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Absorbent vs Shamwow - What's the difference?

absorbent | shamwow |

As nouns the difference between absorbent and shamwow

is that absorbent is anything which absorbs while ShamWow is a brand of absorbent cloth.

As an adjective absorbent

is having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.

absorbent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
    • Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent . That was quite a spill.

    Derived terms

    * absorbent ground * nonabsorbent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything which absorbs.
  • * 1839 , , 1972, Forgotten Books, page 225,
    • In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year is low.
  • (physiology, pluralized, now, rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
  • (medicine) 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.
  • (chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

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    shamwow

    English

    Noun

  • (trademark) A brand of absorbent cloth
  • * 2009 , John C Bieber, Angels?
    • You might as well buy a couple of ShamWows and least you get your money's worth.
  • * 2010 , Scott Adams, Dilbert comic strip "Use this Shamwow to absorb someone else's soul while you suck on the other end" [http://dilbert.com/strips/?F=1&CharIDs=&ViewType=Full&NoDateRange=0&SingleDate=&Order=s.DateStrip&PerPage=5&x=34&y=22&After=02%2F20%2F2010&Before=02%2F20%2F2010&CharFilter=Any]
  • * 2009 , G. B. Trudeau My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?: The Tweets of Roland Hedley? - Page 25 "From now on, will soak up her briefings like Shamwow"
  • * 2008 , Jeff Zahratka, Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms: An Enlisted Man's Story? - Page 167 'He had sincere ambition, and he would soak up information like a "ShamWOW" sponge.'