SOLIDER
Etymology 1
Adjective
solider
comparative form of solid
Etymology 2
Noun
solider
Misspelling of soldier.
Anagrams
• Delrios, Soldier, serolid, soldier
Source: Wiktionary
SOLID
Sol"id, a. Etym: [L. solidus, probably akin to sollus whole, entire,
Gr. solide. Cf. Consolidate,Soda, Solder, Soldier, Solemn.]
1. 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.
2. Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as
distinguished from a Ant: hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence,
sometimes, heavy.
3. (Arith.)
Definition: Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot
contains 1,728 solid inches.
Note: In this sense, cubics now generally used.
4. Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a
solid pile; a solid wall.
5. Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form
an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
6. 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.
7. Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. I. Watts.
8. (Bot.)
Definition: Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root;
not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
9. (Metaph.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
11. United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid
for a candidate. [Polit. Cant. U.S.] Solid angle. (Geom.) See under
Angle.
– Solid color, an even color; one not shaded or variegated.
– Solid green. 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. Hutton.
– Solid square (Mil.), a square body or troops in which the ranks
and files are equal.
Syn.
– Hard; firm; compact; strong; substantial; stable; sound; real;
valid; true; just; weighty; profound; grave; important.
– Solid, Hard. These words both relate to the internal constitution
of bodies; but hardnotes a more impenetrable nature or a firmer
adherence of the component parts than solid. Hard is opposed to soft,
and solid to fluid, liquid, open, or hollow. Wood is usually solid;
but some kinds of wood are hard, and others are soft.
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.
Sol"id, n.
1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its
particles; a substance not fluid.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of
space bounded on all sides. Solid of revolution. (Geom.) See
Revolution, n., 5.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition