Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 113
Solidism (n.) (Med.) The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
Solidist (n.) (Med.) An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. -- Dunglison.
Solidity (n.) 固體；堅硬；【數】體積；容積；完整性 The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.
That which hinders the approach of two bodies when they are moving one toward another, I call solidity. -- Locke.
Solidity (n.) Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.
Solidity (n.) (Geom.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.
Syn: Firmness; solidness; hardness; density; compactness; strength; soundness; validity; certainty.
Solidity (n.) The consistency of a solid [syn: solidity, solidness] [ant: porosity, porousness].
Solidity (n.) State of having the interior filled with matter [ant: hollowness].
Solidity (n.) The quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally; "the solidity of the evidence worked in his favor"; "the solidness of her faith gave her enduring hope" [syn: solidity, solidness].
Solidly (adv.) 堅固地；牢靠地；團結一致地 In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
Solidly (adv.) As an undiversified whole; "the unions voted solidly for Roosevelt".
Solidly (adv.) With strength and soundness; "a solidly built house".
Solidness (n.) 堅硬；厚重；團結 State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.
Solidness (n.) Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
Solidness (n.) The state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape [syn: solid, solidness, solid state].
Solidness (n.) The consistency of a solid [syn: solidity, solidness] [ant: porosity, porousness].
Solidness (n.) The quality of being substantial or having substance [syn: substantiality, substantialness, solidness] [ant: insubstantiality].
Solidness (n.) The quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally; "the solidity of the evidence worked in his favor"; "the solidness of her faith gave her enduring hope" [syn: solidity, solidness].
Solidungula (n. pl.) (Zool.) A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidae.
Solidungular (a.) (Zool.) Solipedous.
Solidungulate (n.) (Zool.) Same as Soliped.
Solidungulous (a.) (Zool.) Solipedous.
Solifidian (n.) (Eccl.) One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian. -- Hammond.
Solifidian (a.) Holding the tenets of Solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.
Solifidianism (n.) The state of Solifidians.
Soliform (a.) Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun. [R.] "Soliform things." -- Cudworth.
Solifugae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.
Soliloquized (imp. & p. p.) of Soliloquize.
Soliloquizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soliloquize.
Soliloquize (v. i.) (v. i.) 自言自語；獨白；(v. t.) 自言自語地說 To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.
Soliloquize (v.) Talk to oneself [syn: monologuize, monologuise, soliloquize, soliloquise].
Soliloquize (v.) If you make a speech to yourself in your bathroom mirror, you soliloquize.
// To soliloquize is to talk at length to yourself.
Soliloquies (n. pl. ) of Soliloquy.
Soliloquy (n.) The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.
Lovers are always allowed the comfort of soliloquy. -- Spectator.
Soliloquy (n.) A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.
The whole poem is a soliloquy. -- Prior.
Soliloquy (n.) Speech you make to yourself [syn: soliloquy, monologue].
Soliloquy (n.) A (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections.
Soliped (n.) (Zool.) A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate. [Written also solipede.]
The solipeds, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., -- they are, also, in mighty number. -- Sir T. Browne.
Solipedous (a.) Having single hoofs.
Solipsism (n.) (Ethics) Egotism. -- Krauth-Fleming.
Solipsism (n.) (Metaph.) Egoism. -- Krauth-Fleming.
Solisequious (a.) Following the course of the sun; as, solisequious plants.
Solitaire (n.) [F. See {Solitary}.] 獨居者；隱士 A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit. -- Pope.
Solitaire (n.) 【法】單粒寶石的飾物 A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
Diamond solitaires blazing on his breast and wrists. -- Mrs. R. H. Davis.
Solitaire (n.) 單人玩的牌戲；接龍 A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
Solitaire (n.) (Zool.) A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
Solitaire (n.) (Zool.) Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
Solitaire (n.) A gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself.
Solitaire (n.) Extinct flightless bird related to the dodo [syn: {solitaire}, {Pezophaps solitaria}].
Solitaire (n.) A dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song.
Solitaire (n.) A card game played by one person [syn: {solitaire}, {patience}].
