Gas found in its natural state, containing such amounts of compounds of sulphur as to make it impractical to use, without purifying, because of its corrosive effect on piping and equipment
If a friendship, situation, or attitude sours or if something sours it, it becomes less friendly, enjoyable, or hopeful. If anything sours the relationship, it is likely to be real differences in their world-views Her mood soured a little
Almost a synonym for ACIDIC Implies presence of acetic acid plus excess acid component (Is also one of the four basic taste sensations detected by the human tongue)
{i} one of the four primary tastes (along with bitter, salty and sweet); something with a sour flavor; alcoholic beverage made with lemon or lime juice mixed with sugar and whiskey or gin
make sour or more sour smelling of fermentation or staleness having a sharp biting taste one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the (Atasözü)ially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
disapproval If you refer to someone's attitude as sour grapes, you mean that they say that something is worthless or undesirable because they want it themselves but cannot have it. Page's response to the suggestion that this might be sour grapes because his company lost the bid is: `Life's too short for that.'
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
If a situation or relationship turns sour or goes sour, it stops being enjoyable or satisfactory. Even the European dream is beginning to turn sour Their songs are filled with tales of love gone sour
A basic taste characterized by solutions of tartaric acid, citric acid, or malic acid The unpleasant acidity of a sour coffee cannot be confused with the natural acidity of some coffees in which this quality is prized Perceived at the tip of the tongue
sourness
Silbentrennung
sour·ness
Aussprache
Etymologie
[ 'sau(-&)r ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English sur; akin to Old High German sur sour, Lithuanian surus salty.