DESORB
Dictionary entry overview: What does desorb mean?
• DESORB (verb)
The verb DESORB has 2 senses:
1. go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed
2. remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed
Familiarity information: DESORB used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DESORB (verb)
Meaning:
Go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "desorb" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the substance was desorbed
Hypernyms (to "desorb" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
"You will not rise to the occasion, you will default to the level of your training" (English proverb)
"A spared body only goes twenty-four hours further that another" (Breton proverb)
"If two thieves quarreled, what was stolen emerges." (Arabic proverb)
"He who lives fast goes straight to his death." (Corsican proverb)