Rodrigues solitaire (n.) 羅德里格斯渡渡鳥（學名：Pezophaps solitaria）是鴿形目鳩鴿科的一種鳥類，也是羅島渡渡鳥屬的唯一物種，僅分布於模里西斯的羅德里格斯島上，與同樣生存在模里西斯另一種鳥類 渡渡鳥（Raphus culullatus）是近親。
The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct, flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Genetically within the family of pigeons and doves, it was most closely related to the also extinct dodo of Mauritius, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae. The Nicobar pigeon is their closest living genetic relative.
Rodrigues solitaires grew to the size of swans, and demonstrated pronounced sexual dimorphism. Males were much larger than females and measured up to 90 centimetres (35 inches) in length and 28 kilograms (62 pounds) in weight, contrasting with 70 centimetres (28 in) and 17 kilograms (37 lb) for females. Its plumage was grey and brown; the female was paler than the male. It had a black band at the base of its slightly hooked beak, and its neck and legs were long. Both sexes were highly territorial, with large bony knobs on their wings that were used in combat. The Rodrigues solitaire laid a single egg that was incubated in turn by both sexes. Gizzard stones helped digest its food, which included fruit and seeds.
First mentioned during the 17th century, the Rodrigues solitaire was described in detail by François Leguat, the leader of a group of French Huguenot refugees who were marooned on Rodrigues in 1691–1693. It was hunted by humans and introduced animals, and was extinct by the late 18th century. Apart from Leguat's account and drawing, and a few other contemporary descriptions, nothing was known about the bird until a few subfossil bones were found in a cave in 1789. Thousands of bones have subsequently been excavated. It is the only extinct bird with a former star constellation named after it, Turdus Solitarius.
Solitarian (n.) A hermit; a solitary. [Obs.] -- Sir R. Twisden.
Solitariety (n.) The state of being solitary; solitariness. [Obs.] -- Cudworth.
Solitarily (adv.) In a solitary manner; in solitude; alone. -- Mic. vii. 14.
Solitariness (n.) Condition of being solitary.
Compare: Solitaire
Solitaire (n.) [F. See Solitary.] A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit. -- Pope.
Solitaire (n.) A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
Diamond solitaires blazing on his breast and wrists. -- Mrs. R. H. Davis.
Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
Solitaire (n.) (Zool.) A large extinct bird ({Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
Solitaire (n.) (Zool.) Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species ({Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
Solitary (a.) 單獨的，獨自的 [Z] [B]；單個的，唯一的 [Z] [B] Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. -- Milton.
Hie home unto my chamber, Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary. -- Shak.
Solitary (a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
Satan . . . explores his solitary flight. -- Milton.
Solitary (a.) Not much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
Solitary (a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people. -- Lam. i. 1.
Let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein. -- Job iii. 7.
Solitary (a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
Solitary (a.) (Bot.) Not associated with others of the same kind.
{Solitary ant} (Zool.), Any solitary hymenopterous insect of the family {Mutillidae}. The female of these insects is destitute of wings and has a powerful sting. The male is winged and resembles a wasp. Called also {spider ant}.
{Solitary bee} (Zool.), Any species of bee which does not form communities.
{Solitary sandpiper} (Zool.), An American tattler ({Totanus solitarius}).
{Solitary snipe} (Zool.), The great snipe. [Prov. Eng.]
{Solitary thrush} (Zool.) The starling. [Prov. Eng.]
Solitary (n.) 獨居者；隱士 [C]；單獨監禁 [U ] One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.
Solitude (n.) 孤獨；寂寞；隱居 [U]；冷僻（處）；荒涼（之地）[C] [U] State of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. -- Bacon.
O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? -- Cowper.
Solitude (n.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him. -- Law.
Solitude (n.) Solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells. -- Pope.
Syn: Loneliness; soitariness; loneness; retiredness; recluseness. -- {Solitude}, {Retirement}, {Seclusion}, {Loneliness}.
Usage: Retirement is a withdrawal from general society, implying that a person has been engaged in its scenes. Solitude describes the fact that a person is alone; seclusion, that he is shut out from others, usually by his own choice; loneliness, that he feels the pain and oppression of being alone. Hence, retirement is opposed to a gay, active, or public life; solitude, to society; seclusion, to freedom of access on the part of others; and loneliness, enjoyment of that society which the heart demands.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline. -- Goldsmith.
Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them. -- Dryden.
