soln.1
/sɒl/, U.S. /sɔl/, /sɑl/ 1. The sun (personified).Used without article and written with capital S.
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the world > the universe > sun > [noun]
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c1450 Treat. Astrol. (Ashm. 337) 2 Sol is hote & dry but not as mars is.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. A2 Ere Sol had slept three nights in Thetis lap.
1593 G. Peele Praise of Chastitie in R. S. Phœnix Nest 12 More beautifull..Than Sol himselfe, amid the Planets seauen.
1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. C3v His smile is like the Meridian Sol, Discern'd a dauncing in the burbling brook.
1670 D. Denton Brief Descr. N.-Y. 18 The Vines..does..shelter them from the scorching beams of Sols fiery influence.
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 356 Sol thro' white Curtains did his Beams display.
1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 62 Till Sol, declining in the west, Shall call to supper.
1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxxi. 175 In bright Sol's diurnal round, No such delightful place was found.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 277 Clytie, inconsolable for the loss of the affections of Sol,..is represented as brooding over her griefs in silence and in solitude.
a. Alchemy. Gold. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > gold
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a1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 273 Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe.
a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 3 Good gold naturel..is clepid of philosophoris ‘sol’ in latyn.]
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy iii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 41 Sol by it selfe, or Mercury alone, Or Sulphur with them.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 45 Zeuxis his painted dogge shal barke and whine When Ioue they turne to Sol or Luna fine.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 128 Pure goldie-lockes Sol, States-friend, Honour-giuer.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. D3v Bright Sol is in his robe. View more context for this quotation
1616 J. Davies Select Second Husband sig. B6v Though Beauty then seeme Sol, at least as rich, It wil be found but Lune, on Tryalls touch.
1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 189 Crude gold..is by them not only called Solary but Sol..it selfe.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 49 The Alchymists..bestowed on the seven Metals..the names of the seven Planets of the Ancients... Thus Gold was called Sol, Silver Luna, Copper Venus, Tin Jupiter, Lead Saturn, Iron Mars, and Quick-silver Mercury.
b. Heraldry. (In blazoning by planets instead of metals) = or n.1 Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > metal > gold or yellow
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1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. i. 83 Hee beareth Luna, on a Chiefe Iupiter, a Cherub displaied, Sol.
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 235 Emperors and Kings ought to bear Gold in their Arms, and then it might bee thus; The Field is Sol a Dove volant proper.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sol..is taken..in Heraldry for the Gold Colour, in the Coats of Soveraign Princes.
1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 6 Nov. Canterbury bears a Staff in Pale Sol.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 691/2 Or, Yellow, Topaz, Sol.]
c. ? The topaz. Obsolete.
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 21 Sol the Precious stone, is in colour like to the Sunne, and is called Sol, for that it giueth reflexions of Sunne beames.
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soln.2
/sɒl/, /səʊl/, U.S. /sɔl/, /sɑl/ Music.
The fifth note of Guido d'Arezzo's hexachords, and of the octave in modern solmization; the note G in the natural scale of C major.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > diatonic scale series > sol-fa system > sol-fa notes
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c1325 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 292 Sol and ut and la, And that froward file that men clepis fa.
?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bi Wolde to god it wolde please you some daye..to..lerne me to synge (Re my fa sol).
1565 Kyng Daryus (Brandl) 739 La, soule, soule, fa, my.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 75 D sol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I. View more context for this quotation
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) v. sig. Hv You shall never talk your voice above the key, sol, sol, sol.
1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick i. 1 Ut and Re are changed into Sol La.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sol-fa-ing From fa to sol is a Tone; also from sol to la.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 547/2 From the adjuncts of the mode, that is to say, the modes of its two fifths, which for ut are fa and sol, and re and mi for la.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 194/1.
1873 H. C. Banister Music 32 The lowest note, Sol, or G.
Derivatives
sol v. in Apparently an isolated use.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 145 Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile sol you. View more context for this quotation
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soln.3
/sɒl/, U.S. /sɔl/, /sɑl/ Now Historical.
A former coin and money of account in France and some other countries, equal to the twentieth part of a livre, but varying in actual value at different times and places.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > other European
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1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iii. 87 A pot of sweete mylke, a groat and an halfe, and a pounde of butter two souls.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. v. sig. K3 This fellow, For six sols more, would pleade against his Maker. View more context for this quotation
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. T6v Euery Chiquinie containing eleuen Liuers, and twelue sols; the Liuer is nine pence, the sol an halfe penny.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 352 He put his hand into his pocket, and thinking to draw out a Sol, which is little more than an English penny,..gave it him.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xliv. 69 My pay..amounted to five sols a day.
1789 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 122 A new paper-currency..which is to bear an interest of one sol in the livre.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 54 In this exchange, a pound of beaver-skin is reckoned at sixty sols.
1873 E. E. Hale In his Name i. 2 He would relax his hold on the odd sols and deniers as if he had never clung to them.]
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† soln.4
Obsolete.
The solution of a scholastic problem.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > solution, explanation > instance of
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1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 11 Very skilfull in the learning of ob and Sol.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. iii. 754 A thousand idle questions, nice distinctions, Obs and Sols.
c1660 Loyal Songs (1731) II. 217 Whilst he should give us Sol's and Ob's, He brings us in some simple bobs.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 165 To pass for deep, and Learned Scholars, Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers.
