Synonym: flowing, liquid, watery. Antonym: solidity. Similar words: influential, liquid, guidance, guideline. Meaning: ['fluːɪd] n. 1. a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure 2. a continuous amorphous substance that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas. adj. 1. subject to change; variable 2. characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape 3. smooth and unconstrained in movement 4. in cash or easily convertible to cash 5. affording change (especially in social status).
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(61) In fluid magmas, such as those of basaltic composition, these gas bubbles can expand freely.
(62) Reconstituted evaporated milk costs less than fresh, fluid whole milk.
(63) Mean hearing thresholds are related mainly to the presence or absence of fluid in the middle ear.
(64) This beetle discharges a very hot fluid from a special gland at potential predators.
(65) When they unplugged his dressings, fluid leapt from his flesh like some victorious spirit that had possessed him.
(66) Allow the fluid to dry before laying the loft insulation.
(67) Perinatal islet function in gestational diabetes: Assessment by cord plasma C-peptide and amniotic fluid insulin.
(68) Also, the menstrual cycle of women can seriously disrupt fluid levels, causing in some cases increases of several pounds.
(69) Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis.
(70) Both drugs significantly reduced fluid secretion or increased fluid absorption.
(71) Changes in glomerular filtration rate and filtered load of sodium are regularly and continuously paralleled by comparable alterations in tubular fluid reabsorption.
(72) The tubules exude fluid when cut and contain living cells, as well as nerves.
(73) Almost every effect of fluid motion must at some time have been tried as a means of measuring velocities.
(74) In three other experiments fluid transport in the jejunum was nil.
(75) In the latter conditions, the cerebrospinal fluid has a cell count ranging from only a few to hundreds.
(76) In contrast, a pronounced net fluid absorption was recorded on days 11-14.
(77) Chapter 3 came across as a sales brochure for one of the companies selling packed column supercritical fluid chromatographs.
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(78) You should also establish the patient's usual pattern of fluid intake and output by tactful questioning.
(79) Man beats back the jungle, the vines and fluid spong trees inexorably overwhelm the masonry.
(80) In experimental animals cholera toxin induces marked secretion of fluid and electrolytes.
(81) Evidence is also presented which suggests that amylase determination in oesophageal fluid is an accurate reflection of salivary contamination.
(82) It is usual to record the fluid balance so that intake and output and their relationship may be assessed.
(83) As it travels outwards, the fluid tends to curve round in the flow direction.
(84) One-quarter of this extracellular fluid is contained within blood vessels as the plasma space.
(85) Claims that they can break down fat and disperse excess fluid are controversial.
(86) He went to the head in the middle of the night to study the fluid, a dreadful yellowish drip.
(87) The cleansing fluid was equated with plans of integration: the stain with the Negro.
(88) It helps to get the lymph fluid - a vital part of the body's waste disposal system - flowing.
(89) The total recovery of perfusion fluid was almost equal to that infused.
(90) Acute hydrocephalus due to sudden obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid pathways by an intracranial mass also causes sudden headache.