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Sol

noun

A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid. Synonyms: colloidal solution, colloidal suspension.

(Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios.

The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization. Synonyms: so, soh.

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"Sol" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a cab from the town to old Sol at the turnpike—she and her mother, I reckon. They had two carpet bags and a box and a poll parrot in a cage. I counted them myself, for I was havin' a ride behind, and the woman she called Sol "Father," so the little 'un must ...

— Teddy's Button • Amy Le Feuvre

... rocks the rapid vessel flies, And the hoarse din like distant thunder dies; To Sol's bright isle our voyage we pursue, And now the glittering mountains rise to view. There, sacred to the radiant god of day, Graze the fair herds, the flocks promiscuous stray: Then suddenly was heard ...

— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

... can't be taken, sir. Far as I can make out, that ship is doomed. She's bound on collision course for Sol, only twenty million ...

— A Place in the Sun • C.H. Thames

... are certainly the limit," and he nodded towards one crowd that were talking loudly and using language that was anything but choice. In this crowd one fellow in particular, a tall, thin, leathery individual, called by the others Sol Blugg, seemed to ...

— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer

... interested in Mr. Short. His wife, a thin, gray-haired woman, who wore spectacles and had a timid manner of speaking, was less of a person than the blacksmith. Sol Short, she found out later, had never been fifty miles from Grosvenor Flat in his life, but he had the poise, the self-contained air of a man who had acquired all needed ...

— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)

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