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# liquid

«liquid» in Mova's school dictionary: **something that flows and can be poured, like water, milk…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (liquid, liquids); adjective (liquid)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A liquid is something that flows and can be poured, like water, milk or juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#m1)

2) Liquid is one of the three main states of matter, with solid and gas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#m2)

3) As an adjective, liquid means in the form of a liquid: liquid soap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths it is an amount measured in litres or millilitres, poured, filled or shared. In science a liquid takes the shape of its container but keeps its volume; ice melts into liquid water, and liquid water boils into steam (a gas). In safety: some liquids are poisons, so never drink from an unmarked bottle; airports limit liquids in hand luggage.

### examples

- The bottle has 2 litres of liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x1)
- Pour the liquid into 4 equal cups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x2)
- How much liquid is left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x3)
- A tank holds 50 litres of liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x4)
- Water is a liquid at room temperature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x5)
- When ice melts, it turns into a liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x6)
- A liquid takes the shape of its container. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x7)
- Never drink a liquid from a bottle with no label. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x8)
- She washed her hands with liquid soap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x9)
- You will find beneath it a crystal vase filled with a bright green liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/#x10)

### note

Countable for kinds (different liquids), uncountable for an amount (some liquid). States of matter: solid, liquid, gas. Myth: glass is not a slow liquid; it is a solid. Maths: measured, not counted: litres and millilitres. Trap: change units before adding (1 L = 1000 ml).

### In the corpora

- [Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/16/)
- [Honeypot ants turn some workers into living jars of sweet liquid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/3/)
- [A ladybird's red and black are a warning: it tastes bitter and oozes yellow liquid from its knees when grabbed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/18/)
- [Most things around us are solids, liquids or gases, and the difference is how their particles behave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/0/)
- [Some things are tricky: toothpaste, ketchup and cornflour slime behave like a solid one moment and a liquid the next.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «liquid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liquid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.