liquid meaning
EN
[ˈlɪkwɪd] [-ɪkwɪd] 
US WLiquid
- A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure.
- The density of a liquid is usually close to that of a solid, and much higher than in a gas. Therefore, liquid and solid are both termed condensed matter. On the other hand, as liquids and gases share the ability to flow, they are both called fluids.
- NounPLliquids
- 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.
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. [ …] It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
- (phonetics) An l or r sound.
- 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.
- AdjectiveCOMmore liquidSUPmost liquid
- Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- liquid nitrogen
- (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
- a liquid melody
- Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
- L and R are liquid letters.
- Fluid and transparent.
- the liquid air
- Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Ethyl tetrazone is a colourless liquid with an odour of leeks.
- Resin heat- product of a mixture of modified liquid anacardic and modified pine wood resin.
- "He has found that the rays do not penetrate fluorescent fluids, or liquid sunshine as they are sometimes called.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- But then it became famous – really, really famous – as smoothified liquid.
- When something melts it loses its solidness and becomes a liquid.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of liquid in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "liquid" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.