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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
6. Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as
opposed to {frivolous} or {fallacious}; weighty; firm;
strong; valid; just; genuine.
The solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer.
--Milton.
These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the
name of solid men. --Dryden.
The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil
what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had
projected in a poem. --J. A.
Symonds.
7. Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. --I.
Watts.
8. (Bot.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a
bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
9. (Metaph.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other
material particle or atom from any given portion of space;
-- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
10. (Print.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not
open.
11. United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation
is solid for a candidate. [Polit. Cant. U.S.]
{Solid angle}. (Geom.) See under {Angle}.
{Solid color}, an even color; one not shaded or variegated.
{Solid green}. See {Emerald green}
(a), under {Green}.
{Solid measure} (Arith.), a measure for volumes, in which the
units are each a cube of fixed linear magnitude, as a
cubic foot, yard, or the like; thus, a foot, in solid
measure, or a solid foot, contains 1,728 solid inches.
{Solid newel} (Arch.), a newel into which the ends of winding
stairs are built, in distinction from a hollow newel. See
under {Hollow}, a.
{Solid problem} (Geom.), a problem which can be construed
geometrically, only by the intersection of a circle and a
conic section or of two conic sections. --Hutton.
{Solid square} (Mil.), a square body or troops in which the
ranks and files are equal.
Syn: Hard; firm; compact; strong; substantial; stable; sound;
real; valid; true; just; weighty; profound; grave;
important.
Usage: {Solid}, {Hard}. These words both relate to the
internal constitution of bodies; but hardnotes a more
impenetrable nature or a firmer adherence of the
component parts than solid. Hard is opposed to soft,
and solid to fluid, liquid, open, or hollow. Wood is
usually solid; but some kinds of wood are hard, and
others are soft.
Repose you there; while I [return] to this hard
house, More harder than the stones whereof 't is
raised. --Shak.
I hear his thundering voice resound, And
trampling feet than shake the solid ground.
--Dryden.