NOUN
- acid gritty-textured fruit
VERB
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
How To Use sorb In A Sentence
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- AERONET is a global network of more than 100 sun photometers that measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by aerosols (fine particles in the air) at wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared.
- The front end of the Jaguar was on stands and two mechanics were fitting a new shock absorber. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
- Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.
- Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
- Ireland does not have another manufacturing facility with a similar capacity to absorb glass cullet (crushed glass).
- The potatoes will absorb any excess liquid overnight. Times, Sunday Times
- He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.
- Fructose is absorbed more slowly than glucose and galactose. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
- It also provides ample cushioning with shock-absorbing HydroFlow technology in the heel and forefoot, and has a water-repellant upper.
