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Definition of liquid in English:

liquid

noun ˈlɪkwɪdˈlɪkwɪd
  • 1A substance that flows freely but is of constant volume, having a consistency like that of water or oil.

    drink plenty of liquids

    喝足够的水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, you should always drink plenty of liquids (water is the best).
    • As air is beaten into the mixture, the egg whites become a frothy liquid with the consistency of an egg cream.
    • He poured the steaming hot liquid into her cup.
    • Pour additional reserved cooking liquid into the mold.
    • Authorities released a dispersing liquid into the coastal waters to dilute the slick.
    • Place over medium heat until almost all of the liquid in the pan has evaporated.
    • Drain the pineapple and strain the poaching liquid through a fine mesh sieve.
    • Each person then sips the liquid through a silver tube.
    • The thick brown liquid sloshed in the bottle as she turned it over in her hands.
    • She propped him up and Anna forced him to drink the liquid in the cup.
    • The solid that dissolves in a liquid is the solute and the liquid in which it dissolves is the solvent.
    • The volume of the liquids is constant, so the curvature of their interface will change.
    • Sand is a good and inexpensive filter through which a solution of solids and liquids can be passed to separate out the liquid.
    • The common glycols are colorless liquids with specific gravities greater than that of water.
    • Chromatography is a technique for analyzing mixtures of gases, liquids, or dissolved substances.
    • Drink plenty of liquids, such as water, juice or tea.
    • Water and mercury are liquids at room temperature so they get the vapor title.
    • Drinking plenty of liquids such as water, fruit juice, and vegetable juice can help prevent dehydration.
    • He had no sooner poured the amber liquid into the glass when he heard something run into his door.
    • Only a slight pool of a shimmering silver liquid on the floor made him stop and take notice.
    Synonyms
    fluid
    moisture, wet, wetness, damp, dampness
    liquor
    solution
    juice, sap, secretion
  • 2Phonetics
    A consonant produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the sides of the tongue (typically l and r).

    流音

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, the poems themselves employ a vocabulary of linguistics: plosive, liquids, vocables, vowels, consonants.
adjective ˈlɪkwɪdˈlɪkwɪd
  • 1Having the consistency of a liquid.

    liquid fertilizer
    liquid refreshments
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When the seedlings appear, fertilise with half strength liquid fertiliser and mulch.
    • The liquid solution works by binding to anything it is attracted to, such as cement or lime.
    • Place one pint of liquid fertilizer in the jar and add two teaspoons of the liquid herbicide.
    • Feed in spring and summer with a balanced liquid fertiliser, to help speed up growth and enhance the plant's health.
    • The salts considerably lower the freezing point, meaning that, despite the big chill, water can remain in liquid form, which all known life forms require.
    • Allow the chocolate to melt over the hot water and stir it occasionally until it has achieved a liquid consistency.
    • Gazpachos can thus range in consistency from very liquid to almost solid.
    • When seedlings appear apply a liquid fertiliser at half strength.
    • The cream's liquid consistency should be absorbed by the skin 30 minutes before sun exposure so it doesn't rub off easily.
    • I flushed hundreds of eyes with water and liquid antacid.
    • Seventy-two percent use both liquid and granular fertilizers on their courses.
    • In one week, fertilise with half strength liquid fertiliser.
    • As your bulbs finish flowing, don't cut them back, but continue to feed them with liquid fertiliser over the foliage.
    • Feed plants regularly with a balanced granular fertilizer or liquid plant food.
    • Most strippers have either a semi-paste or a thin liquid consistency, the premium agent of which is methylene chloride.
    • You could cull some duds in advance by calculating whether the planet was in the habitable zone - the proper distance from its sun for water to be liquid.
    • For three long days, this will be your only liquid source - your water.
    • Try to alternate between some of the different liquid fertilisers I have mentioned.
    • During the growing season (late spring to autumn), keep the plant watered and apply a liquid feed every month, as the compost must be moist in winter.
    • After they have been planted for a week, fertilise with half-strength liquid fertiliser.
    • All pots were watered regularly until mid-July and supplied with liquid inorganic fertilizer on a monthly basis.
    • We know how to laugh about pain, because ultimately in the scope of this enormous complex universe our tiny struggles are as significant as a crumb of eggshell in a vat of liquid concrete.
    • The subtle sweetness and refreshing flavor that linger reminds you of sunshine in liquid form.
    • I found some liquid soap in the small closet around the corner along the hallway.
    • The regency's environmental agency had sent warnings to 25 companies earlier this year for allegedly dumping their liquid waste into the rivers.
    • Simply mix the liquid solution with water and sprinkle over your already decaying organic material.
    Synonyms
    fluid, flowing, running
    runny, watery, thin, sloppy, aqueous, liquefied
    melted, molten, thawed, dissolved, uncongealed
    technical hydrous
    1. 1.1 Having the translucence of water; clear.
      如水的,清澈的
      looking into those liquid dark eyes

