absorb

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.

   “Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.”

2. fiil To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.

   “to be absorpt, or swallowed up, in a lake of fire and brimstone.”

3. fiil To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
4. fiil To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.

   “The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.”

5. fiil To take in energy and convert it.

   “Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.”

6. fiil in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
7. fiil in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
8. fiil taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
9. fiil To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.

   “Livonian affairs held him tight, and were to absorb him for many a year.”

10. fiil To occupy or consume time.
11. fiil To assimilate mentally.

    “If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.”

12. fiil To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.

    “Among the most debatable is the contention that the profit margins of small employers are insufficient to absorb the costs of health insurance”

13. fiil To defray the costs.

    “I’ll absorb the charge for the window replacement.”

14. fiil To accept or purchase in quantity.