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sorb1

–noun

1.	a European tree, Sorbus domestica.

2.	Also called sorb apple. the fruit of this tree.

[Origin: 1520–30; < L sorbum serviceberry and sorbus service tree

]

—Related forms

sorbic, adjective

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–verb (used with object) Chemistry.

to gather on a surface either by absorption, adsorption, or a combination of the two processes.

[Origin: 1905–10; extracted from absorb and adsorb

]

—Related forms

sorb·a·ble, adjective

sorb·a·bil·i·ty, noun

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–noun

a Wend.

[Origin: 1835–45; < G Sorbe ≪ Lusatian serbje, serbjo

]

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tr.v. sorbed, sorb·ing, sorbs
To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption.

[Back-formation from absorb and adsorb.]

sorb'a·bil'i·ty n., sorb'a·ble adj., sorb'ent adj. & n.

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n.

Any of several Old World trees of the genus Sorbus in the rose family, as the service tree or the rowan.
The fruit of any of these plants.

[French sorbe, sorb fruit, from Old French sourbe, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, from Latin sorbum.]

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n. A member of a Slavic people inhabiting the region of Lusatia in eastern Germany and southwest Poland. Also called Wend.

[German Sorbe, perhaps variant of Serbe, Serb, from Serbian Srb, Serb.]

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Sorb

1836 (implied in Sorbian), from Ger. Sorbe, from Slavic Serb, the national designation. Slavic people surviving in Lusatia, eastern Saxony, also known as Wends.

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"fruit of the service tree," 1530, from Fr. sorbe, from L. sorbum "service-berry" (small, edible fruit of the European mountain ash), from sorbus, from PIE base *sor-/*ser- "red, reddish-brown." Hence sorbic acid (1815), so called because it was first isolated from these berries.

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sorb
noun
1.	acid gritty-textured fruit
verb
1.	take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption

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Main Entry: sorb
Pronunciation: 'sorb
Function: transitive verb
: to take up and hold by either adsorption or absorption

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Sorb\, n.[L. sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. F. sorbe. See Service tree.] (Bot.) (a) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. (b) The fruit of these trees.

Sorb apple, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.

Sorb tree, the wild service tree.

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