Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
Substantiivit
- 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.
- (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
Esimerkit
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | absorbents |
| Komparatiivi | more absorbent |
| Superlatiivi | most absorbent |