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▪ I. sorb, n.1|sɔːb|
[a. F. sorbe, or ad. L. sorbum service-berry, sorbus service-tree. Cf. serve n.1 So Du. and Flem. sorbe, obs. G. sorbe, sorb.]
1. The fruit of the service-tree (Pyrus domestica); a service-berry.
1530Palsgr. 272/2 Sorbe, a kynde of frute, sorbe. 1555Eden Decades ii. i. (Arb.) 110 A certeyne sweetnes myxt with a gentell sharpnes as haue the frutes cauled Sorbes. 1658Phillips, Sorb, a kinde of fruit, called a Service. 1853A. Soyer Pantropheon 305 Several other kinds of fruits, such as sorbs, medlars, and mulberries. 1889Edin. Rev. Apr. 472 Her native fruits were merely nuts and poor berries, masts, sorbs, and crabs.
2. a. The service-tree (Pyrus domestica).
1555Eden Decades ii. i. (Arb.) 110 note, Sorbes are cauled in french cormier; they grow not in Englande. 1707Mortimer Husb. 357 The Quick Beam or wild Sorb, by some called the Irish Ash. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 460 True Service, or Sorb. 1845Browning Englishman in Italy 138 [To] strip from the sorbs A treasure so rosy and wondrous, Of hairy gold orbs!
b. = service n. 3, service-tree 2.
1777Jacob Cat. Plants 69 Cratægus torminalis, the common or wild Service-tree, or Sorb. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 458 Wild Service-tree, or Sorb.
c. The rowan-tree; = service-tree 3.
1796W. H. Marshall W. England II. 30 The Birch, the Mountain Sorb, and the Larch, if judiciously propagated, would flourish..on the bleakest exposures. 1799W. Nicol Pract. Planter 18 The Mountain Ash, or Sorb, would exuberate here, and assist in nursing the Oak [etc.].
3. attrib. and Comb., as sorb-leaved adj., sorb-tree.
1548Turner Names Herbes 75 Thys tree maye be called in englishe a sorb tree; and the fruite a sorb Appel. 1789J. Pilkington View Derbysh. I. 405 Sorbus domestica. True Service, or Sorb-tree. 1845Florist Jrnl. 156 The sorb-leaved spirea is well known as an inhabitant of shrubberies. 1849J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inf. xv, Amongst the tart sorb-trees, it befits not the sweet fig to fructify.
▪ II. sorb, v. Physical Chem.|sɔːb|
[Back-formation from sorption, after absorb, absorption.]
a. trans. To collect by sorption. Also absol.
1909J. W. McBain in Phil. Mag. XVIII. 918 An idea of the quality of the carbon employed may be obtained from the amount of gas sorbed by it in actual experiment. 1938Proc. R. Soc. A. CLXVII. 407 The two zeolites in the form of three-dimensional networks sorb ammonia copiously without ammoniate formation. 1954Alexander & Hudson Wool viii. 261 When wool is immersed in hydrogen peroxide, some is initially sorbed by the amino and imino groups without reaction. 1970New Scientist 2 July 9/3 Papers with inked designs sorb best on the inked areas. 1972Physics Bull. Oct. 583/1 This has the advantage that exhausted water vapour is not sorbed by the trap on the fine side of the pump.
b. intr. for pass.
1970New Scientist 2 July 9/3 The SO2 sorbs strongly to these sweat patches.
Hence sorbed, ˈsorbing ppl. adjs.; also ˈsorbate2 [after distillate, filtrate, etc.], that which is sorbed.
1909Phil. Mag. XVIII. 923 The total amount of sorbed gas is 67·70 c.c. 1921Jrnl. Chem. Soc. CXIX. 454 Experimental results have always been obtained by shaking a certain volume of a solution of known strength with a known amount of sorbing material such as charcoal, and analysing a sample of the remaining solution. 1928Phil. Mag. V. 749 A revised conception of the mutual relations of sorbent and sorbate in cases where the ‘power’ time-equation holds. 1946Nature 5 Oct. 475/1 Compact, non⁓porous sorbing media such as wool. 1949Discussions Faraday Soc. VII. 136 Gmelinite and chabazite occlude a still greater variety of sorbates. 1975Nature 28 Aug. 719/1 The Mg ion of dehydrated offretite should have a strong electrostatic field around it, and sorbed molecules should be strongly attracted to form a complex. |