It is a place of seclusion from the external world. -- Bp. Horsley.
These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village. -- Eustace.
Solitude (n.) A state of social isolation [syn: {solitude}, {purdah}].
Solitude (n.) The state or situation of being alone.
Solitude (n.) A solitary place.
Solivagant (a.) Wandering alone. [R.] -- T. Grander.
Solivagous (a.) Solivagant.
Compare: Solar
Solar (n.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room. [Obs.] [Written also soler, solere, sollar.] -- Oxf. Gloss.
Sollar (n.) See Solar, n. [Obs.]
Sollar (n.) (Mining) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.
Sollar (v. t.) To cover, or provide with, a sollar.
Sollein (a.) Sullen; sad. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Solleret (n.) A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.
Solleret (n.) Armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel [syn: solleret, sabaton].
Solmization (n.) The act of sol-faing. [Written also solmisation.]
Note: This art was practiced by the Greeks; but six of the seven syllables now in use are generally attributed to Guido d' Arezzo, an Italian monk of the eleventh century, who is said to have taken them from the first syllables of the first six lines of the following stanza of a monkish hymn to St. John the Baptist.
Ut queant laxis
Resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
Famuli tuorum
Solve polluti
Labii reatum,
Sancte Joannes.
Professor Skeat says the name of the seventh note, si, was also formed by him [Guido] from the initials of the two words of the last line; but this is disputed, Littr['e] attributing the first use of it to Anselm of Flanders long afterwards. The syllable do is often substituted for ut.
Solmization (n.) A system of naming
the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters [syn:
solmization, solmisation].
Solmization (n.) Singing using solfa syllables to denote the
notes of the scale of C major [syn: solmization, solfege, solfeggio].
Solos (n. pl. ) of Solo.
Soli (n. pl. ) of Solo.
Solo (n.) (Mus.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.
Soloist (n.) (Mus.) One who sings or plays a solo.
Soloist (n.) A musician who performs a solo.
Solomon (n.) One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man. -- Sol`o*mon"ic, a.
Solomon's seal (Bot.), A perennial liliaceous plant of the genus Polygonatum, having simple erect or curving stems rising from thick and knotted rootstocks, and with white or greenish nodding flowers. The commonest European species is Polygonatum multiflorum. Polygonatum biflorum and Polygonatum giganteum are common in the Eastern United States. See Illust. of Rootstock.
False Solomon's seal (Bot.), any plant of the liliaceous genus Smilacina having small whitish flowers in terminal racemes or panicles.
Solomon (n.) (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC) Solomon peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early manhood, probably about sixteen or eighteen years of age. Nathan, to whom his education was intrusted, called him Jedidiah, i.e., "beloved of the Lord" (2 Sam. 12:24, 25). He was the first king of Israel "born in the purple." His father chose him as his successor, passing over the claims of his elder sons: "Assuredly Solomon my son shall reign after me." His history is recorded in 1 Kings 1-11 and 2 Chr. 1-9. His elevation to the throne took place before his father's death, and was hastened on mainly by Nathan and Bathsheba, in consequence of the rebellion of Adonijah (1 Kings 1:5-40).
During his long reign of forty years the Hebrew monarchy gained its highest splendour. This period has well been called the "Augustan age" of the Jewish annals. The first half of his reign was, however, by far the brighter and more prosperous; the latter half was clouded by the idolatries into which he fell, mainly from his heathen intermarriages (1 Kings 11:1-8; 14:21, 31).
Before his death David gave parting instructions to his son (1 Kings 2:1-9; 1 Chr. 22:7-16; 28). As soon as he had settled himself in his kingdom, and arranged the affairs of his extensive empire, he entered into an alliance with Egypt by the marriage of the daughter of Pharaoh (1 Kings 3:1), of whom, however, nothing further is recorded. He surrounded himself with all the luxuries and the external grandeur of an Eastern monarch, and his government prospered. He entered into an alliance with Hiram, king of Tyre, who in many ways greatly assisted him in his numerous undertakings. (See HIRAM.)
For some years before his death David was engaged in the active work of collecting materials (1 Chr. 29:6-9; 2 Chr. 2:3-7) for building a temple in Jerusalem as a permanent abode for the ark of the covenant. He was not permitted to build the house of God (1 Chr. 22:8); that honour was reserved to his son Solomon. (See TEMPLE.)
