Solid
Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.
Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.
Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.
A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
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Solid Quotations
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
Henry David Thoreau
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Newt Gingrich
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Solid Translations
solid in Afrikaans is stewig, ferm
solid in Danish is fast
solid in Dutch is flink, degelijk, deugdelijk, gedegen
solid in German is solide, stabil, massiv
solid in Latin is firmus
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