sorb

See also: Sorb

English

Autumn sorbs (fruit of the service tree)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.

Noun

sorb (plural sorbs)

1. The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
2. Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
3. The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.

Derived terms

• sorb-apple

Translations

wild service tree — see wild service tree

rowan tree

• French: sorbier (fr) m
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• Greek: σουρβιά (el) f (sourviá)

fruit

• French: sorbe (fr) f, corme (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: rañote m, sorba (gl) f
• German: Sporapfel (de) m
• Greek: σούρβο (el) n (soúrvo)

  Ancient: ὄον m (óon)

• Spanish: serba f

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin sorbeo, sorbere.

Verb

sorb (third-person singular simple present sorbs, present participle sorbing, simple past and past participle sorbed)

1. (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.
   • 1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, Radioactivity in the marine environment, page 148,

     In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).

   • 2005, J. E. Barbash, The Geochemistry of Pesticides, Barbara Sherwood Lollar (editor), Treatise on Geochemistry 9: Environmental Geochemistry, Second Edition, page 548,

     The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.

   • 2007, Danny D. Reible, Chapter 21: Contaminant Processes in Sediments, Marcelo H. García (editor), Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Management, Modeling, and Practice, page 966,

     The quantity sorbed is often found to be well represented by the combination of a compartment exhibiting linear, reversible sorption and a compartment that exhibits nonlinear and thermodynamic irreversib[l]e sorption.

Derived terms

• biosorb
• desorb
• presorb
• sorbed phase
• sorbable
• sorbability

Related terms

• sorption

Anagrams

• BORs, Bros., ORBs, bors, bros, bros., orbs, robs

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Romanian

Etymology 1

Verb

sorb

1. inflection of sorbi:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Etymology 2

From Latin sorbus.

Noun

sorb m (plural sorbi)

1. wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis)

Etymology 3

From sorbi.

Noun

sorb n (plural sorburi)

1. whirlpool
2. strainer

See also

• vârtej