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soln.5
/sɒl/, U.S. /sɔl/, /sɑl/ A Spanish-American (now Peruvian) silver coin; the Peruvian unit of currency.
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1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. i. 126 Peruvian Gold: 20 Sol Piece, £3 18 6.
1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. i. 126 Peruvian: Soles, £0 3 6.
1894 Daily News 20 Dec. 5/2 The United States dollar being substituted for the Central American silver dollar or sol as the standard of value. The value of the sol is about 50 cents. (U.S. currency).
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2. In full new sol or nuevo sol. The principal monetary unit of Peru, introduced in 1991 to replace the inti, and consisting of 100 centimos.1 new sol was equivalent to 1 million intis (see inti n.).
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1990 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East, Afr. & Latin Amer. Weekly Econ. Rep. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. ME/W0160/A3/1 The National Congress has approved a currency change from the into to the new sol and the 1991 annual budget.
1991 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 July a8/1 Peru introduced a new currency, the second in six years, though it said the nuevo sol, which replaces inflation-ridden inti, won't start circulating until at least October.
1997 Filipino Reporter (Electronic ed.) 20 Mar. (Life/Style section) The streets of the old center of Lima still teem with sidewalk vendors on both sides... I bought it [sc. a book] for 6 Soles (current exchange 2.15 nuevo sol for U.S. dollar).
2006 B. A. Pérez & R. Lenz in D. Cotlear New Social Contract for Peru iv. 134 The beneficiaries must register for affiliation at the primary care facility of their preference and pay 1 sol.
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soln.6
/sɒl/, U.S. /sɔl/, /sɑl/ Physical Chemistry.
A liquid solution or suspension of a colloid. Cf. gel n.2
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1899 W. B. Hardy in Jrnl. Physiol. 24 164 Graham's nomenclature is as follows: The fluid state, colloidal solution, is the ‘sol’, the solid state the ‘gel’. The fluid constituent is indicated by a prefix. Thus an aqueous solution of gelatine is a ‘hydrosol’, and on setting it becomes a ‘hydrogel’.
1918 Nature 28 Mar. 66/1 Colloidal solutions are systems in which the solute individuals or sols, though apparently soluble, have not broken down to the molecular limit.
1922 A. W. Stewart Physico-chem. Themes 175 When a gel is produced from a sol, the process is termed coagulation.
1936 W. Stiles Introd. Princ. Plant Physiol. ii. 16 If the ability to flow is our criterion of the sol state, then protoplasm is usually, but by no means always, a sol; but there are other indicators of the colloidal state such as elasticity, rigidity, and inhibition, and these are gel characteristics.
1940 S. Glasstone Text-bk. Physical Chem. xiv. 1213 The characteristic colors shown by many sols are related in some degree to the particle size; in the course of coagulation, for example, the color of a gold sol changes from red to violet and then to blue.
1970 E. J. Ambrose & D. M. Easty Cell Biol. xv. 479 When two hydrophilic sols carrying opposite charges are mixed, viscous drops known as coacervates often form instead of a continuous liquid phase.
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sol-gel n. used attributively with reference to the interconversion of sol and gel.
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > colloid > [noun] > sol > sol-gel
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1915 W. W. Taylor Chem. Colloids i. 10 (heading) Sol-gel transformation.
1922 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 44 1313 (heading) The sol-gel equilibrium in protein systems.
1951 New. Biol. X. 14 These interchanges, the so-called sol-gel transformations, are constantly going on in the amoeba.
1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 191 Cytoplasmic movement results from sol-gel reactions within cells.
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soln.7
/sɒl/, U.S. /sɔl/, /sɑl/ A solar day on the planet Mars (24 hours 39 minutes).
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > reckoned in different ways
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [noun] > Mars > solar day
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1976 Times 22 July 1/8 The squat little lander seemed to get through its first sol (as the Martian day..is called) without any problems.
1977 Sci. Amer. Nov. 58/3 The release of gas tapered off soon after the first sol.
1979 New Yorker 5 Feb. 41 On sol 8..the craft's sampler arm extended straight out and then dropped to the ground.
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† soladj.
Obsolete.
Soiled, dirty.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective]
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c1200 Trin. Hom. 57 Sume bereð sole cloð to þe watere forto wasshen it clene.
c1200 Trin. Hom. 163 His alter cloð [is] great and sole, and hire chemise smal & hwit, & te albe sol, & hire smoc hwit.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 240 Wule anweb beon..wel ibleached wið an water an sol clað wel iweschen.
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S.O.L.
S.O.L. n. (also s.o.l.) soldier (also strictly, shit, surely: see quot. 1917) out of luck (U.S.).
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1917 R. Lord Captain Boyd's Battery, A.E.F. (1920) ii. 24 S.O.L.—Payroll abbreviation for Soldier, adapted to mean Soldier Out 'a Luck or Certainly Out 'a Luck, according to the way you spell it. Applicable to everything from death to being late for mess.
1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers ii. iii. 99 ‘We shall have to put him down A.W.O.L. You know what that means?’..‘I guess he's S.O.L.’; this from someone behind Fuselli.
1946 B. C. Bowker Out of Uniform iii. 48 As the phrase went, they were ‘SOL’ (‘surely’ out of luck).
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