(v. t.) To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
(v. t.) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
(v. t.) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
(v. t.) To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
(3) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(4) Absorbance or fluorescence measurements may be used for detection.
(5) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
(6) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
(7) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
(8) The drug-picrate chromophores maximally absorb within the first minute of reaction (21 s for phenacemide, 45 s for cephalothin), after which the absorbances decrease.
(9) This implies that these proteins are quantitatively absorbed from the peritoneum without undergoing modifications.
(10) The resulting cortexolone-Sepharose absorbed easily the cytosolic chick thymus glucocorticoid receptor.
(11) The activity of this autoantibody was absorbed by histidine and glutaminic acid.
(12) In these animals, propionate was the major VFA taken up by the liver and approximately 50% of absorbed acetate was also removed by the liver.
(13) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
(14) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(15) This differential absorbance is linear with increasing concentrations of Na2MoO4 and was used to calculate the molar extinction coefficient of molybdochelin at 425 nm (epsilon similar to 6,200).
(16) Although differences were noted between species, the absolute rates of absorption measured indicate that the phthalate esters are slowly absorbed through both human and rat skin.
(17) By determining the solubility of CaTPA, the concentration of TPA that would be required to achieve urinary saturation was calculated, and a conservative estimate of the amount of TPA or DMT that would have to be absorbed in order to induce calculi was derived.
(18) All recombinants were found to be photochemically active, in that optical bleaching produced a temperature- and lipid chain-length-dependent mixture of species absorbing at 480 and 380 nm.
(19) Carotenoids are absorbed and then partially converted to retinol in the enterocytes.
(20) The filler did not absorb water, so the effect of the filler content on the diffusion coefficients of the water sorption was to be associated with of the law of mixture.
Embrace
Definition:
(v. t.) To fasten on, as armor.
(n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
(n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
(n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
(n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.
(n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
(n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
(n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
(v. i.) To join in an embrace.
(n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(2) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(3) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
(4) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
(5) IDCs sometimes embraced or contacted lymphocytes, suggesting their role in the differentiation of the latter cells.
(6) After bone-union the embracing ring device was removed in conjunction with external lotion and active exercises.
(7) Slaven Bilic must show West Ham he is more than a rock star manager | Aleksandar Holiga Read more For Sullivan and co, however, it is a nightmare they are embracing, one which has provided a shot at European football and the opportunity for Bilic to begin with an immediate feelgood run.
(8) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
(9) The indications were initially restrictive but now embrace the quasi-totality of gallstones, complicated or not, and in particular when the patient's general condition is fragile.
(10) At birth, most cochlear neurons displayed peripheral arbors that embraced both inner and outer hair cell receptors.
(11) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(12) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
(13) These processes are structurally stable rearrangements of tissue morphology and are spread in the tissue as a wave embracing more and more cells.
(14) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
(15) Trump, embracing the spirit of the “lock her up” mob chants at his rallies, threatened: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation – there has never been so many lies and so much deception,” he threatened.
(16) It represents a temporary drop in traditionally defined living standards, in exchange for a more equitable and sustainable future – a concept that our grandparents' generation embraced, as they endured rationing but also produced the NHS, social housing and social security.
(17) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
(18) It will highlight the importance of our sport embracing innovation and change as we move forward.
(19) Attempts at such prevention inevitably also embrace prevention of the extraosseous consequences of autonomous hyperparathyroidism, such as the effects of hypercalcaemia, need for parathyroid surgery, and, perhaps, toxic effects of the parathyroid hormone.
(20) For Davutoglu, this ambition entails a "comprehensive" approach embracing enhanced economic, cultural and social ties as well as political and security relations.