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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



... they actually expanded into four names, two Latin and two 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 denominate sipping. ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... care. With one hand he adjusted the focus of his microscope, while with the other he brought the sharp glass tip of the pipette into view. He released his thumb for a fraction of a second and let a drop of blue fluid flow into the ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... cup filled with quicksilver, a slight electric spark is emitted, and the stick placed at the other extremity of the copper ribbon makes an oscillation before its board. The communication of the fluid and the movement are quite simultaneous, no matter how ...
— The Orchestral Conductor - Theory of His Art • Hector Berlioz
... associates, and to recognise them with alacrity? The discomfort of its absence and the comfort of its possession. To that image is attached the chief satisfaction he knows, and the force of that satisfaction disentangles it before all other images from the feeble and fluid continuum of his life. What first awakens in him a sense of reality is what first is ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... the flesh, the little patient gave a sharp cry—the only sign of discomfiture displayed during the entire operation. When the hollow needle reached its destination, a few drops of a colorless liquid spurted out—the famous cerebro-spinal fluid, the substance which, like a water-jacket, envelops the brain and the spinal cord. Into this same place Dr. Jonnesco now introduced an ordinary surgical syringe, which he had previously filled with a pale yellowish liquid—the much-famed stovaine,—and slowly ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer


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