absorbent

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absorbent

1718 for both adj. and n., from L. absorbentem (nom. absorbens), prp. of absorbere (see absorb).

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absorbent ab·sorb·ent (əb-sôr'bənt, -zôr'-)
adj.
Capable of absorption; able to absorb.

ab·sorb'ent n.

Example sentences

Wrap box with enough absorbent material to contain liquid contents, and seal

inside a leak-proof plastic bag.

It's possible that our early ancestors had similarly absorbent skins.

The equipment included oil spill containment boom and absorbent materials

loaded into pre-packaged trailers.

Collect and reuse dry absorbent by filtering the used absorbent.

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"The creeks ... are an active mystery, fresh every minute. Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. The mountains ... are a passive mystery, the oldest of all. Theirs is the one simple mystery of creation from nothing, of matter itself, anything at all, the given. Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home."

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