absorbent
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
By surface analysis, absorb + -ent.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔː.bn̩t/
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /æbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
[edit]absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)
- Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
- Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]absorbing
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Noun
[edit]absorbent (plural absorbents)
- Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
- 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, page 225, Forgotten Books:
- In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.
- (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
- (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
- (physical chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]anything which absorbs
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substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid
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vessels
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liquid used in oil refining
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References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorbent”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern) [əp.surˈbe̞n]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əp.sorˈbent]
- IPA(key): (Central) [əp.surˈben]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ap.soɾˈbent]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [ap.sorˈben]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Adjective
[edit]absorbent m or f (masculine and feminine plural absorbents)
Noun
[edit]absorbent m (plural absorbents)
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]absorbent
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [apˈsɔr.bɛnt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈsɔr.bent]
Verb
[edit]absorbent
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English absorbent, from Latin absorbēns (“swallowing, absorbing”), present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”), + and from sorbeō (“to suck in, drink up”), from Proto-Italic *sorβeō (“to suck in”), from Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti (“to be sipping, sucking”), from *srebʰ- (“to sip, gulp, suck (in)”) and *-éyeti, from *-yeti (creates transitive imperfective verbs).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]absorbent m (definite singular absorbenten, indefinite plural absorbenter, definite plural absorbentene)
- an absorbent or absorber (something which absorbs)
- 1971, Teknisk Ukeblad:
- absorbenter eller reflektorer på vegger eller i tak
- absorbents or reflectors on walls or ceilings
Synonyms
[edit]- absorbator (“absorber, absorbent”)
References
[edit]- “absorbent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “absorbent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “absorbent” in Store norske leksikon
Polish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English absorbent,[1][2] from Latin absorbēns. First attested in 1925.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]absorbent m inan
- (chemistry) absorbent, absorber (anything which absorbs)
- Synonyms: absorber, pochłaniacz
Declension
[edit]Declension of absorbent
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | absorbent | absorbenty |
| genitive | absorbentu | absorbentów |
| dative | absorbentowi | absorbentom |
| accusative | absorbent | absorbenty |
| instrumental | absorbentem | absorbentami |
| locative | absorbencie | absorbentach |
| vocative | absorbencie | absorbenty |
Related terms
[edit]adjectives
adverb
verbs
- absorbować impf, zaabsorbować pf
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “absorbent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “absorbent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Przemysł Chemiczny : miesięcznik poświęcony sprawom polskiego przemysłu chemicznego, wydawany staraniem Instytutu Badań Naukowych i Technicznych "Metan" we Lwowie[1], number R. 9, nr 11/12, 1925, page 257
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