Sorb vs Orb - What's the difference?
sorb | orb |
The wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis ) of Europe.
The rowan tree.
The fruit of either of these trees.
(chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.
* 1971 , E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity'', National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, ''Radioactivity in the marine environment ,
* 2005 , J. E. Barbash, The Geochemistry of Pesticides'', Barbara Sherwood Lollar (editor), ''Treatise on Geochemistry 9: Environmental Geochemistry , Second Edition,
* 2007 , Danny D. Reible, Chapter 21: Contaminant Processes in Sediments'', Marcelo H. García (editor), ''Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Management, Modeling, and Practice ,
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
(rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
(poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical
(poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel
(rare) A sphere of action.
A globus cruciger
A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography
(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
(poetic) to form into an orb or circle
(poetic) to encircle; to surround; to enclose
* Addison
(poetic) to become round like an orb
As nouns the difference between sorb and orb
is that sorb is the wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis) of Europe while orb is a spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.As verbs the difference between sorb and orb
is that sorb is to absorb or adsorb while orb is to form into an orb or circle.As an initialism ORB is
initialism of Object Request Broker|lang=en.sorb
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* sorb-appleVerb
(en verb)page 148,
- In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).
page 548,
- The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.
page 966,
- The quantity sorbed is often found to be well represented by the combination of a compartment exhibiting linear, reversible sorption and a compartment that exhibits nonlinear and thermodynamic irreversib[l]e sorption.
Derived terms
* sorbed phaseAnagrams
* * * ----orb
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) orbe, from (etyl) . Compare orbit .Noun
(en noun)- In the small orb of one particular tear. --
- Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --
- The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon
- You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --
- In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --
- (John Milton)
- A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --
- The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --
- (William Wordsworth)
- But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --
Verb
(en verb)- (Lowell)
- (Milton)
- The wheels were orbed with gold.