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acid

See also: ACID, Acid, and àcid

English

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Etymology

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From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.

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acid (comparative acider, superlative acidest)

  1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
    acid fruits or liquors
  2. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
    His response was harsh and acid.
  3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
    acid soils
    • 1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us, page 101:
      Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
  4. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

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Noun

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hydrochloric acid

acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)

  1. A sour substance.
  2. (chemistry)
    1. Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
      • 2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science‎[1], volume 6, →DOI:
        SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
    2. Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
    3. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
  3. Any corrosive substance.
    • 2006, James Fenton, Jerusalem:
      You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
  4. (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
    • 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 171:
      In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.

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terms derived from “acid”
types of acid

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  • → Welsh: asid

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Albanian

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Noun

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acid m (plural acide, definite acidi, definite plural acidet)

  1. (chemistry) acid
    Synonym: thartor

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Declension of acid
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative acid acidi acide acidet
accusative acidin
dative acidi acidit acideve acideve
ablative acidesh

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  • “acid”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980
  • “acid”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Dutch

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English acid.

Attested since at least 1970.

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acid m (uncountable)

  1. (slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide
    Synonym: LSD
  2. (music) acid

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).

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acid m or n (feminine singular acidă, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)

  1. acid, acidic

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite acid acidă acizi acide
definite acidul acida acizii acidele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite acid acide acizi acide
definite acidului acidei acizilor acidilor
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acid m (plural acizi)

  1. acid

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative acid acidul acizi acizii
genitive-dative acid acidului acizi acizilor
vocative acidule acizilor

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Adjective

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acid (invariable)

  1. (music) acid

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acid m (uncountable)

  1. (music) acid

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