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absorbent

English

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Etymology

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From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).

Pronunciation

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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔː.bn̩t/
  • (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /æbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

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absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)

  1. 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.

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Noun

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absorbent (plural absorbents)

  1. 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.
  2. (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]
  3. (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.
  4. (physical chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

Descendants

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  • → Polish: absorbent
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: absorbent

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References

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  1. ↑ 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.

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Adjective

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absorbent m or f (masculine and feminine plural absorbents)

  1. absorbent

Noun

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absorbent m (plural absorbents)

  1. absorbent
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Verb

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absorbent

  1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of absorber

Latin

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Verb

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absorbent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of absorbeō

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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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 (“I 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

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  • IPA(key): /absɔrˈbɛnt/, /apsɔrˈbɛnt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • Hyphenation: ab‧sor‧bent

Noun

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absorbent m (definite singular absorbenten, indefinite plural absorbenter, definite plural absorbentene)

  1. 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

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Borrowed from English absorbent,[1] from Latin absorbēns.[2] First attested in 1925.[3]

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Noun

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absorbent m inan

  1. (chemistry) absorbent, absorber (anything which absorbs)
    Synonyms: absorber, pochłaniacz

Declension

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Declension of absorbent
singular plural
nominative absorbent absorbenty
genitive absorbentu absorbentów
dative absorbentowi absorbentom
accusative absorbent absorbenty
instrumental absorbentem absorbentami
locative absorbencie absorbentach
vocative absorbencie absorbenty
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “absorbent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “absorbent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. ^ 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

Further reading

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  • absorbent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • absorbent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • absorbent in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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