      望着那如水的深色双眸。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Twirling a lock of his long white beard around a finger, the old man looked solemnly at me as his dark liquid eyes gazed at me intently.
      • This lake, though looking as liquid as water, was not clear, but black.
      • My truth is warm liquid dark eyes and truly good people.
      • The windows of buildings were filled with a liquid dark and alleyways receded into nothing.
      • They favored quiet meadows where they could gaze at the world through dark, liquid eyes.
      • Now though, as she saw Eve's soft liquid brown eyes gazing softly down at her, she could no longer hold it in anymore.
      • My attention shifted to Jason, who was currently looking straight at his cousin, his dark eyes pensive, liquid pools of thought.
      • With dark, liquid eyes, black gloves and dramatic eye masks, black - footed ferrets are elegant hunters.
      Synonyms
      clear, transparent, limpid, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through
      translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy
      bright, shining, brilliant, glowing, gleaming
    2. 1.2 Denoting a substance normally a gas that has been liquefied by cold or pressure.
      液化的
      liquid oxygen

      液氧。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A second later, this led to the structural failure of the external tank, igniting the liquid hydrogen and oxygen it carried into a fireball.
      • Neon, because it has such a low boiling point, doesn't liquefy with the other gases but hovers above the liquid air and can be removed.
      • They believe that this underground fluid was mainly liquid carbon dioxide.
      • Embryogenic tissues were homogenized to a very fine powder in liquid nitrogen and then sugar extraction was carried out.
      • Real snow was to have been made on site by spraying air, water, and liquid nitrogen under pressure.
      • Therefore liquid hydrogen tanks would need to be much larger and at the same time stronger and insulated in order to hold the extremely cold liquid hydrogen.
      • Some of the cars will use extremely cold liquid hydrogen; others will use hydrogen in a compressed, gaseous form.
      • At the top of the cylinder, there is a smaller cylinder filled with a compressed gas - liquid carbon dioxide, for example.
      • During the eight and a half minutes of main engine burn time, those pumps will have moved about 528,600 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen.
      • Frozen leaves were ground to a powder in a mortar with a pestle in the presence of liquid nitrogen in a cold room.
      • The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
      • This would be consistent with liquid methane falling on the surface for eons.
      • They also wanted a second look at a liquid hydrogen pressurization relief valve that cycled more times during the first tanking test than is standard.
      • Leaf samples were cut into small pieces and ground with a pinch of sand, liquid nitrogen, and a cold mortar and pestle.
      • About midnight, they'll start putting 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in it.
      • Phillips then explained that the standard cooling technique of immersing something in a cold medium, such as liquid nitrogen, is often not adequate.
      • Grudgingly, and with a countenance colder than liquid nitrogen, Cora turned and stormed off down the hall.
      • There are a variety of less-polluting oil and gas fuels, including liquid petroleum gas, liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas.
      • The pilot wears a pressure suit and uses the onboard liquid oxygen system for breathing at high altitudes.
      • Among those are variations on fuel cells, some of which use liquid methanol, water and a catalyst to drive a reaction which generates electricity.
    3. 1.3 Not fixed or stable; fluid.
      不固定的;不稳定的;流动的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At times there are bursts of pure, liquid dance, at others performers are grabbing handfuls of skin and carrying each other around.
      • At the other extreme are flowing, liquid garments.
      • Now Kiefer was demonstrating a jump shot and his body was pure grace and liquid movement.
  • 2(of a sound) clear, pure, and flowing; harmonious.

