English Online Dictionary. What means acid? What does acid mean?
English
Etymology
From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ăs'ĭd, IPA(key): /ˈæsɪd/
- Rhymes: -æsɪd
Adjective
acid (comparative acider, superlative acidest)
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:acid.
Synonyms
- acidic
Antonyms
- alkaline
- base
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)
- A sour substance.
- (chemistry)
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- Any corrosive substance.
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
Antonyms
- alkali
- base
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:acid
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Welsh: asid
Translations
See also
- acerbic
- acro-
- pH
References
- “acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- -adic, Daic, adic, cadi, caid
Albanian
Noun
acid m (plural acide, definite acidi, definite plural acidet)
- (chemistry) acid
- Synonym: thartor
Declension
Further reading
- “acid”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “acid”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English acid.
Attested since at least 1970.
Pronunciation
Noun
acid m (uncountable)
- (slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- Synonym: LSD
- (music) acid.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈt͡ʃid]
Adjective
acid m or n (feminine singular acidă, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)
- acid, acidic
Declension
Related terms
- aciditate
Noun
acid m (plural acizi)
- acid
Declension
Derived terms
- acid dezoxiribonucleic
Further reading
- acid in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Adjective
acid (invariable)
- (music) acid
Noun
acid m (uncountable)
- (music) acid
Further reading
- “acid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014