liquid

Etymology
From, from , from , from , ultimately from. . As a term for a consonant, it comes from, a calque of.

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
 * 1)  Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
 * 1)  Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
 * 1)  Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
 * 1)  Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.

Usage notes
The differentiation of a liquid as an incompressible fluid is not strictly correct, experiments having shown that liquids are compressible to a very limited extent. See fluid.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سَائِل, مَائِع
 * Hijazi Arabic: سايل, مايع
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পনীয়া, জুলীয়া
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: шыйыҡса
 * Basque: likido, isurkari
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Capanahua: jene
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 液體, 液態
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: şingenlik
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: likvaĵo,
 * Estonian: vedelik
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სითხე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: nesse
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: сұйықтық
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: liquidus, latex
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: течност
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Middle English: licour
 * Mohawk: ohné:kaʼ
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: litchide
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: væske
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: wæt
 * Pashto: مايع, چیستکی
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lionn, sùgh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: те̏чно̄ст
 * Roman: tekùćina ,
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: tekutina, kvapalina
 * Slovene: tekočina
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: suwuklyk
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مائع
 * Uyghur: سۇيۇقلۇق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Dutch: vloeiklank
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: líquida
 * German: Fließlaut, ,
 * Icelandic: mjúkhljóð
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: plūdenis
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: пла́вный звук
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ликвида
 * Roman:, tèkūćnīk, ,
 * Slovene: likvida
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: พยัญชนะเหลว
 * Welsh: toddyn, cytsain dawdd


 * Afrikaans:
 * French:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: /
 * Slovak:
 * Telugu:

Adjective

 * 1) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
 * 2)  Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
 * 3)  Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
 * 4) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
 * 5)  Belonging to a class of consonants comprised of the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
 * 6) Fluid and transparent.
 * 1)  Belonging to a class of consonants comprised of the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
 * 2) Fluid and transparent.
 * 1) Fluid and transparent.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:runny

Antonyms

 * ; gaseous

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: sıyıq
 * Bashkir: шыйыҡ
 * Belarusian: ва́дкі
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: şingen
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: likva
 * Estonian: vedel
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თხევადი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥυτός
 * Haitian Creole: likid
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: fljótandi
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: liquide
 * Irish: leachtach
 * Italian:
 * Ladin: luter
 * Latgalian: škeists
 * Latvian: šķidrs
 * Lithuanian: skystas
 * Malay:
 * Manx: so-eaysley
 * Middle English: liquide
 * Mongolian:
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Norwegian: flytende
 * Occitan:
 * Plautdietsch: flissent
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਤਰਲ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тѐкӯћӣ, жидак
 * Roman: tèkūćī,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: рідки́й
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:, hylifol


 * Armenian: լիկվիդային,
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian: ликвиден
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: likvidní
 * Estonian: likviidne
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: נזיל
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: handbær
 * Latvian: likvīds
 * Lithuanian: likvidus
 * Norwegian: likvid
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ли̏квӣдан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: likvidné
 * Slovene: likviden
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Estonian: likviidne
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: greiðslufær
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: likviden


 * Lithuanian:
 * Slovak:
 * Telugu:

Etymology
From.