SORB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorb mean? 

• SORB (noun)
  The noun SORB has 1 sense:

1. acid gritty-textured fruit

  Familiarity information: SORB used as a noun is very rare.

• SORB (verb)
  The verb SORB has 1 sense:

1. take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption

  Familiarity information: SORB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acid gritty-textured fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

sorb; sorb apple

Hypernyms ("sorb" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("sorb" is a part of...):

service tree; sorb apple; sorb apple tree; Sorbus domestica (medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit)

• SORB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sorb    ... he / she / it sorbs   
Past simple: sorbed   
Past participle: sorbed   
-ing form: sorbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

sorb; take up

Hypernyms (to "sorb" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sorb"):

absorb (become imbued)

adsorb (accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface)

chemisorb (take up a substance by chemisorption)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

sorbent (a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption)

sorption (the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption))

 Context examples 

Calcium aluminosilicate anti-diarrheal consists of microscopically large flat plates of aluminosilicate separated by calcium ions that may sorb toxic chemotherapeutic drugs and their metabolites and inflammatory proteins such as TNF-alpha, which may help minimize chemotherapy-mediated or radiation therapy-mediated damage to the intestinal epithelium and so therapy-related diarrhea.

(Calcium Aluminosilicate Anti-Diarrheal, NCI Thesaurus)