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Sorb

//sɔːb// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
  2. 2
    A member of a Slavic people living in Lusatia in eastern Germany.
  3. 3
    acid gritty-textured fruit wordnet
  4. 4
    Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
  5. 5
    The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
Verb
  1. 1
    To absorb or adsorb.

    "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148, In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2)."

  2. 2
    take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from absorb and adsorb; ultimately from Latin sorbeō.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German Sorbe, from Lower Sorbian Serb, the self-appointed name. Doublet of Serb.

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