Adjective
a substance in a fluid state
warm the jam until it is fluid, then spread it over the cake
Reading: Fluid Definition & Meaning
Noun
Please check the fluids in the car’s engine.
She needs to drink plenty of fluids.
Fluid leaked from the car’s engine.
a bottle of yellow fluid
holocene Examples on the Web : adjective
Now neither of these moves off the bounce were fluid.
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Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
But the timing is fluid, and hitting that 2025 target is dependent on the company’s ability to complete the self-driving system—an ambitious task on that schedule.
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Mark Gurman, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2021
In June, ActivePride, an employee resource group (ERG) for the company’s LGBTQ staff, produced a weekly series of events, including one featuring Jeffrey Marsh, a noted advocate for the nonbinary and gender fluid community.
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Lila Maclellan, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2021
Our kidneys no longer work to remove toxins and fluid build-up.
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Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
Astrup died in 1928, at 47, after catching a deathly chill in an open carriage on the way to a winter opening of a youth center, having wrapped his coat around a keg of beer to keep it fluid.
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BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2021
Mobley’s combination of size, fluid agility and skills on both ends of the floor could be difficult for the Rockets to pass up and unlikely to get past the Cavs.
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Jonathan Feigen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 July 2021
But the best-picture race has proved fluid in recent years, and voters may prefer a more overtly political film to represent such a tumultuous year.
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New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021
That plan could change and the situation is fluid as House Democratic leaders have already had to delay their timeline for passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill twice before.
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Daniella Diaz And Clare Foran, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
recent Examples on the Web : noun
Created by legendary artist Jack Kirby in the 1970s, Sprite has alternately been depicted as male, female and gender fluid.
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NBC News, 24 Oct. 2021
Pepi’s movement was described as fluid, straightforward and efficient.
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Manuel Veth, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
Like Gelardi, Rivera also describes her relationship with drinking as fluid.
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Rebekah Peppler, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Sep. 2021
Known as everyone’s favorite shape-shifting God of Mischief, Loki was written as gender-fluid in the Marvel comics.
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Danielle Broadway, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
That said, not even a show of that caliber could beat being chosen for this campaign, which just so happens to coincide with their first in-person Pride celebration since coming out as gender-fluid on the show.
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Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 1 June 2021
The sources told the Times that Trump had lung infiltrates, which occur when the lungs are inflamed and contain substances such as fluid or bacteria.
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San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
When Trump did get to the hospital, he was found to have lung infiltrates, which appear when the lungs are inflamed and contain substances such as fluid or bacteria, people familiar tell the Times.
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TheWeek, 11 Feb. 2021
The people familiar with Trump’s health said he was found to have lung infiltrates, which occur when the lungs are inflamed and contain substances such as fluid or bacteria.
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Noah Weiland, Star Tribune, 11 Feb. 2021
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