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Definition of fluid in English: fluidnoun ˈfluːɪdˈfluɪd A substance that has no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure; a gas or (especially) a liquid. mass noun a bottle of cleaning fluid Example sentencesExamples - Detectives later confirmed that the stains had been caused by body fluids.
- The main benefit from drinking toast water would, however, be the replacement of body fluids.
- Intravenous fluids dramatically improved his condition and restored his body weight.
- It can be used for febrile diseases where the heat is burning up the fluids of the body.
- However, Hepatitis B is easily transmitted by contact with blood and other body fluids.
- The fluids that precipitated the veins were a likely source for some of the iron that formed the hematite.
- Replacing these lost fluids is essential if the body is to be kept in balance and dehydration avoided.
- Deep down within fluids or aquifers volatilization is not an important transport process.
- Gold can form soluble compounds with these substances and so the fluids will leach it out of rocks.
- Aim to drink at least half of your daily fluids as water and other hydrating fluids.
- I was on a drip because obviously I had no fluids in my body, the only liquid was alcohol.
- Kochin's research was on meteorology, gas dynamics and shock waves in compressible fluids.
- What is known is that it secretes prostatic fluid, one of the five main fluids that make up semen.
- He found that more ion-rich pore fluids caused an increase in angle of friction.
- The main aim of the treatment is to replace the lost fluids and electrolytes in the body.
- I believe that by doing this it helps to drive all the vital fluids around the body.
- The bakery owners later gave up their lease after it emerged that the liquid had in fact been body fluids from the two men.
- After condensation, the fluids are drawn back to the areas that are in need of cooling.
- These faults are presumably acting as pathways for the fluids involved in the formation of gas hydrates.
- Large volumes of fluids may be infused, and these intravenous fluids should be warmed.
Synonyms flowing substance liquid, watery substance, moisture, solution, juice, sap gas, gaseous substance, vapour
adjective ˈfluːɪdˈfluɪd 1(of a substance) able to flow easily. the paint is more fluid than tube watercolours Example sentencesExamples - Even though they are working in a fluid substance, they have several things in their favour in comparison to swimmers.
- ‘He has achieved this by using increasingly fluid paint, which can be floated over large areas or deployed in a much more linear way,’ says Terry.
- We are also putting a lot of emphasis on our merchandising programs - both for ice creams and fluid milk.
- The late afternoon sun shimmers on the Hudson River, creating a blinding surface of fluid silver that coats the dull green.
- The addition of crop oil, surfactant, or fluid fertilizer may improve control of emerged weeds.
- In addition to fluid milk, it markets a wide range of organic dairy products including buttermilk, whipping cream and a dozen kinds of cheese.
- Material is pumped from the sea bed as a fluid mixture with water and is discharged into the dredger's hoppers where the heavy material rapidly sinks to the bottom.
- It spilled out from her fingers in the form of a fluid silver substance and flooded the man's leg down to the marrow of his bone.
- Although adults do not drink a lot of fluid milk in China, an emerging audience may lie in young consumers.
- Place bowl back over water and stir until chocolate is fluid again and thermometer reads approximately 100 degrees.
- Adding additional calcium to dairy formulations is an option and one currently adopted by processors of all sorts from cheese to ice cream to fluid milk.
- Innovations are not limited to a specific category, with subtle or bold changes evident in products from cultured products to ice cream to fluid milk.
- The company pasteurized its first gallon of fluid milk in January 1946 and began ice cream production two years later.
- Miro, Louis and Poons showed the strikingly different effects that could be obtained by pouring a fluid substance down a canvas.
- Melt real dark chocolate in a nonstick pan and beat in just enough full-fat milk for a gloopy, fluid drink.
- Consequently, there may be a layer of fluid water around the chromophore that rearranges upon excitation.
- Children who are lactose intolerant can often consume fermented milk products like cheese and yogurt as well as lactose-free fluid milk.
- Fill the space between tin can and saucepan with water and heat the whole contraption until the glue is fluid.
- As if to pour salt into the wound that is the declining sale of fluid milk, sales of soy beverages are soaring.
- Where was all this water coming from - as much ice as there was in the freezer it still couldn't have made this amount of fluid water surely.
Synonyms flowing, able to flow easily liquid, liquefied, melted, molten, uncongealed, running gaseous, gassy technical fluxional - 1.1 Smoothly elegant or graceful.
her movements were fluid and beautiful to watch Example sentencesExamples - Pausing only to throw my BBC notepad and pen to one side, I storm over the human hurdles in what I imagine to be a graceful, fluid study in perfect technique.
- He was so fluid and so graceful and I couldn't tear my eyes away from him, I just couldn't!
- With its understated elegant designs and fluid lines, the collection should appeal to both traditional and contemporary tastes.
- Every movement of the officer's hand was so fluid, so graceful.
- But ever since women became interested in breakdancing, they've brought a new way of moving to it - more angular, graceful and fluid, and more feminine.
- It still has an elegant and fluid design, understated rather than flash, but sadly it is missing the distinctive boomerang-shaped rear lights.
- With quick acceleration and a smooth, fluid stride, Holt can run by most defenders.
- Last but not the least is the ‘Bridal Wear’ collection with long, fine, fluid lines and graceful volumes in rich luxurious crepe and silks.
- There is an easy elegance here, a fluid readability, and a lucid, completely unaffected, eloquence of one who is at ease with herself.
- What was once erratic was now fluid and graceful.
- A more weighty tripod will feel more secure and give smoother, more fluid use.
- Arlan did indeed remember that dance, of how fluid and graceful she'd felt in his arms.
- The colors are rich and saturated, and the signature camera moves are fluid and elegant as usual.
- Christopher fought with a fluid elegance, every move graceful and balanced.
- The English is fairly fluid although not altogether smooth in places.
