absorber

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See also: Absorber

English

Etymology

absorb +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

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absorber (plural absorbers)

  1. Something that absorbs.
    • 1698, Richard Boulton, A Treatise Concerning the Heat of the Blood and Also of the Use of the Lungs, London: A. & J. Churchill, p. 121,[1]
      […] these Symptoms are only curred, by such Medicines as correct the Acidity and Acrimony of the Blood, viz. When it most partakes of Acrimony by sweet diaphoretick Decoctions, or some sort of Acids, which dull and take off their corroding Edges, or when they are more Acid, by volatile Salts that carry them off by Sweat or Urine; or by Acid Absorbers, which by correcting the Acidities of the Pancreatick Juice, leave the Ferment of the Liver more predominant […]
    • 1756, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Noon, Chapter 36 “Remarks on the delluge,” p. ,[2]
      The swallows especially must do great work in the case, if we take into their number not only very many open gulphs or chasms, the depth of which no line or sound can reach; but likewise the communications of very many parts of the sea, and of many great unfathomable lochs, with the abyss. These absorbers could easily receive what had before come out of them.
    • c. 1869 Joel Dorman Steele, Answers to the Practical Questions and Problems contained in the Fourteen Weeks Courses in Physiology, Philosophy, Astronomy, and Chemistry, New York: A.S. Barnes, p. 45,[3]
      Which can be ignited the more easily with a burning-glass, black or white paper?
      Black paper, since it is a much better absorber of heat.
    1. A device which causes gas or vapor to be absorbed by a liquid. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
    2. (nuclear physics) A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor.
  2. A person who absorbs. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
    • 1885, George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume II, Chapter 12, pp. 272-273,[4]
      Old Lady Dacier’s bluntness in speaking of her grandson would have shocked Lady Wathin as much as it astonished, had she been less of an ardent absorber of aristocratic manners.
    • 1958, Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book One, Chapter 5, p. 23,[5]
      […] since few wanted mosaics any more he had turned to fresco, becoming the greatest absorber and eclectic in Italy. He had learned everything that the earlier fresco painters, from the time of Cimabue, had to teach.
    • 1999, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person” in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, New York: Back Bay Books, p. 47,[6]
      […] Walter D. (“Walt”) DeLasandro Jr. had been able to bill her parents $130 an hour plus expenses for being put in the middle and playing the role of mediator and absorber of shit from both sides while she (i.e., the depressed person, as a child) had had to perform essentially the same coprophagous services on a more or less daily basis for free […]

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absorber”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin absorbēre, present active infinitive of absorbeō (“absorb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ap.sɔʁ.be/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

absorber

  1. to absorb

Conjugation

Conjugation of absorber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple absorber
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple absorbant
/ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle absorbé
/ap.sɔʁ.be/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present absorbe
/ap.sɔʁb/ 		absorbes
/ap.sɔʁb/ 		absorbe
/ap.sɔʁb/ 		absorbons
/ap.sɔʁ.bɔ̃/ 		absorbez
/ap.sɔʁ.be/ 		absorbent
/ap.sɔʁb/
imperfect absorbais
/ap.sɔʁ.bɛ/ 		absorbais
/ap.sɔʁ.bɛ/ 		absorbait
/ap.sɔʁ.bɛ/ 		absorbions
/ap.sɔʁ.bjɔ̃/ 		absorbiez
/ap.sɔʁ.bje/ 		absorbaient
/ap.sɔʁ.bɛ/
past historic2 absorbai
/ap.sɔʁ.be/ 		absorbas
/ap.sɔʁ.ba/ 		absorba
/ap.sɔʁ.ba/ 		absorbâmes
/ap.sɔʁ.bam/ 		absorbâtes
/ap.sɔʁ.bat/ 		absorbèrent
/ap.sɔʁ.bɛʁ/
future absorberai
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁe/ 		absorberas
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁa/ 		absorbera
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁa/ 		absorberons
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/ 		absorberez
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁe/ 		absorberont
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional absorberais
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ 		absorberais
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ 		absorberait
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁɛ/ 		absorberions
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		absorberiez
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁje/ 		absorberaient
/ap.sɔʁ.bə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present absorbe
/ap.sɔʁb/ 		absorbes
/ap.sɔʁb/ 		absorbe
/ap.sɔʁb/ 		absorbions
/ap.sɔʁ.bjɔ̃/ 		absorbiez
/ap.sɔʁ.bje/ 		absorbent
/ap.sɔʁb/
imperfect2 absorbasse
/ap.sɔʁ.bas/ 		absorbasses
/ap.sɔʁ.bas/ 		absorbât
/ap.sɔʁ.ba/ 		absorbassions
/ap.sɔʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/ 		absorbassiez
/ap.sɔʁ.ba.sje/ 		absorbassent
/ap.sɔʁ.bas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — absorbe
/ap.sɔʁb/ 		— absorbons
/ap.sɔʁ.bɔ̃/ 		absorbez
/ap.sɔʁ.be/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

absorber

  1. imperative of absorbere

Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin absorbēre, present active infinitive of absorbeō (“absorb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /absoɾˈbeɾ/ [aβ̞.soɾˈβ̞eɾ]

Verb

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  1. to absorb
  2. to use up

Conjugation

Template:es-conj-er

Derived terms

Further reading

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