{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈsɑləd" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/solid.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/solid.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide (as an adjective), from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, and sou." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.\nAlmost all metals are solid at room temperature." }, { "mean": "Large in size, quantity, or value.\n2015 July 8, “Rapper Meek Mill Charts His First Number One Album”, in Forbes:Almost a quarter of a million copies is really a solid number for today's record industry. In fact, that number is more than the last two number one albums\n2018 November 7, “Consumer borrowing up solid $10.9 billion in September”, in Journal Record:Americans increased their borrowing by a solid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge\n2018 November 7, Christian de Looper, “The best Google Assistant smart speakers you can buy”, in Business Insider:On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it.\nSynonyms: massive, substantial" }, { "mean": "Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.\nsolid gold\nsolid chocolate\n1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Ayrsham Mystery‎:The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked." }, { "mean": "Strong or unyielding.\na solid foundation\n2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport‎:As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline." }, { "mean": "(slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.\nThat's a solid plan.\nRadiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.\nI don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude." }, { "mean": "Hearty; filling.\na solid meal" }, { "mean": "Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.\n1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. , London: J M for James Allestry, , →OCLC:the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer\n1675, John Dryden, “To the Right Honourable, John, Earl of Mulgrave, ”, in Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. , London: T N for Henry Herringman, , published 1676, →OCLC:Theſe are they, who wanting Wit, affect Gravity, and go by the name of Solid men: and a ſolid man is, in plain English, a ſolid, ſolemn Fool.\n1875-1886, J. A. Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The revival of learning\nThe genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem." }, { "mean": "Financially well off; wealthy." }, { "mean": "Sound; not weak.\na solid constitution of body" }, { "mean": "(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.\nSynonyms: (as in closed compound) closed, closed up\nCoordinate term: hyphenation (noun)\nAmerican English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates." }, { "mean": "(printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open." }, { "mean": "(US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.\nThe delegation is solid for a candidate." }, { "mean": "Of a single color throughout.\nJohn painted the walls solid white.\nHe wore a solid shirt with floral pants." }, { "mean": "(of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.\nThe solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths." }, { "mean": "(dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.\nA solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches." }, { "mean": "(of volumes of materials) Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.\nCoordinate terms: loose, stacked" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas)." }, { "mean": "(geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve)." }, { "mean": "(informal) A favor.\nPlease do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.\nI owe him; he did me a solid last year.\n2010, Loren D. Estleman, Frames, page 54:Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me a solid.\n2012, Robert Cea, No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop, page 61:You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job.\n2013, Nicole Williams, Crush:Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. \"Thanks again, Thomas,\" I said, opening the door for him. \"I owe you a solid.\"" }, { "mean": "An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.\nI prefer solids over paisleys." }, { "mean": "(in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.\nThe doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Solidly.\n1870–1871, Mark Twain , Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company , published 1872, →OCLC:True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, \"Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see!\"\n1937 March 7, Marsh, “Dan Dunn-Secret Operative 48”, in Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune:Hm-m-—These papers are complete—They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs—ought to put me in more solid than ever with Miss Effie—and that home is good graft.\n1943, Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, →ISBN, page 246:Suppose, then, a whole family got sick with this flu, and no help around, and winter setting in solid and cold three weeks early?\n1943 July 16, “Dodger Rebellion Is Settled With One Dramatic Flourish”, in Youngstown (OH) Vindicator:set a new high in baseball for the year, not only ending speculation as to when Durocher would be fired but putting him in more solid than ever before.\n1960, P G Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:She was telling Bobbie about the time when Boko Fittleworth was trying to ingratiate himself with your Uncle Percy, and you very sportingly offered to go and call your Uncle Percy a lot of offensive names, so that Boko, hovering outside the door, could come in and stick up for him, thus putting himself in solid with him.\n1997, David Ambrose, Superstition, →ISBN, page 239:If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.\n2008, James Oliver Curwood, The Courage of Captain Plum, →ISBN, page 3:Then he drew a long-barreled revolver from under a coat that he had thrown aside and examined it carefully to see that the powder and ball were in solid and that none of the caps was missing\n2009 July 26, Rika Otsuka, “Nikkei hits 6-wk high on earnings hopes, Hitachi jumps”, in Reuters.com:Soichi Yamazaki, chief analyst at Fukoku Capital Management said Nidec Corp's (6594.OS) earnings came in more solid than expected on Friday" }, { "mean": "(not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.\nMany long-established compounds are set solid." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }