sol
pronunciation
How to pronounce sol in British English:
UK [sɒl]
How to pronounce sol in American English:
US [soʊl]
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- Noun:
- a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid
- the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization
Word Origin
- Sol (n.)
- "the sun personified," mid-15c. (also in Old English), from Latin sol "the sun, sunlight," from PIE *s(e)wol-, variant of root *saewel- "the sun" (cognates: Sanskrit suryah, Avestan hvar "sun, light, heavens;" Greek helios; Lithuanian saule; Old Church Slavonic slunice; Gothic sauil, Old English sol "sun," swegl "sky, heavens, the sun;" Welsh haul, Old Cornish heuul, Breton heol "sun;" Old Irish suil "eye"). The PIE element -*el- in the root originally was a suffix and had an alternative form -*en-, yielding *s(u)wen-, source of English sun (n.). French soleil (10c.) is from Vulgar Latin *soliculus, diminutive of sol; in Vulgar Latin diminutives had the full meaning of their principal words.
Example
- 1. Sol and bender are extraordinary mathematicians .
- 2. Preparation of carbon nanotubes sol and its application for removal of endrin from water .
- 3. When the external temperature rises , the gel component starts to break down and become less viscous , creating new pathways through which the sol can flow and speeding up the cell 's movement .
- 4. That 's why we dig the waterproof sol origin .
- 5. Sol does his laundry all semester .