Solid vs Dry - What's the difference?
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In the state of a solid; not fluid.
Large, massive.
Lacking holes or hollows; as solid gold, solid chocolate.
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(slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
Hearty; filling.
Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
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Sound; not weakly.
(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
(printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
(US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
Of a single color throughout.
(dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
(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).
(geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
(informal) A favor.
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An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
(in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
Solidly.
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(not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.
Free from liquid or moisture.
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(chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.
Thirsty; needing drink.
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(of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.
Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.
(of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.
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(of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.
(masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.
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(of animals) Not giving milk.
Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.
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(fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.
To lose moisture.
To remove moisture from.
(ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.
In chemistry terms the difference between solid and dry
is that solid is 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) while dry is free of water in any state; anhydrous.As a noun solid
is 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).As an adverb solid
is solidly.As a verb dry is
to lose moisture.solid
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Adjective
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- a solid foundation
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- That's a solid plan.
- Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid .
- I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
- a solid meal
- the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer
- These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
- The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.
- a solid constitution of body
- American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
- The delegation is solid for a candidate.
- John painted the walls solid white.
- He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
- A solid''' foot contains 1,728 '''solid inches.
Noun
(wikipedia solid) (en noun)- Please do me a solid : lend me your car for one week.
- I owe him, he did me a solid last year.
- I prefer solids over paisleys.
- The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
Adverb
(en adverb)- Many long-established compounds are set solid .
Anagrams
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.
- Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
- Give the dry fool drink.
- He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.
- These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.
Synonyms
* (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parchedAntonyms
* (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wetDerived terms
* bone dry * dry as a bone * dry as a dead dingo’s donger * dry cough * dry hole * dry ice * drily * dry run * dryly * dryness * dry spell * drywall * dry weight * like watching paint dryEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- The clothes dried on the line.
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- Their sources of income dried up.
- The stream of chatter dried up.