What is the meaning of ABSORB. Phrases containing ABSORB
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Time−bomb is slang for an illicit drug taken orally, wrapped in paper or pastry so that it is absorbed later.
Absorb is slang for to drink. Absorb is slang for to eat.
Someone who takes a lot of insults ("crap,") is the butt of jokes, etc. Suggests that they absorb them, but don't complain too much; "He is the sponge of the group."
A witty expression to absorb or digest information or food
(bull bar) steel bumper bar for absorbing impact
medza/medzer/medzes/medzies/metzes/midzers
money. Other variations occur, including the misunderstanding of these to be 'measures', which has become slang for money in its own right. These slang words for money are most likely derived from the older use of the word madza, absorbed into English from Italian mezzo meaning half, which was used as a prefix in referring to half-units of coinage (and weights), notably medza caroon (half-crown), madza poona (half-sovereign) and by itself, medza meaning a ha'penny (½d). Potentially confused with and supported by the origins and use of similar motsa (see motsa entry).
n shock absorber. The part of a vehicleÂ’s suspension system that stops the suspension from bouncing (rather than actually absorbing any shock).
n 1. a. An hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug: an acid trip. b. An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience: a power trip. 2. a. A usually temporary but absorbing interest or preoccupation: He's on another health food trip. b. A certain way of life or situation
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n.
One who, or that which, absorbs.
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A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
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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.
v. t.
To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
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That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
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Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
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One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.
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A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.
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One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.
v. t.
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
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To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
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Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.
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Capable of absorbing or dissolving to a greater degree; as, an unsaturated solution.
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Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
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Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.
v. t.
To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
n.
The state or quality of being absorbable.
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Anything which absorbs.
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