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Webster 1913 Edition
Acid
1.
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
He was stern and his face as
acid
as ever. A. Trollope.
2.
Of or pertaining to an acid;
as,
. acid
reactionAc′id
,Noun.
1.
A sour substance.
2.
(Chem.)
One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called
hydracids
in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids
or oxacids
. ☞ In certain cases, sulphur, selenium, or tellurium may take the place of oxygen, and the corresponding compounds are called respectively
sulphur acids
or sulphacids
, selenium acids
, or tellurium acids
. When the hydrogen of an acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, a salt is formed, and hence acids are sometimes named as salts of hydrogen; as hydrogen nitrate for nitric acid, hydrogen sulphate for sulphuric acid, etc. In the old chemistry the name acid
was applied to the oxides of the negative or nonmetallic elements, now sometimes called anhydrides. Webster 1828 Edition
Acid
AC'ID
,Adj.
Sour, sharp or biting to the taste, having the taste of vinegar, as acid fruits or liquors.
AC'ID
,Noun.
1.
When taken into the mouth, they occasion the taste of sourness. They are corrosive, unless diluted with water; and some of them are caustic.2.
They change certain vegetable blue colors to red, and restore blue colors which have been turned green, or red colors which have been turned blue by an alkali.3.
Most of them unite with water in all proportions, with a condensation of volume and evolution of heat; and many of them have so strong an attraction for water, as not to appear in the solid state.4.
They have a stronger affinity for alkalies, than these have for any other substance; and in combining them, most of them produce effervescence.5.
They unite with earths, alkalies and metallic oxyds, forming interesting compounds, usually called salts.6.
With few exceptions, they are volatilized or decomposed by a moderate heat.The old chimists divided acids into animal, vegetable, and mineral - a division now deemed inaccurate. They are also divided into oxygen acids, hydrogen acids, and acids destitute of these acidifiers. Another division is into acids with simple radicals, acids with double radicals, acids with triple radicals, acids with unknown radicals, compound acids, dubious acids, and acids destitute of oxygen.
Definition 2024
Acid
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English
Adjective
acid (comparative more acid, superlative most acid)
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- acid fruits or liquors
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- (Can we date this quote?), Anthony Trollope, (Please provide the title of the work):
- He was stern and his face as acid as ever.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:
- 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.
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- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (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
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Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
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 of several classes of compound having the following properties:-
- Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
- Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
- (slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- See also Wikisaurus:acid
Translations
a sour substance
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in chemistry
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LSD
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Derived terms
terms derived from “acid”
types of acid
See also
References
- acid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowing from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈtʃid]
Adjective
acid m, n (feminine singular acidă, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)
Declension
declension of acid
Noun
acid m (plural acizi)
Declension
declension of acid