    (声音)清纯流畅的;和谐的

    the liquid song of the birds

    鸟儿们清脆柔美的叫声。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It glided through the evening air, half song and half word, a sound of liquid calm and cool darkness.
    • The liquid sound is then further energised by succussion (shaking vigorously).
    • These nests and this large songbird's melodious, liquid calls are signatures of the Neotropical lowlands.
    • He is undoubtedly a driving force behind the band, his lilting, liquid bass lines underpinning the more ethereal, fractured sound that surrounds them.
    • The gentle liquid sound of the pool was louder when the wind came.
    • From the clipped liquid sounds it spoke I'd guess it had gotten little more than half the sounds I'd spoken.
    • Sometimes, Mackenzie can be surprisingly conventional in terms of his chosen amplifier sound: warm and mellow, with a liquid tone.
    • Pure liquid trills of a Bulbul coming from some nearby tree bought a smile of delight to his lips.
    Synonyms
    pure, clear, smooth, fluent, distinct, clarion
    mellifluous, dulcet, mellow, sweet, sweet-sounding, sweet-toned, soft, melodious, honeyed, soothing, tuneful, musical, lilting, lyrical, harmonious, euphonious
    rare mellifluent
  • 3(of assets) held in cash or easily converted into cash.

    (资产)流动的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the same time, greatly heightened demand for safe and liquid assets encouraged shifts from equity markets into deposit assets.
    • Ten percent of it must be in the form of Singapore government securities, with the rest in the form of cash or other liquid assets.
    • So if it has a bad month and it has no supply of liquid assets like a money market account, the company has nothing to make its necessary payments.
    • ‘All assets, both fixed and liquid, will be reverted to the new government,’ he said.
    • Although he has slipped recently in the rich lists, he is still reckoned to have around £1 billion of liquid assets to hand.
    • Since stocks are a liquid asset, cashing out for an emergency or for a planned expense can be handled fairly easily.
    • Borrowers will also desire less debt, since balance sheet liquidity is a concept in which debt is netted against liquid assets.
    • There are no liquid assets aside from money, unless there is a central bank.
    • This is simplest if you have spare cash, shares or other liquid assets that can easily be siphoned off into a trust when you die.
    • We recommend you hold around three to six months of your net salary in liquid assets (that can be readily converted to cash).
    • In other words, any mixture of liquid assets will be classified as money as long as this mixture passes the correlation test.
    • Most of the wealth has shifted into liquid assets, as uncertain investors stay out of the markets.
    • All are short-term, highly liquid assets that can easily be converted into cash and used as currency.
    • It is also crucial to recognize that most productive assets are not liquid; they are significantly immobile or irreversible.
    • Investments must be in financially sound firms with highly liquid shares.
    • The extent to which the assets of the monetary system consist of ultimate liquid assets is a qualitative characteristic of the money supply.
    • These liquid assets are sometimes referred to as ‘general collateral’.
    • The remainder is invested in liquid assets such as cash and money market instruments.
    • The best asset plays are those that hold large chunks of cash, liquid investments and property - items that are readily re-usable or re-saleable.
    • He said the ratio of liquid assets to total deposits and short term liabilities was above the minimum prudential norm of 50 per cent.
    Synonyms
    convertible, negotiable, disposable, usable, realizable, obtainable, spendable
    1. 3.1 Having ready cash or liquid assets.
      有现金(或流动资产)的
    2. 3.2 (of a market) having a high volume of activity.
      (市场)活跃的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That's pretty revolutionary, because it makes the trade-finance market incredibly liquid and incredibly robust.
      • A liquid market is one where it is possible to buy and sell stocks quickly.
      • The capital return is predictable, the market is highly liquid, the costs are low, the likelihood of trading statement shock avoided and returns of capital as good as guaranteed.
      • Remember the market is not liquid or transparent and there aren't necessarily ten other people who will want to buy the stone you are selling at a competitive price.
      • To date, few buyers have used rating and coverage packages, but insurers predict that will change when online markets become more liquid.
      • Depository receipts are typically used to allow a stock to trade on a more lucrative, more exposed, more liquid market.
      • A liquid market with little information is one where prices are typically highly volatile.
      • Buying a property without knowing how liquid the resale market is can be dangerous.
      • On the other hand, prices in the deep countryside are difficult to predict, owing to lower demand and a less liquid market.
      • Carey says he took the partnership public to create a liquid market for investors who wanted to cash out.
      • Such rigging is virtually impossible in a liquid market, and it will cost that slimeball dearly to try.
      • The first is to stabilise the market in periods of market dysfunction, such as when the market is very liquid.
      • Swan attributes this to better yields in Britain, lower vacancy rates and transaction costs and a more liquid market in general.
      • Instead, they will look to Britain and the eurozone where there is a greater supply of properties and the markets are more liquid.
      • Whatever you buy needs to be of investment grade - meaning in pristine condition, preferably boxed, and the market needs to be liquid.
      • They are very important players in less liquid markets like the credit markets.
      • Brokers such as Francis sustained a liquid market for bank notes, even during the Panic of 1837.
      • A liquid market and stable overnight rates is expected this week while on the other hand a further decline in treasury bill rates is inevitable.
      • Especially to accommodate the explosion of the derivatives markets, the Fed must guarantee continuous and liquid markets.
      • People will probably not buy and sell them unless the markets for them are liquid, which means that a lot of traders must be there at the same time.

