solid
/ˈsɑ.lɪd/ nom C2En français : solide
- 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).
- A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- A favor. · Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.· I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
- An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout. · I prefer solids over paisleys.
- Food which is not liquid-based. · The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
Pluriel solids
Dans la bibliothèque
This box contained an unctuous substance partly solid, of which it was impossible to discover the color, owing to the reflection of the polished gold, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, which ornamented the box.
Danglars meditated an escape; but the walls were solid rock, a man was sitting reading at the only outlet to the cell, and behind that man shapes armed with guns continually passed.
Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman’s axe, instead of the old broken handle.
“Ten years with Sir Charles Chandos—as solid as a rock.
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