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Cash vs Liquid - What's the difference?

cash | liquid |

As nouns the difference between cash and liquid

is that cash is money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions while liquid is 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.

As a verb cash

is to exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.

As a proper noun Cash

is {{surname}.

As an adjective liquid is

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

cash

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
  • After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash .
  • (informal) Money.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries
  • (Canada) Cash register.
  • (archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Sir W. (Temple)
  • This bank is properly a general cash , where every man lodges his money.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Sir R. (Winwood)
  • £20,000 are known to be in her cash .
    Derived terms
    * cashback * cash box * cash cow * cash flow * cash on the barrelhead * cash point * cash register * cold cash * take the cash and let the credit go
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (es)
  • To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
  • (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
  • Derived terms
    * cash in * cash in on * cash out * cash up

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (cash)
  • Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
  • Etymology 3

    See cashier.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To disband.
  • (Garges)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    liquid

    English

    (wikipedia liquid)

    Noun

  • (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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
  • (phonetics) An l'' or ''r sound.
  • * 1999 , Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity (page 86)
  • 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 extent. See fluid.

    Coordinate terms

    * solid * gas

    See also

    * fluid

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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
  • (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
  • (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
  • Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
  • a liquid melody
  • Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
  • L and R are liquid letters.
  • Fluid and transparent.
  • the liquid air

    Antonyms

    * (flowing freely) solid; gaseous * (easily sold) illiquid * (having sufficient activity) illiquid