fluid
Meaning
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- Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
- A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
- (colloquial) Intravenous fluids.
Synonyms
in easy circumstances
on easy street
succus
liquidum
uncrannied
liq
liquid fluid medium
debonair
debonnaire
lymph
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfluːɪd/
Etymology
From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-.
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