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Sorb vs Sorr - What's the difference?

sorb | sorr |

As nouns the difference between sorb and sorr

is that sorb is a member of a slavic people living in lusatia in eastern germany while sorr is (irish|eye dialect) sir.

sorb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis ) of Europe.
  • The rowan tree.
  • The fruit of either of these trees.

    • Derived terms

    * sorb-apple

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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 , 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   • In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).
  • * 2005 , J. E. Barbash, The Geochemistry of Pesticides'', Barbara Sherwood Lollar (editor), ''Treatise on Geochemistry 9: Environmental Geochemistry , Second Edition, page 548,
    • The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.
  • * 2007 , Danny D. Reible, Chapter 21: Contaminant Processes in Sediments'', Marcelo H. García (editor), ''Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Management, Modeling, and Practice , 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 phase

    Related terms

    * sorption

    Anagrams

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    sorr

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Irish, eye dialect) sir
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=William Hope Hodgson, title=Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="'I tell ye, sorr ,' he told him, ''tis of no use at all, thryin' ter reclaim ther castle. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart), title=Action Front, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No, sorr --yes, sorr," said Clancy hurriedly, and then more slowly, in neat adoption of the remarks he had just heard: "Leastways, sorr, I was just afther wondering if you had heard anything of this tale of a German Gineral lying out there on the ground beyanst." " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1888, author=William Henry Hurlbert, title=Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="A foine day it is, sorr ," said our jarvey as we took our seats on the car. }}