Liquid

English

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A liquid—water—flowing out of a bottle

Etymology

< Middle English liquide < Old French liquide < Latin liquidus (“‘fluid, liquid, moist’”) < liquere (“‘to be liquid, be fluid’”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɪkwɪd/, SAMPA: /"lIkwId/
• enPR: lɪk'wɪd

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Noun

Singular Liquid

Plural s

Liquid (s)

1. Template:Physics 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.

   A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.

2. Template:Phonetics An l or r sound.

Usage notes

The differentiation of a liquid as an incompressible fluid is not strictly correct, experiment having shown that liquids are compressible to a very limited extend. See fluid.

Coordinate terms

• solid
• gas

Related terms

• liquidate
• liquidation
• liquidizer
• liquor

Translations

substance that is liquid

Arabic: سائل ar(ar) (saa'il) m., مائع ar(ar) (maa'i3) m. Armenian: հեղուկ hy(hy) (heġuk) Chinese: Mandarin: 液體 cmn(cmn), 液体 cmn(cmn) (yètǐ), 液態 cmn(cmn), 液态 cmn(cmn) (yètài) Croatian: tekùćina hr(hr) f. Czech: kapalina cs(cs) f., tekutina cs(cs) f. Danish: væske da(da) c. Dutch: vloeistof nl(nl) f. Finnish: neste fi(fi) French: liquide fr(fr) m. German: Flüssigkeit de(de) f. Hebrew: נוזל he(he) (nozel)

Hungarian: folyadék hu(hu), lé hu(hu) Japanese: 液体 ja(ja) (えきたい, ekitai), 流体 ja(ja) (りゅうたい, ryūtai) Korean: 액체 ko(ko) (aegche) Latvian: šķidrums lv(lv) m. Macedonian: течност mk(mk) (téčnost) f. Polish: ciecz pl(pl) f. Portuguese: líquido pt(pt) m. Russian: жидкость ru(ru) (žídkost') f. Slovene: tekočina sl(sl) f. Spanish: líquido es(es) m. Swahili: majimaji sw(sw) Turkish: sıvı tr(tr)

l or r sound

Croatian: lìkvida hr(hr) f., tèkūćnīk hr(hr) m. Finnish: likvida fi(fi)

Russian: плавный звук ru(ru) (plávnyj zvuk) m. Slovene: likvida sl(sl) f.

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Afrikaans: vloeistof Arabic: محلول (maħlūl) m. Estonian: vedelik French: liquide fr(fr) m. Greek: υγρό (igró) n. (1,2) Hebrew: נוזל (nozél) m. Icelandic: vökvi Indonesian: cairan Interlingua: liquido Italian: liquido it(it) m.

Lithuanian: skystis m. Malay: cecair Norwegian: væske f. Romanian: lichid ro(ro) n. Serbian: tečno n. Slovak: tekutina sk(sk) f. Slovene: tekočina f. Spanish: líquido es(es) m. Swedish: vätska sv(sv) Telugu: ద్రవం (dravam)

See also

• fluid

Adjective

Liquid (comparative {{{1}}}, superlative {{{2}}})

Positive Liquid

Comparative {{{1}}}

Superlative {{{2}}}

1. Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.

   liquid nitrogen

2. (finance) Of an asset, easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
3. (finance) Of a market, having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
   • 2005, xpresstrade.com [1]

     The spot foreign exchange market is the world’s largest and most liquid financial market. With a daily trading volume of over $1.5 trillion, the spot forex market can absorb trading sizes that dwarf the capacity of any other market.

Antonyms

• illiquid

Related terms

• liquefiable
• liquefy
• liquidity
• liquify

Translations

fluid; not solid and not gaseous

Armenian: հեղուկ (heġuk) Croatian: tèkūćī hr(hr), žȉdak hr(hr) Czech: tekutý cs(cs) m., kapalný cs(cs) m. Danish: flydende da(da) Dutch: vloeibaar, vloeibare Finnish: nestemäinen fi(fi), neste- fi(fi) (in compounds) French: liquide fr(fr) m. and f. German: flüssig de(de) Hebrew: נוזלי he(he) (nozlí) m., נוזלית he(he) (nozlít) f. Hungarian: folyékony hu(hu) Interlingua: liquide Latvian: šķidrs m., šķidra f.

Lithuanian: skystas m. Norwegian: flytende no(no) Polish: ciekły pl(pl) m., płynny pl(pl) m. Portuguese: líquido pt(pt) Romanian: lichid ro(ro) m., lichidă ro(ro) f. Russian: жидкий ru(ru) (žídkij) Slovak: tekutý m., tekutá f., tekuté n. Slovene: tekoče n., tekoč sl(sl) m., tekoča sl(sl) f. Spanish: líquido es(es) Swahili: majimaji sw(sw) Swedish: flytande sv(sv) Turkish: sıvı tr(tr)

of an asset, easily sold or disposed of

Armenian: լիկվիդային (likvidayin) Croatian: lȉkvīdan hr(hr) Czech: likvidní cs(cs) Finnish: likvidi fi(fi) French: liquide fr(fr) m. and f. German: disponibel de(de) Hebrew: נזיל he(he) (nazil) Latvian: likvīds m., likvīda f. Lithuanian: : likvidus m.

Norwegian: likvid no(no) Polish: płynny pl(pl) m. Portuguese: líquido pt(pt) Russian: ликвидный ru(ru) (likvídnyj) Slovak: likvidné n. Slovene: likvidno sl(sl) n., likviden sl(sl) m., likvidna sl(sl) f. Spanish: líquido es(es) Swahili: majimaji sw(sw)

of a market, having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy

Croatian: lȉkvīdan hr(hr) Finnish: likvidi fi(fi) Polish: płynny pl(pl) m.

Portuguese: líquido pt(pt) Swahili: majimaji sw(sw)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

Lithuanian: skysta f., likvidi f. Slovak: likvidný m., likvidná f. Slovene: tekoč m., tekoča f. Telugu: ద్రవ (drava)

External links

• Liquid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Liquid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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