Derivatives

  • liquidly

  • adverb ˈlɪkwɪdliˈlɪkwɪdli
    • Her knees buckled and she slid almost liquidly to the ground.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Exterior landscape and architecture liquidly transition into shots of the actors.
      • The multistrand material, which glistened almost liquidly, turned out to be grounding braid, more commonly used by electricians than by artists.
      • In one liquidly fluid movement, I stood and stretched, yawning lightly.
      • Silently he began moving his hands liquidly as he spoke.
  • liquidness

  • noun ˈlɪkwɪdnəsˈlɪkwɪdnəs
    • But perhaps ‘established trade practice’ in the hair products industry puts the line between solid and liquid directly between the solidy liquidness of shampoo and the liquidy solidness of gel.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Every movement of the eyeball becomes exaggerated, and there's a liquidness to the lens itself.
      • Her studio is a laboratory in which she experiments with various color combinations, degrees of liquidness, and/or tighter or looser intervals between wider or narrower bands and streaks.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin liquidus, from liquere 'be liquid'.

Rhymes

illiquid

Definition of liquid in US English:

liquid

nounˈlikwidˈlɪkwɪd
  • 1A substance that flows freely but is of constant volume, having a consistency like that of water or oil.

    drink plenty of liquids

    喝足够的水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, you should always drink plenty of liquids (water is the best).
    • Chromatography is a technique for analyzing mixtures of gases, liquids, or dissolved substances.
    • Authorities released a dispersing liquid into the coastal waters to dilute the slick.
    • Drink plenty of liquids, such as water, juice or tea.
    • Place over medium heat until almost all of the liquid in the pan has evaporated.
    • Pour additional reserved cooking liquid into the mold.
    • Only a slight pool of a shimmering silver liquid on the floor made him stop and take notice.
    • He poured the steaming hot liquid into her cup.
    • Each person then sips the liquid through a silver tube.
    • She propped him up and Anna forced him to drink the liquid in the cup.
    • He had no sooner poured the amber liquid into the glass when he heard something run into his door.
    • Drinking plenty of liquids such as water, fruit juice, and vegetable juice can help prevent dehydration.
    • As air is beaten into the mixture, the egg whites become a frothy liquid with the consistency of an egg cream.
    • Drain the pineapple and strain the poaching liquid through a fine mesh sieve.
    • Water and mercury are liquids at room temperature so they get the vapor title.
    • The common glycols are colorless liquids with specific gravities greater than that of water.
    • The volume of the liquids is constant, so the curvature of their interface will change.
    • The solid that dissolves in a liquid is the solute and the liquid in which it dissolves is the solvent.
    • The thick brown liquid sloshed in the bottle as she turned it over in her hands.
    • Sand is a good and inexpensive filter through which a solution of solids and liquids can be passed to separate out the liquid.
    Synonyms
    fluid
  • 2Phonetics
    A consonant produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the sides of the tongue, and able to be prolonged like a vowel (typically l and r).

