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
When the earth is finer and of a briny nature then two half-solid bodies are formed by separating the water,—soda and salt.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
One who is properly dressed, finds the climate much more agreeable than the amphibious, half-fluid, half-solid, sloppy, gravelike chill of the East.
From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill
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
