different between absorbent vs huckaback

English

Etymology

From Latin absorb?ns, present active participle of absorbe? (“absorb”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?s??.bn?t/, /?b?z??.bn?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?s??.bn?t/, /æb?z??.bn?t/, /?b?s??.bn?t/, /?b?z??.bn?t/

Adjective

absorbent (comparative more absorbent, superlative most absorbent)

1. Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18^th century.]

Derived terms

• absorbent ground
• nonabsorbent

Translations

Noun

absorbent (plural absorbents)

1. Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18^th century.]
2. (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 18^th century.]
3. (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.
4. (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: absorbent

Translations

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?p.so??bent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p.sur?ben/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ap.so??bent/

Adjective

absorbent (masculine and feminine plural absorbents)

1. absorbent

Noun

absorbent m (plural absorbents)

1. absorbent

Related terms

• absorbir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.s??.b??/

Verb

absorbent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of absorber

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab?sor.bent/, [äp?s??rb?n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap?sor.bent/, [?p?s?rb?n?t?]

Verb

absorbent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of absorbe?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English absorbent, from Latin absorb?ns, present active participle of absorbe? (“absorb”), from ab- +? sorbe? (“suck in, drink down, swallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abs?r?b?nt/, /aps?r?b?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Hyphenation: ab?sor?bent

Noun

absorbent m (definite singular absorbenten, indefinite plural absorbenter, definite plural absorbentene)

1. an absorbent or absorber (something which absorbs)

Synonyms

• absorbator (“absorber, absorbent”)

References

• “absorbent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “absorbent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “absorbent” in Store norske leksikon

Polish

Etymology

From Latin absorb?ns (“absorbing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap?s?r.b?nt/

Noun

absorbent m inan

1. absorbent, absorber (anything which absorbs)

Declension

Related terms

• (adjectives) absorpcyjny, adsorpcyjny, desorpcyjny, resorpcyjny, sorpcyjny
• (adverbs) absorpcyjnie, adsorpcyjnie, resorpcyjnie, sorpcyjnie
• (nouns) absorbancja, absorbat, absorber, absorbowanie, absorpcja, absorpcyjno??, absorpcjometria, adsorbat, adsorber, adsorbent, adsorbowanie, adsorpcja, adsorpcyjno??, desorber, desorbowanie, desorpcja, resorber, resorbowanie, resorpcja, sorbat, sorbent, sorbowanie, sorpcja, sorpcyjno??, zaabsorbowanie, zaadsorbowanie, zdesorbowanie, zresorbowanie
• (verbs) absorbowa?, adsorbowa?, resorbowa?, sorbowa?, zaabsorbowa?, zaadsorbowa?, zdesorbowa?, zresorbowa?

Further reading

• absorbent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Noun

huckaback (countable and uncountable, plural huckabacks)

1. A type of coarse, absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.
   • 1910, H G Wells: The History of Mr Polly, p 27:

     "Say I can't dress a window, you thundering old Humbug," he said, and hurled the huckaback at his master. He followed this up by pitching first a blanket, then an armful of silesia, then a window support out of the window into the shop.

Translations

References

• huckaback in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.