solid
adjective
having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
half-solid
-
a word derived from
solid.
Example Sentences
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Nicknames for aerogel include "frozen smoke" and in pictures it can look like an ethereal half-gas, half-solid slice of matter.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023
On this half-solid, half-liquid substrate, staking the tents had proved impossible.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
The very sand, for roods around, had a brown iron-like tinge, and seemed baked into a half-solid mass, resembling clay.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
It seemed as if it would be scarcely safe for a single traveller to venture across the half-liquid, half-solid masses.
From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by N. D'Anvers
According to Eustathius, the compound was a kind of thick gruel, half-solid, half-liquid.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright
