Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of meeting financial obligations.
- adjective Chemistry Capable of dissolving another substance.
- noun A substance in which another substance is dissolved, forming a solution.
- noun A substance, usually a liquid, capable of dissolving another substance.
- noun Something that solves or explains.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power of dissolving: as, a solvent body.
- Able or sufficient to pay all just debts: as, a solvent person or estate.
- noun Any fluid or substance that dissolves or renders other bodies liquid; a menstruum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something
- noun That which resolves.
- adjective Having the power of dissolving; dissolving.
- adjective Able or sufficient to pay all just debts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
liquid that dissolves asolid ,liquid , orgaseous solute , resulting in asolution . - noun That which
resolves . - adjective Able to pay all
debts as they become due, and having no moreliabilities thanassets . - adjective having the power of dissolving; causing solution.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
- noun a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- adjective capable of meeting financial obligations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Macdonald R. et al. [7] suggest that there are two distinct concentrating processes, which they term solvent switching and solvent depletion.
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The word solvent has appeared in 110 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 20 in "Uncertainty in Courthouse Fogs the View at the Stadium," by George Vecsey:
NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011
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FLUEGEL: We need those premium increases to remain solvent within those geographies.
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Correct these items and SS will remain solvent for years.
Greenspan's Concerns, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They also have created mass hysteria over the alleged insolvency of Social Security (expected to remain solvent until 2037) and Medicare (2029).
Martin Tolchin: How New Jacobins Persuade Us to Vote Against Our Interests Martin Tolchin 2010
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How safe and how solvent is open to question but more safe and more solvent.
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WaMu had been on the Fed's watch list for some time and was in a liquidity crisis when the government stepped in; to say they were solvent is a stretch.
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Scrub the action real good w/brushes (old tooth brushes, brass wire brush on some stuff), run a patch soaked in solvent down the barrel.
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Those should be cleaned in solvent, allowed to dry, then lubricated with no more than two small drops of low-viscosity oil.
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Scrub the action real good w/brushes (old tooth brushes, brass wire brush on some stuff), run a patch soaked in solvent down the barrel.
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