (physical chemistry) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
7. (physical chemistry) 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.

Example Sentences

the liquid air

liquid nitrogen

a liquid melody

/l/ and /r/ are liquid consonants.

Word Forms

• liquids

Synonyms for liquid

Depending on context, synonyms include fluid, flowy, fluxive, soft, clear, limpid.

Antonyms for liquid

Common opposites include gas, solid, gaseous, illiquid, unmelted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fluid, semiliquid, fusible, dissolved, liquefied, melted.

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