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1 —as in:
a chemical solvent
Definition
a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances- Water is the most common solvent.
solvent = a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The Judge's face, indeed, rigid and singularly white, refuses to melt into this universal solvent.Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- House Of Seven Gables
- It was a pursuit like unto that of the Universal Solvent of the mediaeval alchemists.London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
- Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution
2 —as in:
the company is not solvent
Definition
capable of meeting financial obligations- The company is no longer solvent.
solvent = capable of meeting financial obligations
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.John Maynard Keynes
- He's under the thumb of a villainous money-lender; we are solvent citizens.Hornung, E. W. -- The Amateur Cracksman
- An electrical fault ignited solvents used by the owner to clean, polish and restore her antiques.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- I could smell the faint odor of the stream we had splashed through on the last leg of our journey: solvents.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- Maybe it was the fumes of the benzine and other solvents in the dry cleaner's shop.Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
- Cancerous solvents from storage tanks, arsenic from smokestacks, radioactive water from power plants.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- On stainless-steel cars, solvents were used.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- He showed Charles Chappell into a second-floor room that contained a table, medical instruments, and bottles of solvents.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- The janitorial closet smelled pungently of bleach and cleaning solvents.Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
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