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Acid 1Definition: Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
Acid 2Definition: Of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction. Acid 3Definition: A sour substance. Acid 4Definition: One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids. acid 5Definition: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide acid 6Definition: any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt acid 7Definition: containing acid; "an acid taste" acid 8Definition: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts
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