Difference between Sour and Acid

What is the difference between Sour and Acid?

Sour as a noun is the sensation of a sour taste while Acid as a noun is a sour substance.

Sour

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the sensation of a sour taste a drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make or become sour To become disenchanted

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having an acid, sharp or tangy taste made rancid by fermentation etc tasting or smelling rancid peevish or bad-tempered excessively acid and thus infertile containing excess sulphur

Acid

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.Sour-tempered.Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sour substance.Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.Any compound that easily donates protons.Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond.lysergic acid diethylamide

We hope you now know whether to use Sour or Acid in your sentence.

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