After the completion of the temple, Solomon engaged in the erection of many other buildings of importance in Jerusalem and in other parts of his kingdom. For the long space of thirteen years he was engaged in the erection of a royal palace on Ophel (1 Kings 7:1-12). It was 100 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 high.
Its lofty roof was supported by forty-five cedar pillars, so that the hall was like a forest of cedar wood, and hence probably it received the name of "The House of the Forest of Lebanon." In front of this "house" was another building, which was called the Porch of Pillars, and in front of this again was the "Hall of Judgment," or Throne-room (1 Kings 7:7; 10:18-20; 2 Chr. 9:17-19), "the King's Gate," where he administered justice and gave audience to his people. This palace was a building of great magnificence and beauty. A portion of it was set apart as the residence of the queen consort, the daughter of Pharaoh.
From the palace there was a private staircase of red and scented sandal wood which led up to the temple.
Solomon also constructed great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for the city (Eccl. 2:4-6).
He then built Millo (LXX., "Acra") for the defence of the city, completing a line of ramparts around it (1 Kings 9:15, 24; 11:27). He erected also many other fortifications for the defence of his kingdom at various points where it was exposed to the assault of enemies (1 Kings 9:15-19; 2 Chr. 8:2-6). Among his great undertakings must also be mentioned the building of Tadmor (q.v.) in the wilderness as a commercial depot, as well as a military outpost.
During his reign Palestine enjoyed great commercial prosperity. Extensive traffic was carried on by land with Tyre and Egypt and Arabia, and by sea with Spain and India and the coasts of Africa, by which Solomon accumulated vast stores of wealth and of the produce of all nations (1 Kings 9:26-28; 10:11, 12; 2 Chr. 8:17, 18; 9:21). This was the "golden age" of Israel. The royal magnificence and splendour of Solomon's court were unrivalled. He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, an evidence at once of his pride, his wealth, and his sensuality. The maintenance of his household involved immense expenditure. The provision required for one day was "thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl" (1 Kings 4:22, 23).
Solomon's reign was not only a period of great material prosperity, but was equally remarkable for its intellectual activity. He was the leader of his people also in this uprising amongst them of new intellectual life. "He spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes" (1 Kings 4:32, 33).
His fame was spread abroad through all lands, and men came from far and near "to hear the wisdom of Solomon." Among others thus attracted to Jerusalem was "the queen of the south" (Matt. 12:42), the queen of Sheba, a country in Arabia Felix. "Deep, indeed, must have been her yearning, and great his fame, which induced a secluded Arabian queen to break through the immemorial custom of her dreamy land, and to put forth the energy required for braving the burdens and perils of so long a journey across a wilderness. Yet this she undertook, and carried it out with safety." (1 Kings 10:1-13; 2 Chr. 9:1-12.) She was filled with amazement by all she saw and heard: "there was no more spirit in her." After an interchange of presents she returned to her native land.
But that golden age of Jewish history passed away. The bright day of Solomon's glory ended in clouds and darkness. His decline and fall from his high estate is a sad record. Chief among the causes of his decline were his polygamy and his great wealth.
"As he grew older he spent more of his time among his favourites. The idle king living among these idle women, for 1,000 women, with all their idle and mischievous attendants, filled the palaces and pleasure-houses which he had built (1 Kings 11:3), learned first to tolerate and then to imitate their heathenish ways. He did not, indeed, cease to believe in the God of Israel with his mind. He did not cease to offer the usual sacrifices in the temple at the great feasts. But his heart was not right with God; his worship became merely formal; his soul, left empty by the dying out of true religious fervour, sought to be filled with any religious excitement which offered itself.
Now for the first time a worship was publicly set up amongst the people of the Lord which was not simply irregular or forbidden, like that of Gideon (Judg. 8:27), or the Danites (Judg. 18:30, 31), but was downright idolatrous." (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13.)
