solid

Forms

1.That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
- Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
2.Large in size, quantity, or value.
- On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it.
3.Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
- The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
4.Strong or unyielding.
- As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.

1.Solidly.
- Suppose, then, a whole family got sick with this flu, and no help around, and winter setting in solid and cold three weeks early?
- If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.
- Hm-m-, These papers are complete. They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs, ought to put me in more solid than ever with Miss Effie, and that home is good graft.
2.Without spaces or hyphens.
- Many long-established compounds are set solid.

1.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).
2.A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-der.

Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s

Proto-Italic *soliðos

Latin solidusder.

Old French solidebor.

Middle English solide

English solid