Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a fluid.

Etymologies

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fluid +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Liquefaction: conversion of soil into a fluidlike mass during an earthquake or other seismic event.

    Sound Politics: But he'll try to dig it anyway 2006

  • She needed the cold, needed it to somehow brace her against the fluidlike sensation that she was dissolving.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • She needed the cold, needed it to somehow brace her against the fluidlike sensation that she was dissolving.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • She needed the cold, needed it to somehow brace her against the fluidlike sensation that she was dissolving.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • She needed the cold, needed it to somehow brace her against the fluidlike sensation that she was dissolving.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • Very recently, however, researchers verified the existence of these fluidlike energy channels, with the use of sophisticated radioactive scanning methods.

    Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

  • Very recently, however, researchers verified the existence of these fluidlike energy channels, with the use of sophisticated radioactive scanning methods.

    Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001

  • The blue eye turned toward him by migrating through the fluidlike body.

    Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • The gripper makes use of "jamming transition," in which a fluidlike material becomes virtually solid when its particles cannot move past each other in a vacuum.

    CNET News.com 2010

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