What is the difference between sour and acid?
sour | acid |
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
* Francis Bacon
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Tasting or smelling rancid.
Peevish or bad-tempered.
* Shakespeare
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
* Shakespeare
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The sensation of a sour taste.
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
(label) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
(label) To make sour.
(label) To become sour.
* Jonathan Swift
(label) To make disenchanted.
* Shakespeare
(label) To become disenchanted.
(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
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(lb) Sour-tempered.
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:He was stern and his face as acid as ever.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
(lb) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
A sour substance.
(chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-
# Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
# Any compound that easily donates protons; a
# Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
(slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
As adjectives the difference between sour and acid
is that sour is having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste while acid is sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.As nouns the difference between sour and acid
is that sour is the sensation of a sour taste while acid is a sour substance.As a verb sour
is to make sour.sour
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) sowrAdjective
(er)- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
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- He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
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- sour adversity
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Noun
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Derived terms
* laundry sourVerb
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
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