liquified
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Changed from a solid to a liquid state: The state of a substance that has been melted or dissolved.
- Reduced to a liquid form: Made fluid, often through the application of heat or pressure.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The liquified chocolate was poured over the strawberries. (The solid chocolate was melted into a pourable liquid.)
- Liquified natural gas is easier to transport over long distances. (The natural gas has been cooled and compressed into a liquid state.)
- The intense heat from the volcano created a stream of liquified rock. (The rock was melted into a fluid state by the heat.)
Advanced Usage
- Technical/Scientific Context: Often used in scientific, industrial, and culinary contexts to describe the process or result of making a solid substance fluid.
- The new process involves using liquified carbon dioxide as a solvent.
- As a Past Participle: Functions as an adjective derived from the verb "liquefy."
- The once-solid butter was now completely liquified in the pan.
Variants and Related Words
- Liquefy (verb): To make or become liquid.
- The pressure will liquefy the gas.
- Liquefaction (noun): The process of liquefying.
- Soil liquefaction can occur during an earthquake.
- Liquid (noun/adjective): A substance that flows freely but is of constant volume; having a consistency like that of water or oil.
- Water is a liquid at room temperature.
Synonyms
- Melted: Changed from solid to liquid by heat.
- Fluid: Having particles that easily move and change their relative position.
- Molten (specifically for materials liquefied by intense heat, like metal or rock): Made liquid by heat.
Antonyms
- Solid: Firm and stable in shape; not liquid or fluid.
- Frozen: Turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold.
- Coagulated: Changed to a solid or semi-solid state.
Related Phrases
- Liquified form: The state of being in liquid form.
- The metal must be in a liquified form before it can be cast into a mold.
- Liquified gas: A gas that has been condensed into a liquid.
- The truck carries tanks of liquified oxygen.
Adjective
- reduced to liquid form by heating
- a mass of molten rock
- reduced to a liquid state
- liquefied petroleum gas
- changed from a solid to a liquid state
- rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow