absorb
IPA: ʌbzˈɔrb
verb
- (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
- (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- (intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
- (transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
- (transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
- (transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
- (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
- (transitive) To assimilate mentally.
- (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- (transitive) To defray the costs.
- (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
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Examples of "absorb" in Sentences
- Salt absorbs a lot of moisture.
- The urine to be tested is absorbed on an absorbent body.
- The xenon is absorbed partly in the absorbing substance.
- Ladle in a cup of stock and cook until liquid is absorbed.
- Add enough cat litter to the paint to absorb all of the liquid.
- The natural pores of the quarry are great for absorbing moisture.
- Evaporators can be used to absorb heat from air or from a liquid.
- Liquid absorbent plug members are mounted in the tubular portions.
- How much dairy food must one consume in order to absorb enough calcium
- Does my skin absorb enough ultraviolet rays to produce sufficient vitamin D?
- The sulfate is subsequently removed from the body of aqueous liquid absorbent.
- Give the songwriters more money, but make the publishing companies and the labels absorb the cost.
- I felt my skin absorb the energy from the light and I could feel the energy surge through me and spread.
- Bamboo forests grow very fast and with a very little burden on environment because the quantity of CO2 that they can absorb is very high.
- And furthermore creepy, not creppy Hand, not had Meant, not ment Does, not doeis I'll skip the non use of any puntuation, I am sure your brain cant absorb any more ....
- It is also necessary that the air should have access to the roots of plants, as they depend for their nourishment almost as much on the carbon and other elements which they absorb from the air, as on those which they obtain from the soil.
- However, if they contain an absorbing agent and if their connections are open at both ends and are not tapered, they will increase in weight at the same rate after that period has elapsed, that is to say, they absorb from the air water vapour and therefore become heavier.
- More than two weeks before a McCain ad compared Mr. Obama’s celebrity quotient to that of the two blondes, Mr. Obama had them on his mind as he talked about parenting and how he and his wife watch what their daughters, Malia, 10 and Sasha, 7, absorb from the culture all around them.