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How to pronounce “absorbent”
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Pronunciation guide for absorbent
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of absorbent with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Cesar Harada: A novel idea for cleaning up oil spills 14 minutes, 31 seconds
with oil absorbent in white
- Definition summary
- Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
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How to pronounce absorbent
Cesar Harada: A novel idea for cleaning up oil spills 14 minutes, 31 seconds
with oil absorbent in white
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “absorbent”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
- [Noun]
- Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]
- (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
- (medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
- (physical chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
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