absorbent englannista kaikille kielille - Sanakirja.org (englanti-*)

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RP:
- IPA: /əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/
- IPA: /əbˈzɔː.bn̩t/
US:
- IPA: /æbˈsɔr.bn̩t/
- IPA: /æbˈzɔr.bn̩t/
- IPA: /əbˈsɔr.bn̩t/
- IPA: /əbˈzɔr.bn̩t/
Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /əbs"ɔː(r)bənt/
- IPA: /əbsˈɔː(r)bənt/

Kieli	Käännökset
bulgaria	поглъщащ, попиващ
espanja	absorbente
esperanto	absorba, absorbilo
hollanti	absorberend, wateropnemend, opzuigend, absorbens
italia	assorbente, bibulo
latina	absorbens, bibulus
portugali	absorvente, absorvedor, antiácido
ranska	absorbant
ruotsi	absorberande, absorbent, absorptionsmedel
saksa	saugfähig
suomi	imukykyinen, absorbentti, absorboimisaine
venäjä	абсорбирующий (absorbirujuštši), гигроскопичный (gigroskopitšnyi), абсорбент (absorbent), поглотитель (poglotitel)

Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.

Anything which absorbs.
(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.
(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.

Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.
In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year [...] is low.

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