Solid

Definition

solid /'sɒlÇd / adj ၁။ အစိုင္။ အခဲ။ solid fuels (eg coal or wood) ❍ solid food (ie not liquid or slightly liquid) ❍ solid objects ❍ It was so cold that the village pond had frozen solid. ၂။ ပကတိ။ အတိၿပီးေသာ။ a solid wall of rock. ေက်ာက္သားပကတိ ေက်ာက္နံရံ။ ❍ The club was packed solid (ie very full or crowded). ကလပ္ထဲမွာ ပရိသတ္က ငါးပိသိပ္ငါးခ်ဥ္သိပ္ ျပည့္က်ပ္ေနတာပဲ။ ၃။ (က) အတိ။ စတိ။ ေခါင္းပိတ္ (သို႔) စစ္စစ္။ (ေရွး) စေတ။ a solid gold bracelet ❍ solid silver cutlery. (ခ) အတံုးလိုက္အတစ္ လိုက္။ ပိတ္ပိတ္ပိန္း။ အပိန္းလိုက္။ apply strokes of solid blue to the painting. (၄) ခိုင္မာေတာင့္တင္းေသာ။ အမာ။ solid buildings/furniture ❍ built on solid foundations ❍ on solid ground. ၅။ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ။ အားထားရ ေသာ။ solid evidence/statistics ❍ solid achievements ❍ a good solid worker. ၆။ တညီတၫြတ္တည္း။ ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ။ The government's policy has solid support from party members. ၇။ … လံုးလံုး။ The essay represents a solid week's work ❍ The phone never stopped ringing for two hours solid. ၈။ ( geometry ) အလ်ား၊ အနံ၊ အျမင့္ (သို႔) ဒု ျဗက္ ေဇာက္ရိွေသာ ထုထည္။ ဒုပံု။ a solid figure (eg a CUBE (1)) ❍ solid geometry (ie the study of solid, not flat, figures). n ၁။ အစိုင္။ အခဲ။ အဖတ္။ Milk is a liquid; cheese is a solid. ❍ The baby is not yet on solids (ie eating solid foods). ၂။ ( geometry ) ဒုပံု။ A cube is a solid. ❏ solidity /sǝ'lÇdǝti / ( also solidness) n [U] ခိုင္မာ ေတာင့္တင္းမႈ။ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္မႈ။ အစိုင္အခဲျဖစ္ျခင္း။ the solidity of a building ❍ lines and shadows which gave the picture a feeling of solidity ❍ I was impressed by the solidity of the team's defence. ❏ solidly adv ၁။ ခိုင္ခိုင္ခံ့ခံ့။ ေတာင့္ေတာင့္တင္းတင္း။ a solidly-built house. ၂။ အဆက္မျပတ္။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ It rained solidly for three hours. ၃။ တညီတၫြတ္တည္း။ We're all solidly behind you on this issue.

Examples

1. It remains solid at room temperature.
2. [frozen solid] : The lake was frozen solid.
3. A solid block of ice
4. A solid line of traffic
5. The solid stone walls of the church
6. The containers have to be solid enough to withstand the pressure.
7. The team was fairly solid on defence.
8. [solid evidence/proof] : Would the evidence be solid enough to convince a jury?
9. [a solid performance] : She gives another solid performance as an unemployed single mother.
10. I can’t believe I slept for twelve hours solid.
11. It rained for a solid week.
12. A solid oak bookcase
13. Solid silver cutlery
14. He has a solid family background.
15. A solid reliable worker
16. A solid supporter of the Republican party