acid

Definition

  • noun: a chemical with a sour taste that forms a salt when mixed with a base
  • noun: a sour substance
  • adjective: sour, sharp, or biting to the taste
  • adjective: of, relating to, or having the qualities of an acid

Examples

  • The new team faced its first 'acid test' when it played the national champions.

  • Their pizza gives me 'acid indigestion'. [=a burning feeling in the stomach]

  • He washes his windows with an 'acid' solution of vinegar and water.

Movie quotes

  • (..) with blood of man that, swift as quicksilver... ...it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body, and with a sudden vigour... ...it doth posset and curd, like acid dropping into milk, the thin and wholesome blood So did it mine. And soon a foul eruption all my smooth body (..)
    2015 Hamlet