sorb
See also: Sorb
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɔːb/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɔɹb/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /soːb/
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.
Noun edit
sorb (plural sorbs)
- The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
- Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
- The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
wild service tree — see wild service tree
fruit
Etymology 2 edit
Ultimately from Latin sorbeo, sorbere.
Verb edit
sorb (third-person singular simple present sorbs, present participle sorbing, simple past and past participle sorbed)
- (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- In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).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”, in 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”, in 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.
- 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,
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Anagrams edit
Romanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
sorb
- inflection of sorbi:
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
sorb m (plural sorbi)
- wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis)
Declension edit
Declension of sorb
Etymology 3 edit
From sorbi.
Noun edit
sorb n (plural sorburi)
Declension edit
Declension of sorb
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sorb | sorbul | (niște) sorburi | sorburile |
genitive/dative | (unui) sorb | sorbului | (unor) sorburi | sorburilor |
vocative | sorbule | sorburilor |
See also edit
Further reading edit
- sorb in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)