This brought upon him the divine displeasure. His enemies prevailed against him (1 Kings 11:14-22, 23-25, 26-40), and one judgment after another fell upon the land. And now the end of all came, and he died, after a reign of forty years, and was buried in the city of David, and "with him was buried the short-lived glory and unity of Israel." "He leaves behind him but one weak and worthless son, to dismember his kingdom and disgrace his name." "The kingdom of Solomon," says Rawlinson, "is one of the most striking facts in the Biblical history. A petty nation, which for hundreds of years has with difficulty maintained a separate existence in the midst of warlike tribes, each of which has in turn exercised dominion over it and oppressed it, is suddenly raised by the genius of a soldier-monarch to glory and greatness. An empire is established which extends from the Euphrates to the borders of Egypt, a distance of 450 miles; and this empire, rapidly constructed, enters almost immediately on a period of peace which lasts for half a century. Wealth, grandeur, architectural magnificence, artistic excellence, commercial enterprise, a position of dignity among the great nations of the earth, are enjoyed during this space, at the end of which there is a sudden collapse. The ruling nation is split in twain, the subject-races fall off, the pre-eminence lately gained being wholly lost, the scene of struggle, strife, oppression, recovery, inglorious submission, and desperate effort, re-commences.", Historical Illustrations.
Solomon, Peaceable; perfect; one who recompenses .
Solomon, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 1072
Housing Units (2000): 452
Land area (2000): 0.655733 sq. miles (1.698341 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.655733 sq. miles (1.698341 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66275
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.918578 N, 97.369665 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67480
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Solomon, KS
Solomon
Solon (n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
Solon (n.) A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs [syn: statesman, solon, national leader].
Solon, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 21802
Housing Units (2000): 7801
Land area (2000): 20.551672 sq. miles (53.228584 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.042511 sq. miles (0.110104 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 20.594183 sq. miles (53.338688 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72928
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.389871 N, 81.442330 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44139
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Solon, OH
Solon
Solon, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 1177
Housing Units (2000): 496
Land area (2000): 1.326864 sq. miles (3.436562 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.326864 sq. miles (3.436562 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73875
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.806717 N, 91.495938 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52333
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Solon, IA
Solon
Solpugid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Solifugae.
Solpugid (n.) One of the Solifugae.
Compare: Solifugae
Solifugae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.
Solpugidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Solifugae.
Solstice (n.) 【天】至；至日；至點 A stopping or standing still of the sun. [Obs.] -- Sir T.
Solstice (n.) (Astron.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.
Solstice (n.) (Astron.) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.
Solstice (n.) Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.
Solstice (n.) [ C ] 至，至日Either of the two occasions in the year when the sun is directly above either the furthest point north or the furthest point south of the equator that it ever reaches. These are the times in the year, in the middle of the summer or winter, when there are the longest hours of day or night.
// The summer/ winter solstice.
// Traditionally, Chinese eat dumplings on the day of winter solstice meaning they are getting one year older.
Solstice (n.) Either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
Compare: Equinox
Equinox (n.) 晝夜平分時；春分；秋分 Either of the two occasions in the year when day and night are of equal length.
// The vernal/ autumn equinox.
Solstitial (a.) Of or pertaining to a solstice.
Solstitial (a.) Happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer. "Solstitial summer's heat." -- Milton.
Solubility (n.) The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.
Solubility (n.) (Bot.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil.
Solubility (n.) The quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution).
Solubility (n.) The property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve [syn: solvability, solubility] [ant: insolubility, unsolvability].
Solubility (n.) The quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid [ant: insolubility].
Soluble (a.) Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.
Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire. -- Arbuthnot.
Soluble (a.) Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. "More soluble is this knot." -- Tennyson.
Soluble (a.) Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] "The bowels must be kept soluble." -- Dunglison.
Soluble glass. (Chem.) See under Glass.
Soluble (a.) (Of a substance) Capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) [ant: indissoluble, insoluble].
Soluble (a.) Susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained; "the puzzle is soluble" [ant: insoluble].
Solubleness (n.) Quality or state of being soluble.
Solubleness (n.) The property of being dissoluble; "he measure the dissolubility of sugar in water" [syn: dissolubility, solubleness].
Solus (fem. a.) Alt. of Sola
Sola (fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.
Solute (a.) Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Solute (a.) Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful. [R.]
A brow solute, and ever-laughing eye. -- Young.
Solute (a.) 溶解的 Soluble; as, a solute salt. [Obs.]
Solute (a.) (Bot.)
Not adhering; loose; -- opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule.
