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English

Etymology

Originally the trademarked name of a particular brand of sphere; perhaps from orb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z??(?)b/

Noun

zorb (plural zorbs)

1. (sports) A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill

Synonyms

• hypersphere, hydrosphere

Verb

zorb (third-person singular simple present zorbs, present participle zorbing, simple past and past participle zorbed)

1. (sports) To roll downhill or engage in sports in a zorb ball.

Related terms

• zorbonaut
• zorbing

Anagrams

• Broz

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.

Noun

sorb (plural sorbs)

1. The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
2. Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
3. The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.

Derived terms

• sorb-apple

Translations

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin sorbeo, sorbere.

Verb

sorb (third-person singular simple present sorbs, present participle sorbing, simple past and past participle sorbed)

1. (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.
   • 1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, Radioactivity in the marine environment, page 148,

     In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).

   • 2005, J. E. Barbash, The Geochemistry of Pesticides, Barbara Sherwood Lollar (editor), Treatise on Geochemistry 9: Environmental Geochemistry, Second Edition, page 548,

     The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.

   • 2007, Danny D. Reible, Chapter 21: Contaminant Processes in Sediments, Marcelo H. García (editor), Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Management, Modeling, and Practice, page 966,

     The quantity sorbed is often found to be well represented by the combination of a compartment exhibiting linear, reversible sorption and a compartment that exhibits nonlinear and thermodynamic irreversib[l]e sorption.

Derived terms

• biosorb
• presorb
• sorbed phase
• sorbable
• sorbability

Related terms

• sorption

Anagrams

• BORs, Bros., ORBs, bors, bros, bros., orbs, robs

Romanian

Etymology 1

Verb

sorb

1. first-person singular present indicative of sorbi
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of sorbi
3. third-person plural present indicative of sorbi

Etymology 2

From Latin sorbus.

Noun

sorb m (plural sorbi)

1. wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis)

Etymology 3

From sorbi.

Noun

sorb n (plural sorburi)

1. whirlpool
2. strainer

See also

• vârtej