    流音

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, the poems themselves employ a vocabulary of linguistics: plosive, liquids, vocables, vowels, consonants.
adjectiveˈlikwidˈlɪkwɪd
  • 1Having a consistency like that of water or oil, i.e., flowing freely but of constant volume.

    液体的,流质的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Seventy-two percent use both liquid and granular fertilizers on their courses.
    • Try to alternate between some of the different liquid fertilisers I have mentioned.
    • Feed in spring and summer with a balanced liquid fertiliser, to help speed up growth and enhance the plant's health.
    • All pots were watered regularly until mid-July and supplied with liquid inorganic fertilizer on a monthly basis.
    • The cream's liquid consistency should be absorbed by the skin 30 minutes before sun exposure so it doesn't rub off easily.
    • For three long days, this will be your only liquid source - your water.
    • You could cull some duds in advance by calculating whether the planet was in the habitable zone - the proper distance from its sun for water to be liquid.
    • The salts considerably lower the freezing point, meaning that, despite the big chill, water can remain in liquid form, which all known life forms require.
    • The regency's environmental agency had sent warnings to 25 companies earlier this year for allegedly dumping their liquid waste into the rivers.
    • During the growing season (late spring to autumn), keep the plant watered and apply a liquid feed every month, as the compost must be moist in winter.
    • Place one pint of liquid fertilizer in the jar and add two teaspoons of the liquid herbicide.
    • As your bulbs finish flowing, don't cut them back, but continue to feed them with liquid fertiliser over the foliage.
    • We know how to laugh about pain, because ultimately in the scope of this enormous complex universe our tiny struggles are as significant as a crumb of eggshell in a vat of liquid concrete.
    • After they have been planted for a week, fertilise with half-strength liquid fertiliser.
    • I found some liquid soap in the small closet around the corner along the hallway.
    • I flushed hundreds of eyes with water and liquid antacid.
    • The liquid solution works by binding to anything it is attracted to, such as cement or lime.
    • Allow the chocolate to melt over the hot water and stir it occasionally until it has achieved a liquid consistency.
    • Simply mix the liquid solution with water and sprinkle over your already decaying organic material.
    • Gazpachos can thus range in consistency from very liquid to almost solid.
    • The subtle sweetness and refreshing flavor that linger reminds you of sunshine in liquid form.
    • When seedlings appear apply a liquid fertiliser at half strength.
    • When the seedlings appear, fertilise with half strength liquid fertiliser and mulch.
    • In one week, fertilise with half strength liquid fertiliser.
    • Most strippers have either a semi-paste or a thin liquid consistency, the premium agent of which is methylene chloride.
    • Feed plants regularly with a balanced granular fertilizer or liquid plant food.
    Synonyms
    fluid, flowing, running
    1. 1.1 Having the clear shimmer of water.
      looking into those liquid dark eyes

      望着那如水的深色双眸。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Twirling a lock of his long white beard around a finger, the old man looked solemnly at me as his dark liquid eyes gazed at me intently.
      • Now though, as she saw Eve's soft liquid brown eyes gazing softly down at her, she could no longer hold it in anymore.
      • They favored quiet meadows where they could gaze at the world through dark, liquid eyes.
      • The windows of buildings were filled with a liquid dark and alleyways receded into nothing.
      • My truth is warm liquid dark eyes and truly good people.
      • This lake, though looking as liquid as water, was not clear, but black.
      • My attention shifted to Jason, who was currently looking straight at his cousin, his dark eyes pensive, liquid pools of thought.
      • With dark, liquid eyes, black gloves and dramatic eye masks, black - footed ferrets are elegant hunters.
      Synonyms
      clear, transparent, limpid, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through
    2. 1.2 Denoting a substance normally a gas that has been liquefied by cold or pressure.
      液化的
      liquid oxygen

