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Fluid   /flˈuəd/  /flˈuɪd/   Listen
Fluid

noun
1.
A substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure.
2.
Continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas.
adjective
1.
Subject to change; variable.  Synonym: unstable.  "Everything was unstable following the coup"
2.
Characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape.  Synonym: runny.
3.
Smooth and unconstrained in movement.  Synonyms: fluent, liquid, smooth.  "The fluid motion of a cat" , "The liquid grace of a ballerina"
4.
In cash or easily convertible to cash.  Synonym: liquid.
5.
Affording change (especially in social status).  Synonym: mobile.  "Upwardly mobile"



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"Fluid" Quotes from Famous Books



... Greek, gustus and gustatio, [Greek: geusis], and [Greek: geusma], which all alike express the merely tentative or exploratory act of a praegustator or professional "taster" in a king's household: what, if applied to a fluid, we should ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... once more. The sun shone out pitilessly bright, and the surface earth looked, after a few hours, almost as dry as before. But the life-giving fluid had penetrated deep into the soil; the rivers and creeks were running; green grass was already springing up for the beasts to feed upon. The land was saved. Alas too late to save the ruined squatters. There were so ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed
... passing a low tract of sand, they perceived an unusual and gratifying spectacle; namely, a large number of Crabs and Crawfish—perhaps six or seven hundred—sitting by the water-side, and endeavoring to disentangle a vast heap of pale pink worsted, which they moistened at intervals with a fluid composed of ...
— Nonsense Books • Edward Lear
... see how Theophilus proceeds, after he has his tools in readiness, to construct a chalice. First, he puts the silver in a crucible, and when it has become fluid, he turns it into a mould in which there is wax (this is evidently the "cire perdu" process familiar to casters of every age), and then he says, "If by some negligence it should happen that the melted silver be not whole, cast it again until it ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... case of many, the interior parts were found mortified such as the lungs, which were so changed that no natural fluid could be perceived in them. The spleen was serous and swollen. The liver was legueux? and spotted, without its natural color. The vena cava, superior and inferior, was filled with thick coagulated and black blood. ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2 • Samuel de Champlain


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