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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | financially sound |
| Synonyms: | able to pay, financially stable, firm, fit, in the pink, out of the red, solid, stable |
| Notes: | a solute is a substance dissolved in another substance, which is the solvent |
| Main Entry: | economic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | business-related; financial |
| Synonyms: | bread-and-butter, budgetary, commercial, fiscal, industrial, material, mercantile, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, productive, profit-making, profitable, remunerative, solvent, viable |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Main Entry: | liquid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fluid, flowing, melting |
| Synonyms: | aqueous, damp, deliquescent, dissolvable, dissolved, dulcet, fluent, fluidic, fusible, ichorous, juicy, liquefied, liquescent, liquiform, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, meltable, melted, moist, molten, moving, pulpy, running, runny, sappy, serous, smooth, soft, solvent, splashing, succulent, thawed, thin, uncongealed, viscous, watery, wet |
| Notes: | fluids include liquids and gases; a liquid is a fluid with a fixed volume, and a gas is a fluid that can expand indefinitely liquid is a substance that flows and takes on the form of its container; a fluid - substance with no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure - can be a liquid but it can also be a gas |
| Antonyms: | close, condensed, dense, firm, hard, solid |
| Main Entry: | liquor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drink; alcoholic beverage |
| Synonyms: | alcohol, aqua vitae, booze, broth, decoction, drinkable, elixir, extract, firewater, fluid, hard stuff, inebriant, infusion, intoxicant, liquid, moonshine, poison*, potable, sauce, solvent, spirits, stock, the bottle, whiskey |
| Notes: | liqueur is essentially the same word as liquor (from Latin), though the words have different meanings - liqueur is a strong highly flavored, often sweetened, alcoholic drink while liquor is an alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than fermentation (which would be beer, wine) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | solution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mixture of liquid and another substance |
| Synonyms: | blend, compound, dissolvent, elixir, emulsion, extract, fluid, juice, mix, sap, solvent, suspension |
| Antonyms: | chemical, element |
| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepted, established |
| Synonyms: | all there, authoritative, canonical, dependable, fair, faithful, fly*, go*, hanging together, holding together, holding up, holding up in wash, holding water, kosher*, legal, legit, loyal, orthodox, proper, proven, received, recognized, reliable, reputable, safe, sanctioned, secure, significant, solid, solvent, stable, standing up, tried-and-true, true, valid, washing |
| Antonyms: | distrusted, refused, rejected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | substantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rich |
| Synonyms: | affluent, comfortable, easy, opulent, prosperous, snug, solid, solvent, wealthy, well, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do |
| Notes: | substantial means considerable or sizeable; substantive means actual or firm |
| Antonyms: | impoverished, poor |
| Main Entry: | soluble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable of disintegration |
| Synonyms: | dispersible, dissoluble, dissolvable, dissolved, emulsifiable, resolvable, solvable, solvent |
| Main Entry: | solvable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soluble |
| Synonyms: | dissoluble, dissolvable, solvent |
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