Solid

Sol´id Pronunciation: sǒl´ĭd

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.

(Arith.) 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.

The solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer.

- Milton.

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

- Dryden.

The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.

- J. A. Symonds.

Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.

(Bot.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.

(Metaph.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; - applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.

10.

(Print.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.

11.

United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.

Solid angle
(Geom.) See under Angle.

Solid color
an even color; one not shaded or variegated.

Solid green
a -	See Emerald green (a), under Green.

Solid measure
(Arith.) a measure for volumes, in which the units are each a cube of fixed linear magnitude, as a cubic foot, yard, or the like; thus, a foot, in solid measure, or a solid foot, contains 1,728 solid inches.

Solid newel
(Arch.) a newel into which the ends of winding stairs are built, in distinction from a hollow newel. See under Hollow, a.

Solid problem
(Geom.) a problem which can be construed geometrically, only by the intersection of a circle and a conic section or of two conic sections.

Solid square
(Mil.) a square body or troops in which the ranks and files are equal. - Hutton.

Repose you there; while I [return] to this hard house,
More harder than the stones whereof 't is raised.

- Shak.

I hear his thundering voice resound,
And trampling feet than shake the solid ground.

- Dryden.

A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.

(Geom.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.

Solid of revolution
(Geom.) See Revolution, n., 5.

Noun	1.	solid - a substance that is solid at room temperature and pressure
	2.	solid - the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape Synonyms: solidness
	3.	solid - a three-dimensional shape
Adj.	1.	solid - of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state" Antonyms: gaseous - existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state" liquid - existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"
	2.	solid - of good substantial quality; "solid comfort"; "a solid base hit"
	3.	solid - entirely of one substance with no holes inside; "solid silver"; "a solid block of wood" Antonyms: hollow - not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"
	4.	solid - of one substance or character throughout; "solid gold"; "a solid color"; "carved out of solid rock"
	5.	solid - uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks; "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of water"
	6.	solid - providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast" Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, substantial
	7.	solid - of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" Synonyms: substantial, strong
	8.	solid - having high moral qualities; "a noble spirit"; "a solid citizen"; "an upstanding man"; "a worthy successor" Synonyms: noble, upstanding, worthy
	9.	solid - not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground" Synonyms: firm
	10.	solid - having three dimensions; "a solid object"
	11.	solid - incapable of being seen through; "solid blackness"
	12.	solid - entirely of a single color throughout; "a solid fabric" Synonyms: self-colored, self-coloured
	13.	solid - acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid voting bloc" Synonyms: unanimous

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