semi-liquid

English edit

Adjective edit

semi-liquid (comparative more semi-liquid, superlative most semi-liquid)

Alternative form of semiliquid
1. Viscous.
  - 1982, Arnold Finck, Fertilizers and Fertilization, page 157:
    Labor-economic considerations have often necessitated transition from solid/ liquid-manure management to semi-liquid-manure management.
  - 2003, B M McKenna, Texture in Food: Semi-Solid Foods, page xv:
    More and more foods are being developed that would be classed by the consumer as being semi-solid or semi-liquid.
  - 2004, Peter Collins, Kenneth Frampton, Réjean Legault, Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture, page 344:
    These characteristic surfaces were in fact incidental to the solution of the basic problem, which was essentially: how to pour semi-liquid concrete into formwork as a continuous operation without sacrificing the compactness and consistency essential to structural stability.
2. Able to flow but not completely freely.
  - 2004, R. Jayaprakash Reddy, Advanced Monitory Theory & Policies, page 65:
    According to Keynes, the classical approach to the transactions demand for money was incomplete because it ignored the possibility of the people choosing to hold money as an asset instead of holding other liquid or semi-liquid assets, particularly bonds, when their prices are expected to fall.
  - 2015, Zuzana Fungacova, Rima Turk, Laurent Weill, High Liquidity Creation and Bank Failures, page 10:
    We classify other types of loans as semi-liquid assets, including consumer loans, loans to the government, and interbank loans.
  - 2016, Adrian W. West, Practical Web Design for Absolute Beginners, page 81:
    A semi-liquid layout uses two special attributes, namely, min-width and max-width. We will now amend the style sheet so that our four HTML pages have a semi-liquid layout.

Noun edit

semi-liquid (plural semi-liquids)

Alternative form of semiliquid
- 1978, Sugar Journal, page 29:
  The Lotus Roll has been specifically designed to eliminate this Semi-liquid zone because it is the inventor's contention that the presence of this semi-liquid is harmful to both extraction and capacity.
- 2011, Peter Ramm, James Jian-Qiang Lu, Maaike M. V. Taklo, Handbook of Wafer Bonding, page 36:
  However, before they are crosslinked they are thermoplastics, semi-liquids, or liquids and they do flow for a short time when heated the first time to achieve crosslinking between the polymer chains.
- 2013, Ben Zhong Tang, Anjun Qin, Aggregation-Induced Emission: Applications, page 49:
  Through a rubber stopper, the semi-liquid was injected into the flask and the AAO template was immersed in the semi-liquid.