sorb

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /sɔːb/    美 /sɔɹb/|/soːb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
  2. Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
  3. The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
动词 v.
  1. 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148, In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).

词形变化

sorbs plural sorbs present,singular,third-person sorbing participle,present sorbed participle,past sorbed past

词汇关系

衍生词
sorb apple sorbic sorbin sorbite sorbitol

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.
词源 2
Back-formation from absorb and adsorb; ultimately from Latin sorbeō.
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