      液氧。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some of the cars will use extremely cold liquid hydrogen; others will use hydrogen in a compressed, gaseous form.
      • The pilot wears a pressure suit and uses the onboard liquid oxygen system for breathing at high altitudes.
      • There are a variety of less-polluting oil and gas fuels, including liquid petroleum gas, liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas.
      • Phillips then explained that the standard cooling technique of immersing something in a cold medium, such as liquid nitrogen, is often not adequate.
      • At the top of the cylinder, there is a smaller cylinder filled with a compressed gas - liquid carbon dioxide, for example.
      • The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
      • During the eight and a half minutes of main engine burn time, those pumps will have moved about 528,600 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen.
      • Leaf samples were cut into small pieces and ground with a pinch of sand, liquid nitrogen, and a cold mortar and pestle.
      • Among those are variations on fuel cells, some of which use liquid methanol, water and a catalyst to drive a reaction which generates electricity.
      • About midnight, they'll start putting 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in it.
      • They also wanted a second look at a liquid hydrogen pressurization relief valve that cycled more times during the first tanking test than is standard.
      • Neon, because it has such a low boiling point, doesn't liquefy with the other gases but hovers above the liquid air and can be removed.
      • Grudgingly, and with a countenance colder than liquid nitrogen, Cora turned and stormed off down the hall.
      • Real snow was to have been made on site by spraying air, water, and liquid nitrogen under pressure.
      • Embryogenic tissues were homogenized to a very fine powder in liquid nitrogen and then sugar extraction was carried out.
      • They believe that this underground fluid was mainly liquid carbon dioxide.
      • Frozen leaves were ground to a powder in a mortar with a pestle in the presence of liquid nitrogen in a cold room.
      • A second later, this led to the structural failure of the external tank, igniting the liquid hydrogen and oxygen it carried into a fireball.
      • This would be consistent with liquid methane falling on the surface for eons.
      • Therefore liquid hydrogen tanks would need to be much larger and at the same time stronger and insulated in order to hold the extremely cold liquid hydrogen.
    3. 1.3 Not fixed or stable; fluid.
      不固定的;不稳定的;流动的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the other extreme are flowing, liquid garments.
      • Now Kiefer was demonstrating a jump shot and his body was pure grace and liquid movement.
      • At times there are bursts of pure, liquid dance, at others performers are grabbing handfuls of skin and carrying each other around.
  • 2(of a sound) clear, pure, and flowing; harmonious.

    (声音)清纯流畅的;和谐的

    the liquid song of the birds

    鸟儿们清脆柔美的叫声。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The liquid sound is then further energised by succussion (shaking vigorously).
    • These nests and this large songbird's melodious, liquid calls are signatures of the Neotropical lowlands.
    • He is undoubtedly a driving force behind the band, his lilting, liquid bass lines underpinning the more ethereal, fractured sound that surrounds them.
    • Pure liquid trills of a Bulbul coming from some nearby tree bought a smile of delight to his lips.
    • It glided through the evening air, half song and half word, a sound of liquid calm and cool darkness.
    • From the clipped liquid sounds it spoke I'd guess it had gotten little more than half the sounds I'd spoken.
    • The gentle liquid sound of the pool was louder when the wind came.
    • Sometimes, Mackenzie can be surprisingly conventional in terms of his chosen amplifier sound: warm and mellow, with a liquid tone.
    Synonyms
    pure, clear, smooth, fluent, distinct, clarion
  • 3(of assets) held in cash or easily converted into cash.

