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sorb

WordNet
  1. (v) sorb
    take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
  2. (n) sorb
    acid gritty-textured fruit
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sorb
    (Bot) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sorb
    The service-tree, Pyrus (Sorbus) domestica. The wild service-tree, Pyrus torminalis, is included under the name by Gerard, and is also often so called in more recent times. The mountain-ash, P. aucuparia, and other species of the old genus Sorbus are also likely to have been so called.
  2. (n) sorb
    The fruit of any of the above-named trees.
  3. (n) sorb
    A member of a Slavic race resident in Saxony and adjoining parts of Prussia. Also called Wend, or Lusatian Wend.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Sorb
    sorb the mountain-ash or service-tree
  2. (n) Sorb
    sorb one of a Slavonic race in Saxony and the neighbouring parts of Prussia
  3. Sorb
    Also Wend, or Lusatian Wend
  4. (n) Sorb
    a Sorb, or the Sorbian tongue
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. sorbus the tree, sorbum, the fruit; cf. F. sorbe,. See Service tree

Usage in the news

The SORB 33 arsenic removal technology and Bayoxide E33 arsenic removal media from Severn Trent Services have been selected for use by Arizona American Water Co. At six water treatment facilities in the Phoenix area. qpmag.com

The Hilltown Water and Sewer Authority, which serves Hilltown Township, a suburb of Philadelphia in Bucks County, Pa. Has installed a 300 gal per minute SORB 33 arsenic removal system utilizing Bayoxide E33 media from Severn Trent Services. qpmag.com

Sister-in-laws Connie Sorbe, of Spencer and Chris Shulte, of Fonda. stormlakepilottribune.com

SORB-A- SPILL from SAS Safety Corporation absorbs five times the amount of spills as clay products. pten.com

Usage in scientific papers

Macroscopic behavior and random-walk particle tracking of kinetically sorbing solutes.
Plumes in kinetic transport: how the simple random walk can be too simple

Usage in literature

The Sumerians were entirely ab-sorbed by those races that entered the fertile valley at a later date. "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik van Loon

O' Fridays they munched nothing but services or sorb-apples; neither were these full ripe, as I guessed by their complexion. "Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete." by Francois Rabelais

If you attempt to pass through Ifdawn without a sorb, you are simply committing suicide. "A Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsay

O' Fridays they munched nothing but services or sorb-apples; neither were these full ripe, as I guessed by their complexion. "Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book V." by Francois Rabelais

We ab-sorbed you by conquest and so you are really a part of us. "Pearl of Pearl Island" by John Oxenham

Dat's de question what 'sorbs my mind most, dese days. "Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1" by Various

Heah's de Poteland niggahs cravin' to 'sorb fish mawnin', night, an' noon. "Lady Luck" by Hugh Wiley

Uoille de sorbe, 225. "An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly" by Anonymous

Grossenhain was originally a Sorb settlement. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5" by Various

Halle is first mentioned as a fortress erected on the Saale in 806 by Charles, son of Charlemagne, during his expedition against the Sorbs. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7" by Various

Usage in poetry
An old chateau sleeps 'mid the hills
Of France: an avenue of sorbs
Conceals it: drifts of daffodils
Bloom by a 'scutcheoned gate with barbs
Like iron bills.
"Overseas" by Madison Julius Cawein Author object (456)
What is it?
What is it, in the grape turning raisin,
In the medlar, in the sorb-apple.
Wineskins of brown morbidity,
Autumnal excrementa;
What is it that reminds us of white gods?
"Medlars And Sorb-Apples" by D H Lawrence Author object (128)