Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several Eurasian trees of the genus Sorbus of the rose family, especially a service tree.
- noun The fruit of any of these plants.
- transitive verb To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a Slavic race resident in Saxony and adjoining parts of Prussia. Also called
Wend , or Lusatian Wend. - noun The service-tree, Pyrus (Sorbus) domestica.
- noun The fruit of any of the above-named trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The wild service tree (
Pyrus torminalis ) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. - noun The fruit of these trees.
- noun the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.
- noun the wild service tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The wild
service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe. - noun The
rowan tree. - noun The
fruit of either of these trees. - verb chemistry To
absorb oradsorb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- noun acid gritty-textured fruit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Typhoid epizootic sorb increased depends upon srm-rhotard vaccine.
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He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility.
The Symposium 2006
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He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility.
thispain Diary Entry thispain 2006
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Who begat Gayoffo, whose ballocks were of poplar, and his pr ... of the service or sorb-apple-tree;
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Who begat Gayoffo, whose ballocks were of poplar, and his pr ... of the service or sorb-apple-tree;
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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She aligned her body to his and gradually let him ab sorb her wei "How's that?" he asked in her ear.
Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983
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Heah's de Poteland niggahs cravin 'to' sorb fish mawnin ', night, an' noon.
Lady Luck Hugh Wiley
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He possessed neither a sorb nor a third arm -- so presumably he was not a native of Ifdawn.
A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910
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When he realised with whom he had to deal, Crimtyphon left off smiling, slipped off the couch, and threw a terrible and malignant glare into his sorb.
A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910
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She stood upright, and her sorb suddenly blazed with fire.
A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910
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