different between absorbent vs riddled

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?ld/

Verb

riddled

1. simple past tense and past participle of riddle

Adjective

riddled (comparative more riddled, superlative most riddled)

1. Damaged throughout by holes.
2. Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
   1. Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.

      The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.

   2. Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
      • 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, ?ISBN, page 235:

        They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.

Anagrams

• diddler