Noun: solid
| Singular | solid |
| Plural | solids |
Sample Sentences
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Please do me a solid: lend me your car for one week.
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I owe him; he did me a solid last year.
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Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me a solid. [2010, Loren D. Estleman, Frames, page 54:]
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You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me a solid or two on the Job. [2012, Robert Cea, No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop, page 61:]
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Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. "Thanks again, Thomas," I said, opening the door for him. "I owe you a solid." [2013, Nicole Williams, Crush:]
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I prefer solids over paisleys.
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The doctor said I can't eat any solids four hours before the operation.
Nouns inflected like solid
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English solid, from the adjective, Middle French solide, or Latin solidum. Doublet of solidum. See: Latin Nouns '
solidum'.
Verbs referencing "solid"
Finnish Nouns
solidi.