| 单词 | sorb | 
| 释义 | sorbn.1 1.  The fruit of the service-tree ( Pyrus domestica); a service-berry. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > 			[noun]		 > pear > fruit of service-tree servec1350 aleysa1425 service1530 sorb1530 sorb-apple1548 corm1578 service apple1600 1530    J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 272/2  				Sorbe, a kynde of frute, sorbe. 1555    R. Eden tr.  Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde  ii. i. f. 56  				A certeyne sweetnes myxte with a gentell sharpnes, as haue the frutes cauled Sorbes. 1658    E. Phillips New World Eng. Words  				Sorb, a kinde of fruit, called a Service. 1853    A. Soyer Pantropheon 305  				Several other kinds of fruits, such as sorbs, medlars, and mulberries. 1889    Edinb. Rev. Apr. 472  				Her native fruits were merely nuts and poor berries, masts, sorbs, and crabs.  2.   a.  The service-tree ( Pyrus domestica). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > 			[noun]		 > pear-tree > service-tree service1510 service tree1510 sorb-apple1548 sorb1555 corm1578 whitty-treea1697 Sorbus1706 1555    R. Eden tr.  Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde  ii. i. f. 56  				Sorbes are cauled in french Cormier; they grow not in Englande. 1707    J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 357  				The Quick Beam or wild Sorb, by some called the Irish Ash. 1796    W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants 		(ed. 3)	 II. 460  				True Service, or Sorb. 1845    R. Browning Eng. in Italy in  Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 138  				[To] strip from the sorbs A treasure so rosy and wondrous, Of hairy gold orbs!  b.  = service n.2 1, service tree n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > 			[noun]		 > wild service-tree wild service tree1597 wild service1633 sorb1777 whitten pear tree1830 1777    E. Jacob Plantæ Favershamienses 69  				Cratægus torminalis, the common or wild Service-tree, or Sorb. 1796    W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants 		(ed. 3)	 II. 458  				Wild Service-tree, or Sorb.  c.  The rowan-tree; = service tree n. 2d. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > 			[noun]		 > mountain ash quick treeeOE wycheOE quickena1400 foldc1420 rowan-tree1483 quickbeam?1537 wild ash1552 field ash1578 mountain ash1597 quicken berry1597 whitten1633 witchen1664 quickenberry tree1671 wicky1681 rowan1751 narrow-leaved service tree1793 sorb1796 bastard mountain ash1800 roundwood1846 fowler's service tree1859 1796    W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. II. 30  				The Birch, the Mountain Sorb, and the Larch, if judiciously propagated, would flourish,..on the bleakest exposures. 1799    W. Nicol Pract. Planter 18  				The Mountain Ash, or Sorb, would exuberate here, and assist in nursing the Oak [etc.]. Compounds  attributive and in other combinations, as  sorb-leaved adj.,  sorb-tree. ΚΠ 1548    W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iiijv  				This tree maye be called in englishe a sorb tree, and the fruite a sorb Appel. 1789    J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 405  				Sorbus domestica. True Service, or Sorb-tree. 1845    Florist Jrnl. 156  				The sorb-leaved spirea is well known as an inhabitant of shrubberies. 1849    J. A. Carlyle tr.  Dante Inferno xv. 175  				Amongst the tart sorb-trees, it befits not the sweet fig to fructify. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Sorbn.2 1.  A member of the Slavonic race inhabiting Lusatia in the east of Saxony; a Wend. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > 			[noun]		 > Wends or Sorbs > person Serb1695 Wend1786 Sorbian1836 Wendian1838 Sorb1843 Sorabian1851 1843    Penny Cycl. XXVI. 206/1  				Sorbes or Sorabes, between the rivers Saale and Elbe. 1883    W. R. Morfill Slavonic Lit. x. 248  				The term is still applied to the Sorbs and the Slovenes. 1886    Encycl. Brit. XXI. 353/1  				The Sorbs had been reduced to a condition of miserable serfdom.  2.  The language spoken by this race. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > 			[noun]		 > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Lechitic > Sorbian Wendish1617 Wendic1848 Sorabian1851 Sorb1862 Lusatian1877 Sorbian1877 Sorbish1883 1862    R. G. Latham Elements Compar. Philol. 629  				The Sorb, Serb, or Sorabian of Lusatia,..intermediate to the Bohemian and the Polish. 1887    Encycl. Brit. XXII. 147/2  				Thus Chekh, Polish, Lower Sorb, ten; Upper Sorbish, ton. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sorbv. Physical Chemistry.  a.  transitive. To collect by sorption. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes			[verb (transitive)]		 > subject to named chemical reaction or process > collect by sorption sorb1909 1909    J. W. McBain in  London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 18 918  				An idea of the quality of the carbon employed may be obtained from the amount of gas sorbed by it in actual experiment. 1938    Proc. Royal Soc. A. 167 407  				The two zeolites in the form of three-dimensional networks sorb ammonia copiously without ammoniate formation. 1954    P. Alexander  & R. F. Hudson Wool viii. 261  				When wool is immersed in hydrogen peroxide, some is initially sorbed by the amino and imino groups without reaction. 1970    New Scientist 2 July 9/3  				Papers with inked designs sorb best on the inked areas. 1972    Physics 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.  intransitive for passive. ΚΠ 1970    New Scientist 2 July 9/3  				The SO2 sorbs strongly to these sweat patches. Derivatives  sorbed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > 			[adjective]		 > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to sorption > collected by sorbed1909 1909    London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 18 923  				The total amount of sorbed gas is 67·70 c.c. 1975    Nature 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.   ˈsorbing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > 			[adjective]		 > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to sorption > collecting by sorbing1921 1921    Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 119 454  				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. 1946    Nature 5 Oct. 475/1  				Compact, non~porous sorbing media such as wool.   ˈsorbate  n.2				 [after distillate, filtrate, etc.]			 that which is sorbed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > 			[noun]		 > chemical reactions or processes (named) > sorption > that which is sorbed sorbate1928 1928    London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 7th Ser. 5 749  				A revised conception of the mutual relations of sorbent and sorbate in cases where the ‘power’ time-equation holds. 1949    Discussions Faraday Soc. VII. 136  				Gmelinite and chabazite occlude a still greater variety of sorbates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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