sorb

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɔːb/ (General American) IPA(key): /sɔɹb/ (Australian) IPA(key): /soːb/ === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree. ==== Noun ==== sorb (plural sorbs) The service tree, Sorbus domestica. Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia. The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Back-formation from absorb and adsorb; ultimately from Latin sorbeō. ==== Verb ==== sorb (third-person singular simple present sorbs, present participle sorbing, simple past and past participle sorbed) (chemistry) 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148, In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === BORs, Bros., ORBs, bors, bros, bros., orbs, robs == Romanian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== sorb inflection of sorbi: first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive third-person plural present indicative === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Latin sorbus. ==== Noun ==== sorb m (plural sorbi) wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis) ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 3 === From sorbi. ==== Noun ==== sorb n (plural sorburi) whirlpool strainer ===== Declension ===== ===== See also ===== vârtej === Further reading === “sorb”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026