absorbent
English
Etymology
From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔː.bn̩t/
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /æbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈsɔɹ.bn̩t/, /əbˈzɔɹ.bn̩t/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
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
- absorbent cotton
- absorbent ground
- absorbent paper
- hydroabsorbent
- nonabsorbent
Translations
absorbing
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Noun
absorbent (plural absorbents)
- Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
- 1839, Darwin, Charles, 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.
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- (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.
- (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
Descendants
- Polish: absorbent
- Norwegian Bokmål: absorbent
Translations
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
- 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
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /əp.soɾˈbent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /əp.surˈben/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ap.soɾˈbent/
Adjective
absorbent (masculine and feminine plural absorbents)
- absorbent
Noun
absorbent m (plural absorbents)
- absorbent
Related terms
- absorbir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ap.sɔʁ.bɑ̃/
Audio (file)
Verb
absorbent
- third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of absorber
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈsor.bent/, [äpˈs̠ɔrbɛn̪t̪]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈsor.bent/, [äbˈsɔrben̪t̪]
Verb
absorbent
- third-person plural present active indicative of absorbeō
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /absɔrˈbɛnt/, /apsɔrˈbɛnt/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
- Hyphenation: ab‧sor‧bent
Noun
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
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Synonyms
- absorbator (“absorber, absorbent”)
References
- “absorbent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “absorbent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “absorbent” in Store norske leksikon
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English absorbent,[1] from Latin absorbēns.[2] First attested in 1925.[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /apˈsɔr.bɛnt/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔrbɛnt
- Syllabification: ab‧sor‧bent
Noun
absorbent m inan
- (chemistry) absorbent, absorber (anything which absorbs)
- Synonyms: absorber, pochłaniacz
Declension
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 |
Related terms
adjectives
- absorpcjometryczny
- absorpcyjny
adverb
- absorpcjometrycznie
nouns
- absorbancja
- absorbat
- absorbencjum
- absorber
- absorpcja
- absorpcjometr
- absorpcjometria
- absorpcyjność
verbs
- absorbować impf, zaabsorbować pf
See also
- adsorbent
References
- Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) 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, issue R. 9, nr 11/12, 1925, page 257
Further reading
- absorbent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- absorbent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- absorbent in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego