1400-1500Frenchfluide, from Latinfluidus, from fluere ‘to flow’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
a fluid guitar solo
Clark throws with a fluid motion.
Our plans for the project are still somewhat fluid.
The sculptures are admired for their round shapes and fluid lines.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Almost every effect of fluid motion must at some time have been tried as a means of measuring velocities.
As markets become more fluid and global, leaders must be more careful about alienating investors.
In three other experiments fluid transport in the jejunum was nil.
Man beats back the jungle, the vines and fluid spong trees inexorably overwhelm the masonry.
They have also been regarded as a topic distinctive to fluid dynamics.
This was not the fluid, precise canvas of the Cal victory.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►body fluids
· Replace your body fluids by drinking lots of water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►secretion
· The quantitative effects of the drugs were related to the rate of fluid secretion or absorption.· Both drugs significantly reduced fluid secretion or increased fluid absorption.· In Brunssons's experiments, hexamethonium often turned fluid secretion into fluid absorption.· The effect was more pronounced the lower the rate of fluid absorption or the higher the rate of fluid secretion.
1a situation that is fluid is likely to change2fluid movements are smooth, relaxed, and graceful: a loose, fluid style of dancing3a fluid substance is a liquid—fluidity /fluˈɪdəti/ noun [uncountable] → gaseous, solid