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Resorb

Definition: Resorb

Resorb

Verb

1. Undergo resorption.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Resorb

Synonym: reabsorb (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Resorb

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Reception

Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Resorb

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  resorb

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Resorb

Language Translations for "resorb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

резорбирам. (various references)

   

Danish

  

resorbere (to resorb). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

resorberen (absorb, sip, to resorb). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

resorboida (to resorb), imeä itseensä (to resorb). (various references)

   

French

  

résorber (reduce, to resorb). (various references)

   

German

  

resorbieren (reabsorb, to resorb), aufsaugen (absorb, imbibe, intake, sip, soak up, suck in, take up, to absorb, to resorb, vacuum up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

riassorbire (reabsorb, to resorb). (various references)

   

Manx

  

aahoo (reabsorb). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esorbray

   

Portuguese

  

reabsorver (to resorb). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reabsorber (reabsorb, to resorb). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

resorbera (to resorb). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden emmek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Resorb

Derivations

Words beginning with "resorb": resorbed, resorbing, resorbs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Resorb

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: borers.

Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-r-s"

-1 letter: borer, bores, brose, robes, sober, sorer.

-2 letters: bore, bros, eros, errs, obes, orbs, ores, rebs, robe, robs, roes, rose, sorb, sore.

-3 letters: bos, bro, brr, err, ers, obe, oes, orb, ore, ors, ose, reb, res, rob, roe, ser, sob.

-4 letters: be, bo, er, es, oe, or, os, re, so.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: arbores, borders, brokers, browser, probers, rebores, resorbs, robbers, soberer.

 

+2 letters: aborters, absorber, adsorber, boarders, bordures, bourrees, braceros, broiders, broilers, bronzers, brooders, brothers, browsers, disrober, enrobers, forbears, laborers, obscurer, observer, orbiters, proverbs, reabsorb, reboards, reprobes, resorbed, robuster, sombrero, suborder, suborner, taborers.

 

+3 letters: abhorrers, absorbers, adsorbers, arboreous, arborizes, barretors, beworries, bolsterer, borderers, borrowers, bourrides, bourtrees, broachers, brochures, burrowers, burrstone, crossbred, disrobers, drawbores, emborders, forebears, harborers, horribles, labourers, observers, obtruders, overbears, overburns, proscribe, reabsorbs, reobserve, resorbing, robberies, robotries, seborrhea, shorebird, slobberer, snowberry, soapberry, sombreros, suborders, suborners, tabourers, throbbers, troublers, wardrobes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Resorb


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 73 6F 72 62

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ...    ---    .-.    -...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01110010 01100010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#115 &#111 &#114 &#98

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0073 006F 0072 0062

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527185818468

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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