Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of imbibing.
  • noun Chemistry Absorption of fluid by a colloid or porous solid that often results in swelling.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of imbibing; the absorption of a liquid into the passages or pores of a body.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the act of imbibing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel
  • noun the act of consuming liquids

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Examples

  • Here is the transcription of the talk, which not only explains the process of development and imbibition printing, but also notes which color timing corrections are available at which level...

    Colored Pictures Hans Perk 2007

  • Other seeds harvested at ECHO for our seedbank are dried thoroughly, but not so much that such imbibition injury is likely.

    12: Seeds and germplasm 1996

  • You risk damaging the seed by imbibition [water uptake] injury if it is sown straight from the packet into damp ground.

    12: Seeds and germplasm 1996

  • Theodor Schwann, a founder of cell theory in the mid-nineteenth century, described life as 'nothing but the form under which substances capable of imbibition crystallize.'

    Koestler's Solution Gould, Stephen Jay 1978

  • For the mental toiler, also, it is equally important that the period devoted to the restoration of brain material and the imbibition of a fresh supply of nerve power for the ensuing day's requirements should be passed under circumstances the most favourable for bestowing them.

    The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

  • He points out how organic bodies are remarkable for their powers of imbibition, and he seeks to show that the cell is the form under which a body capable of imbibition must necessarily crystallise, and that the organism is an aggregate of such imbibition-crystals.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • He proposes to support the strength by placing the patient in a tepid bath of nutritious liquids, that might enter by cutaneous imbibition, but does not recommend this.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • The cell-substance is either soluble in the cytoblastem and crystallises out only when the latter is saturated with it, or it is insoluble and crystallises as soon as it is formed, according to the aforementioned laws of the crystallisation of imbibition-bodies; it forms thus one or more layers round the nucleolus, etc.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • If, now, we presuppose absorption or even imbibition on the part of the skin, a swelling of the nerve-ends is comprehensible, as the imbibed fluid reaches them.

    The Electric Bath George M. Schweig

  • Of the third I send you half-a-dozen bottles by way of sample: a judicious imbibition of the contents will be found to be a sovereign remedy for the Pip and other kindred disorders that owe their origin to a melancholy frame of mind.

    The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Various

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  • Noun form of 'imbibe,' according to Garner's.

    January 12, 2008

  • Interesting! It sounds more "drinky" than imbibe.

    January 12, 2008