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[sawrb] Pronunciation Key,
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[sawrb] Pronunciation Key, –noun
| 1. | a European tree, Sorbus domestica. |
| 2. | Also called sorb apple. the fruit of this tree. |
[Origin: 1520–30; < L sorbum serviceberry and sorbus service tree]
] —Related forms
sorbic, adjective
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[sawrb] Pronunciation Key,
[sawrb] Pronunciation Key, –verb (used with object) Chemistry.
| to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes. |
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Sorb
[sawrb] Pronunciation Key,
[sawrb] Pronunciation Key, –noun
| a Wend. |
[Origin: 1835–45; < G Sorbe ≪ Lusatian serbje, serbjo]
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| sorb 1
(sôrb) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. sorbed, sorb·ing, sorbs To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption. [Back-formation from absorb and adsorb.] sorb'a·bil'i·ty n., sorb'a·ble adj., sorb'ent adj. & n. |
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| sorb 2
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n.
[French sorbe, sorb fruit, from Old French sourbe, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, from Latin sorbum.] |
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| Sorb
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n. A member of a Slavic people inhabiting the region of Lusatia in eastern Germany and southwest Poland. Also called Wend. [German Sorbe, perhaps variant of Serbe, Serb, from Serbian Srb, Serb.] |
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Sorb
1836 (implied in Sorbian), from Ger. Sorbe, from Slavic Serb, the national designation. Slavic people surviving in Lusatia, eastern Saxony, also known as Wends.
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sorb
"fruit of the service tree," 1530, from Fr. sorbe, from L. sorbum "service-berry" (small, edible fruit of the European mountain ash), from sorbus, from PIE base *sor-/*ser- "red, reddish-brown." Hence sorbic acid (1815), so called because it was first isolated from these berries.
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| sorb | |
noun | |
| 1. | acid gritty-textured fruit |
verb | |
| 1. | take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption |
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Sorb\, n.[L. sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. F. sorbe. See Service tree.] (Bot.) (a) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. (b) The fruit of these trees. Sorb apple, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree. Sorb tree, the wild service tree.
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