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SORB

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acid gritty-textured fruit

Synonyms:

sorb; sorb apple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sorb" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("sorb" is a part of...):

service tree; sorb apple; sorb apple tree; Sorbus domestica (medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption

Synonyms:

sorb; take up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "sorb" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sorb"):

absorb (become imbued)

adsorb (accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface)

chemisorb (take up a substance by chemisorption)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

sorbent (a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption)

sorption (the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption))

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