noun
Meaning 1
The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /sɔːb/
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General-American: /sɔɹb/
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Australian: /soːb/
noun
Meaning 2
Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
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noun
Meaning 3
The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
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noun
Meaning 4
A member of a Slavic people living in Lusatia in eastern Germany.
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verb
Meaning 5
To absorb or adsorb.
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Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- 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148, In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).
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noun
Meaning 6
acid gritty-textured fruit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sorb apple
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Broader terms: edible fruit
verb
Meaning 7
take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: take up
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Broader terms: change state, turn
Narrower terms: absorb, adsorb, chemisorb
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.
Borrowed from German Sorbe, from Lower Sorbian Serb, the self-appointed name. Doublet of Serb.
Back-formation from absorb and adsorb; ultimately from Latin sorbeō.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: sorbier — rowan tree
- Greek: σουρβιά (sourviá) — rowan tree
- Hungarian: berkenye — rowan tree
- Polish: jarząb domowy — rowan tree
- Turkish: üvez — rowan tree
- Welsh: criafol — rowan tree
- Catalan: serva — fruit
- French: sorbe — fruit
- French: corme — fruit
- Galician: rañote — fruit
- Galician: sorba — fruit
- German: Sporapfel — fruit
- Greek: σούρβο (soúrvo) — fruit
- Ancient Greek: ὄον (óon) — fruit
- Latin: sorbum — fruit
- Polish: owoc jarząbu domowego — fruit
- Spanish: serba — fruit
- Turkish: üvez — fruit
- Welsh: criafol — fruit
- Chinese Mandarin: 索布人 (Suǒbù rén) — member of a Slavic people
- Czech: Lužický Srb — member of a Slavic people
- Finnish: sorbi — member of a Slavic people
- Finnish: vendi — member of a Slavic people
- French: Sorabe — member of a Slavic people
- German: Sorbe — member of a Slavic people
- German: Sorbin — member of a Slavic people
- Hungarian: szorb — member of a Slavic people
- Polish: Łużyczanin — member of a Slavic people
- Polish: Łużyczanka — member of a Slavic people
- Russian: лужичанин (lužičanin) — member of a Slavic people
- Russian: лужичанка (lužičanka) — member of a Slavic people
- Lower Sorbian: Serb — member of a Slavic people
- Lower Sorbian: Serbowka — member of a Slavic people
- Upper Sorbian: Serb — member of a Slavic people
- Upper Sorbian: Serbowka — member of a Slavic people
- Spanish: sorbio — member of a Slavic people
- Spanish: sorbia — member of a Slavic people
- Swedish: sorb — member of a Slavic people
- Swedish: sorbiska — member of a Slavic people
- Finnish: sorboida — absorb or adsorb
- Polish: sorbować — absorb or adsorb