Solute (v. t.) To dissolve; to resolve. [Obs.]
Solute (v. t.) To absolve; as, to solute sin. [Obs.] -- Bale.
Solute (n.) 【化】溶質；溶解物 The dissolved matter in a solution; the component of a solution that changes its state.
Solution (n.) 溶解；溶液；分解；崩潰，分離 The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity. -- Bacon.
Solution (n.) The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
Solution (n.) The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
It is unquestionably an enterprise of more promise to assail the nations in their hour of faintness and solution, than at a time when magnificent and seductive systems of worship were at their height of energy and splendor. -- I. Taylor.
Solution (n.) (Chem.Phys.) The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.
Note: When a solvent will not take in any more of a substance the solution is said to be saturated. Solution is of two kinds; viz.: (a) Mechanical solution, in which no marked chemical change takes place, and in which, in the case of solids, the dissolved body can be regained by evaporation, as in the solution of salt or sugar in water. (b) Chemical solution, in which there is involved a decided chemical change, as when limestone or zinc undergoes solution in hydrochloric acid.
Mechanical solution is regarded as a form of molecular or atomic attraction, and is probably occasioned by the formation of certain very weak and unstable compounds which are easily dissociated and pass into new and similar compounds.
Note: This word is not used in chemistry or mineralogy for fusion, or the melting of bodies by the heat of fire.
Solution (n.) Release; deliverance; discharge. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Solution (n.) (Med.) The termination of a disease; resolution.
Solution (n.) (Med.) A crisis.
Solution (n.) (Med.) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble. -- U. S. Disp.
Fehling's solution (Chem.), A standardized solution of cupric hydrate in sodium potassium tartrate, used as a means of determining the reducing power of certain sugars and sirups by the amount of red cuprous oxide thrown down.
Heavy solution (Min.), A liquid of high density, as a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide (called the Sonstadt solution or Thoulet solution) having a maximum specific gravity of 3.2, or of borotungstate of cadium ({Klein solution, specific gravity 3.6), and the like. Such solutions are much used in determining the specific gravities of minerals, and in separating them when mechanically mixed as in a pulverized rock.
Nessler's solution. See Nesslerize.
Solution of continuity, The separation of connection, or of connected substances or parts; -- applied, in surgery, to a fracture, laceration, or the like. "As in the natural body a wound, or solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt humor, so in the spiritual." -- Bacon.
Standardized solution (Chem.), A solution which is used as a reagent, and is of a known and standard strength; specifically, a normal solution, containing in each cubic centimeter as many milligrams of the element in question as the number representing its atomic weight; thus, a normal solution of silver nitrate would contain 107.7 mgr. of silver in each cubic centimeter.
Solution (n.) A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution; "he used a solution of peroxide and water".
Solution (n.) A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent].
Solution (n.) A method for solving a problem; "the easy solution is to look it up in the handbook".
Solution (n.) The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation [syn: solution, root].
Solution (n.) The successful action of solving a problem; "the solution took three hours".
Solution, () A marketroid term for something
he wants to sell you without bothering you with distinctions between hardware,
software, services, applications, file formats, companies, brand names
and operating systems. "{Flash is a perfect image-streaming
solution." "What is it?" "Um...
about a thousand dollars." See also: technology. (1998-07-07)
Solution, () civil law. Payment.
Solution, () By this term, is understood, every species of discharge or liberation, which is called satisfaction, and with which the creditor is satisfied. Dig. 46, 3, 54; Code 8, 43, 17; Inst. 3, 30. This term has rather a reference to the substance of the obligation, than to the numeration or counting of the money. Dig. 50, 16, 176. Vide Discharge of a contract.
Solutive (a.) Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative. -- Bacon.
Solvability (n.) The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.
Solvability (n.) The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.
Solvability (n.) The property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve [syn: solvability, solubility] [ant: insolubility, unsolvability].
Solvable (a.) Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.
Solvable (a.) Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations. -- Tooke.
Solvable (a.) Able to pay one's debts; solvent.
Solvableness (n.) Quality of being solvable. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Solvable (a.) Capable of being solved; "such problems are perfectly solvable" [syn: solvable, resolvable].
Solved (imp. & p. p.) of Solve.
Solving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solve.