Helen Fenton

Absorption: Definition and part of speech

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Absorption

  1. n. Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.
  2. n. The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
  3. n. An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
  4. n. In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Absorbent: Definition and part of speech

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Absorbent

  1. n. The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
  2. a. Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
  3. n. Anything which absorbs.
  4. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.