acid
See also: ACID, Acid, and àcid
English
Etymology
From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ăs'ĭd, IPA(key): /ˈæs.ɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: a‧cid
- Rhymes: -æsɪd
Adjective
acid (comparative acider, superlative acidest)
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- acid fruits or liquors
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,
- His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:
- It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- 1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us (page 101)
- Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
- 1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us (page 101)
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:acid.
Synonyms
- acidic
Antonyms
- alkaline
- base
Derived terms
- acid amide
- acid anhydride
- acid bomb
- acid dissociation constant
- acid drop
- acid-free
- acid house
- acid jazz
- acid reflux
- acid rock
- acid-tongued
Translations
sour, sharp, or biting to the taste
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sour-tempered
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of or pertaining to an acid
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Noun
acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)
- A sour substance.
- (chemistry)
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- Any corrosive substance.
- 2006, James Fenton, "Jerusalem".
- You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
- 2006, James Fenton, "Jerusalem".
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 171:
- In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.
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Antonyms
- alkali
- base
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:acid
Derived terms
terms derived from “acid”
- acid-base equilibrium
- acid-base indicator
- acid-fast
- acidhead
- acid house
- acidic
- acidify
- acidimeter
- acidity
- acid jazz
- acidly
- acidophile
- acidophilic
- acidosis
- acid-proof, acidproof
- acid rain
- acid-resistant
- acid test
- acidulate
- acidulous
types of acid
- acetic acid
- acetylsalicylic acid
- acid of air
- acid of amber
- acid of ants
- acid of apples
- acid of lemon
- acid of milk
- acid of salt
- acid of sugar
- acrylic acid
- adipic acid
- alginic acid
- alpha-hydroxy acid
- amino acid
- arachidic acid
- arachidonic acid
- arsenic acid
- ascorbic acid
- aspartic acid
- benzoic acid
- bile acid
- boric acid
- bromic acid
- butyric acid
- capric acid
- caproic acid
- caprylic acid
- carbamic acid
- carbolic acid, phenol
- carbonic acid
- carboxylic acid
- cerotic acid
- chloric acid
- cholic acid
- chromic acid
- citric acid
- conjugate acid
- connorstictic acid
- consalazinic acid
- constictic acid
- convirensic acid
- crotonic acid
- cryptostictic acid
- cyanic acid
- cyanuric acid
- cyclamic acid
- deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA
- erucic acid
- ethanoic acid
- fatty acid
- folic acid
- formic acid
- fulminic acid
- fumaric acid
- fumarprotocetraric acid
- fusidic acid
- galbinic acid
- gibberellic acid
- gluconic acid
- glutamic acid
- glyceric acid
- glycolic acid
- humic acid
- hydriodic acid
- hydrobromic acid
- hydrochloric acid
- hydrocyanic acid
- hydrofluoric acid
- hydrosulphurous acid
- hydroxy acid
- hypobromous acid
- hypochlorous acid
- hypofluorous acid
- hypohalous acid
- hypoiodous acid
- hypophosphorous acid
- hyposalazinic acid
- hypostietic acid
- hyposulphurous acid
- indoleacetic acid
- isobutyric acid
- ketipic acid
- lactic acid
- lauric acid
- Lewis acid
- linoleic acid
- linolenic acid
- lysergic acid
- maleic acid
- malic acid
- malonic acid
- margaric acid
- metaphosphoric acid
- methacrylic acid
- mucic acid
- muriatic acid
- myristic acid
- nicotinic acid
- nitric acid
- nitrous acid
- norisonotatic acid
- norstictic acid
- nucleic acid
- oleic acid
- omega-3 fatty acid
- omega-6 fatty acid
- osmic acid
- oxaloacetic acid
- oxalic acid
- palmitic acid
- pantothenic acid
- pectic acid
- pelargonic acid
- perchloric acid
- periodic acid
- permanganic acid
- petroselinic acid
- phosphoric acid
- phosphorous acid
- phthalic acid
- picric acid
- propanoic acid
- propionic acid
- protocetraric acid
- prussic acid
- pyrogallic acid
- pyrophosphoric acid
- pyruvic acid
- racemic acid
- retinoic acid
- ribonucleic acid, RNA
- ricinoleic acid
- salazinic acid
- salicylic acid
- sebacic acid
- selenic acid
- silicic acid
- stearic acid
- stictic acid
- suberic acid
- succinic acid
- sulphonic acid, sulfonic acid
- sulphuric acid, sulfuric acid
- sulphurous acid, sulfurous acid
- tannic acid
- tantalic acid
- tartaric acid
- telluric acid
- thiocyanic acid
- thiosulphuric acid, thiosulfuric acid
- titanic acid
- toluic acid
- trans fatty acid
- tungstic acid
- undecilenic acid
- uric acid
- usnic acid
- valeric acid
- vanadic acid
- virensic acid
Translations
a sour substance
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in chemistry
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LSD
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See also
- acerbic
- acro-
- pH
- Category:en:Acids
References
- acid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- -adic, Daic, adic, cadi, caid
Albanian
Noun
acid m (indefinite plural acide, definite singular acidi, definite plural acidet)
- (chemistry) acid
- Synonym: thartor
Declension
Declension of acid
| indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara) | definite forms (trajta të shquara) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | ||
| nominative (emërore) | (një) acid | (disa) acide | acidi | acidet | |
| accusative (kallëzore) | (një) acid | (disa) acide | acidin | acidet | |
| genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së) | (një) acidi | (disa) acideve | acidit | acidevet | |
| dative (dhanore) | (një) acidi | (disa) acideve | acidit | acidevet | |
| ablative (rrjedhore) (prej) | (një) acidi | (disa) acidesh | acidit | acidevet | |
Further reading
- acid in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈt͡ʃid]
Adjective
acid m or n (feminine singular acidă, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)
- acid, acidic
Declension
Declension of acid
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | acid | acidă | acizi | acide | ||
| definite | acidul | acida | acizii | acidele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | acid | acide | acizi | acide | ||
| definite | acidului | acidei | acizilor | acidelor | |||
Related terms
- aciditate
Noun
acid m (plural acizi)
- acid
Declension
Declension of acid
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) acid | acidul | (niște) acizi | acizii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) acid | acidului | (unor) acizi | acizilor |
| vocative | acidule | acizilor | ||
Derived terms
- acid dezoxiribonucleic
Further reading
- acid in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Adjective
acid (invariable)
- (music) acid
Noun
acid m (uncountable)
- (music) acid
Further reading
- “acid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014