In technical terms, acid is a substance that can react with a base to make a salt. In practical terms, acid is the stuff you want to keep off your hands, or any part of you, because it will eat away your skin.
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
Noun
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Noun
any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
Adjective S.
containing acid; "an acid taste"
Adjective S.
harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts
a.
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste
of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
a.
Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction.
n.
A sour substance.
n.
One of a class of compounds, generally but not always
distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening
of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the
power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases,
combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own
peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more
negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with
oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical.
Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in
distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.
Acid
He was stern and his face as acid as ever.2.
Acid
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
A sour substance.
Usage Examples
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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Other Usage ExamplesYou're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.
What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.
If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.