    (资产)流动的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is simplest if you have spare cash, shares or other liquid assets that can easily be siphoned off into a trust when you die.
    • Ten percent of it must be in the form of Singapore government securities, with the rest in the form of cash or other liquid assets.
    • The extent to which the assets of the monetary system consist of ultimate liquid assets is a qualitative characteristic of the money supply.
    • It is also crucial to recognize that most productive assets are not liquid; they are significantly immobile or irreversible.
    • He said the ratio of liquid assets to total deposits and short term liabilities was above the minimum prudential norm of 50 per cent.
    • All are short-term, highly liquid assets that can easily be converted into cash and used as currency.
    • The best asset plays are those that hold large chunks of cash, liquid investments and property - items that are readily re-usable or re-saleable.
    • So if it has a bad month and it has no supply of liquid assets like a money market account, the company has nothing to make its necessary payments.
    • Borrowers will also desire less debt, since balance sheet liquidity is a concept in which debt is netted against liquid assets.
    • There are no liquid assets aside from money, unless there is a central bank.
    • Although he has slipped recently in the rich lists, he is still reckoned to have around £1 billion of liquid assets to hand.
    • Most of the wealth has shifted into liquid assets, as uncertain investors stay out of the markets.
    • At the same time, greatly heightened demand for safe and liquid assets encouraged shifts from equity markets into deposit assets.
    • ‘All assets, both fixed and liquid, will be reverted to the new government,’ he said.
    • Investments must be in financially sound firms with highly liquid shares.
    • In other words, any mixture of liquid assets will be classified as money as long as this mixture passes the correlation test.
    • We recommend you hold around three to six months of your net salary in liquid assets (that can be readily converted to cash).
    • The remainder is invested in liquid assets such as cash and money market instruments.
    • Since stocks are a liquid asset, cashing out for an emergency or for a planned expense can be handled fairly easily.
    • These liquid assets are sometimes referred to as ‘general collateral’.
    Synonyms
    convertible, negotiable, disposable, usable, realizable, obtainable, spendable
    1. 3.1 Having ready cash or liquid assets.
      有现金(或流动资产)的
    2. 3.2 (of a market) having a high volume of activity.
      (市场)活跃的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They are very important players in less liquid markets like the credit markets.
      • Depository receipts are typically used to allow a stock to trade on a more lucrative, more exposed, more liquid market.
      • A liquid market with little information is one where prices are typically highly volatile.
      • That's pretty revolutionary, because it makes the trade-finance market incredibly liquid and incredibly robust.
      • Instead, they will look to Britain and the eurozone where there is a greater supply of properties and the markets are more liquid.
      • Whatever you buy needs to be of investment grade - meaning in pristine condition, preferably boxed, and the market needs to be liquid.
      • Remember the market is not liquid or transparent and there aren't necessarily ten other people who will want to buy the stone you are selling at a competitive price.
      • Buying a property without knowing how liquid the resale market is can be dangerous.
      • Such rigging is virtually impossible in a liquid market, and it will cost that slimeball dearly to try.
      • A liquid market and stable overnight rates is expected this week while on the other hand a further decline in treasury bill rates is inevitable.
      • People will probably not buy and sell them unless the markets for them are liquid, which means that a lot of traders must be there at the same time.
      • A liquid market is one where it is possible to buy and sell stocks quickly.
      • Swan attributes this to better yields in Britain, lower vacancy rates and transaction costs and a more liquid market in general.
      • On the other hand, prices in the deep countryside are difficult to predict, owing to lower demand and a less liquid market.
      • Carey says he took the partnership public to create a liquid market for investors who wanted to cash out.
      • Brokers such as Francis sustained a liquid market for bank notes, even during the Panic of 1837.
      • The capital return is predictable, the market is highly liquid, the costs are low, the likelihood of trading statement shock avoided and returns of capital as good as guaranteed.
      • To date, few buyers have used rating and coverage packages, but insurers predict that will change when online markets become more liquid.
      • Especially to accommodate the explosion of the derivatives markets, the Fed must guarantee continuous and liquid markets.
      • The first is to stabilise the market in periods of market dysfunction, such as when the market is very liquid.
  • 4Phonetics
    (of a consonant, typically l and r) produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the sides of the tongue, and able to be prolonged like a vowel.

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Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin liquidus, from liquere ‘be liquid’.

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