2015 July 8, “Rapper Meek Mill Charts His First Number One Album”, inForbes:
Almost a quarter of a million copies is really asolid number for today's record industry. In fact, that number is more than the last two number one albums
2018 November 7, “Consumer borrowing up solid $10.9 billion in September”, inJournal Record:
Americans increased their borrowing by asolid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge
2018 November 7, Christian de Looper, “The best Google Assistant smart speakers you can buy”, inBusiness Insider:
On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside asolid amount of space for it.
2011 April 1, J.N. Duncan,Deadworld, Kensington Publishing Corp.,→ISBN:
He was covered in a fine mist by then, the night skies growing more saturated by the hour. It would be a nice,solid rain before long, he figured.
2015 May 1, Patrick Dobson,Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer, U of Nebraska Press,→ISBN, page128:
The ground above looked like it might give out again in asolid rain. The opposite bank promised even less. The river bent around acres of mud pocked with knots of grass and cattail spikes. I was tired. Despite the dangers of camping on such unstable ground, I dragged the canoe up the bank[…]
1853, Henry Hallam,View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, page203:
[…] the other acquired unlimited power over asolid kingdom. It would be tedious, and not very instructive, to follow the details of German public law during the middle ages : nor are the more important parts of it easily separable[…]
1904, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page,The World's Work, page4389:
[…] asolid New England vote. Even with all New England for him, Mr. Olney could scarcely carry the convention, because he is still hated by the populist and the labor and socialist elements of his party.[…]
1891, George Kennan,Siberia and the Exile System, page306:
[…] we thus succeeded in making ourselves "solid with the administration" before we had been in a town or village forty-eight hours. The next steps in our plan of campaign were, first, to forestall suspicion in the minds of the[…]
1895,Outing, page64:
I wanted to getsolid with him for a time while he lived, but I believe he might have been worked into Paradise with half the scheming that was necessary before he deigned to look favorably upon me.
1919,Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World, page19:
[Image of a man labelled 'League of Nations' pointing to a picture of a woman labelled 'Democracy Wilson'.] "If I can only getsolid with her I stand a chance in this peace game." - The Passing Show (London).
(of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
Thesolid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
1822 [1718?], Matthew Prior,The Poems of Matthew Prior ..., page253:
Loose and undisciplined the soldier lay, / Or lost in drink and game thesolid day; / Porches and schools , design'd for public good, / Uncover'd, and with scaffolds cumber'd stood, / Or nodded, threatening ruin-[…]
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1870–1871 (date written),Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLIV, inRoughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company[et al.], published1872,→OCLC,page306:
True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes insolid, and then you will see!"
Hm-m-—These papers are complete—They make Mortimer and Matilda the legal guardians of Babs—ought to put me in moresolid than ever with Miss Effie—and that home is good graft.
She was telling Bobbie about the time when Boko Fittleworth was trying to ingratiate himself with your Uncle Percy, and you very sportingly offered to go and call your Uncle Percy a lot of offensive names, so that Boko, hovering outside the door, could come in and stick up for him, thus putting himself insolid with him.
If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get insolid with Lafayette.
2008, James Oliver Curwood,The Courage of Captain Plum,→ISBN, page 3:
Then he drew a long-barreled revolver from under a coat that he had thrown aside and examined it carefully to see that the powder and ball were insolid and that none of the caps was missing
2009 July 26, Rika Otsuka, “Nikkei hits 6-wk high on earnings hopes, Hitachi jumps”, inReuters.com:
Soichi Yamazaki, chief analyst at Fukoku Capital Management said Nidec Corp's (6594.OS) earnings came in moresolid than expected on Friday
Fortunately, the president of our illustrious institution has been after me for a year to get Francis Ford Coppola to speak at next year's commencement, and Francis owes me asolid.
2012, Robert Cea,No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop[3], page61:
You can't make a move till you have about a year in a precinct, but tell you what, stay in touch. Lots a people still owe me asolid or two on the Job.
Thomas had seemed ready to spend the night on the couch, and now he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Hopping up, I followed after him. "Thanks again, Thomas," I said, opening the door for him. "I owe you asolid."
An article ofclothing which is of a singlecolor throughout.
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1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “solid”, inGweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
Delyth Prys; J.P.M. Jones; Owain Davies; Gruffudd Prys (2006),Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology[7] (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales),→ISBN
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “solid”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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