- Audrey tried her hardest to be fluid, to be graceful, but walking wasn't half so easy as dancing.
- While there are many transitions and sections in each song, this record is so fluid and slippery smooth it often recalls a state of lucid dreaming.
- The juggling and rope acts were hypnotic; the costume, staging and music are all original and often beautiful; the performances fluid and graceful.
- The cinematography was wonderful and the direction was fluid and elegant, surprisingly so considering the subject.
- With the fluid smoothness that comes only after thousands of repetitions, I mounted the gun when the flight was 40 yards out.
Synonyms free-flowing, flowing, fluent, smooth, effortless, easy, natural, unbroken, uninterrupted, continuous graceful, elegant regular, rhythmic - 1.2 Not settled or stable; likely or able to change.
our plans are still fluid the fluid political situation of the 1930s Example sentencesExamples - The situation will be fluid for six months, or at least until Parliament resumes.
- But as I noted recently, the situation is now extremely fluid.
- Of course, this is only one news report in a highly fluid situation, creating the risk that I may be forced to eat my words before Monday.
- However, what is impossible within the fixed boundaries of political organisations may be more plausible in the far more fluid world of political ideas.
- Balanced between neoclassicism and romanticism, the composition appears at once rigidly stable yet inherently fluid.
- In general one of the good effects (see, I do admit there are some) of the Euro will be to make prices in the Eurozone more fluid and hence to settle at a generally lower level in the long run.
- The result is a fluid political situation complicated by international relationships, cultural values, and divergent goals.
- I'm just reminded that political definitions are fluid, and shift with the times.
- I believe in a more fluid kind of political change: you throw an idea out there and it travels, and it changes.
- Military developments have overtaken political events, making the situation in Afghanistan dangerously fluid.
- The situation is still very fluid, and it's hard to tell whether the U.S. concept of the operation will be successful.
- Now, you can still kill the enemy, and in fluid situations where someone may or may not be a prisoner, you can still act to defend yourself.
- This is a very fluid political situation in a very unusual state.
- But I want to be careful and say that this is such a fluid situation, Larry.
- The devolution ‘settlement’ is becoming less settled and more fluid.
- Clearly the political situation is very fluid and we can expect the contest for middle NZ to get even more competitive.
- We now also have a much more fluid political situation.
- But I want everyone to understand, this is a very fluid situation.
- But the situation was fluid, and individual commanders had a lot of leeway.
- So yes, the political situation might be rather fluid, even on Olympus.
Synonyms adaptable, flexible, adjustable, open-ended, open, open to change, changeable, not fixed, not settled, variable, versatile fluctuating, changeable, subject/likely to change, unsteady, shifting, ever-shifting, mobile, inconstant unstable, unsettled, turbulent, volatile, mercurial, protean, kaleidoscopic, knife-edge, explosive
2(of a clutch or coupling) using a liquid to transmit power. Example sentencesExamples - Broadly, fluid couplings are of two types - constant and variable speed.
Derivatives adverb Keeping the beats locked tight early on, he mixed fervently and fluidly through a range of current and forthcoming UK tracks. Example sentencesExamples - But not everyone would be able to slide from bottom-space to performance mode as fluidly as Jae does.
- The song was slow and smooth and Simba danced fluidly yet unpredictably.
- When filming, you had to creep smoothly, fluidly along so that the camera detected no bobbing motion.
- The storytelling moves fluidly through past and present, but always en route to the promise of redemption in the future.
verb -ˈɪdɪfʌɪ noun
Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from French fluide or Latin fluidus, from fluere 'to flow'. Definition of fluid in US English: fluidnounˈfluɪdˈflo͞oid A substance that has no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure; a gas or (especially) a liquid. we all need several glasses of fluid a day Example sentencesExamples - I was on a drip because obviously I had no fluids in my body, the only liquid was alcohol.
- I believe that by doing this it helps to drive all the vital fluids around the body.
- He found that more ion-rich pore fluids caused an increase in angle of friction.
- Detectives later confirmed that the stains had been caused by body fluids.
- The fluids that precipitated the veins were a likely source for some of the iron that formed the hematite.
- What is known is that it secretes prostatic fluid, one of the five main fluids that make up semen.
- Kochin's research was on meteorology, gas dynamics and shock waves in compressible fluids.
- Deep down within fluids or aquifers volatilization is not an important transport process.
- After condensation, the fluids are drawn back to the areas that are in need of cooling.
- However, Hepatitis B is easily transmitted by contact with blood and other body fluids.
- The main aim of the treatment is to replace the lost fluids and electrolytes in the body.
- Gold can form soluble compounds with these substances and so the fluids will leach it out of rocks.
- The main benefit from drinking toast water would, however, be the replacement of body fluids.
- Aim to drink at least half of your daily fluids as water and other hydrating fluids.
- Large volumes of fluids may be infused, and these intravenous fluids should be warmed.
- These faults are presumably acting as pathways for the fluids involved in the formation of gas hydrates.
- Replacing these lost fluids is essential if the body is to be kept in balance and dehydration avoided.
- It can be used for febrile diseases where the heat is burning up the fluids of the body.
- The bakery owners later gave up their lease after it emerged that the liquid had in fact been body fluids from the two men.
- Intravenous fluids dramatically improved his condition and restored his body weight.
adjectiveˈfluɪdˈflo͞oid 1(of a substance) able to flow easily. the paint is more fluid than tube watercolors - 1.1 Not settled or stable; likely or able to change.
our plans are still fluid the fluid political situation of the 1930s - 1.2 Smoothly elegant or graceful.
her movements were fluid and beautiful to watch - 1.3 (of a clutch or coupling) using a liquid to transmit power.
Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from French fluide or Latin fluidus, from fluere ‘to flow’. |