ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ABSORB
Via Old French from Latin absorbēre to suck, swallow, from ab-1 + sorbēre to suck.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ABSORB
PRESENT
Present
I absorb
you absorb
he/she/it absorbs
we absorb
you absorb
they absorb
Present continuous
I am absorbing
you are absorbing
he/she/it is absorbing
we are absorbing
you are absorbing
they are absorbing
Present perfect
I have absorbed
you have absorbed
he/she/it has absorbed
we have absorbed
you have absorbed
they have absorbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been absorbing
you have been absorbing
he/she/it has been absorbing
we have been absorbing
you have been absorbing
they have been absorbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I absorbed
you absorbed
he/she/it absorbed
we absorbed
you absorbed
they absorbed
Past continuous
I was absorbing
you were absorbing
he/she/it was absorbing
we were absorbing
you were absorbing
they were absorbing
Past perfect
I had absorbed
you had absorbed
he/she/it had absorbed
we had absorbed
you had absorbed
they had absorbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been absorbing
you had been absorbing
he/she/it had been absorbing
we had been absorbing
you had been absorbing
they had been absorbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will absorb
you will absorb
he/she/it will absorb
we will absorb
you will absorb
they will absorb
Future continuous
I will be absorbing
you will be absorbing
he/she/it will be absorbing
we will be absorbing
you will be absorbing
they will be absorbing
Future perfect
I will have absorbed
you will have absorbed
he/she/it will have absorbed
we will have absorbed
you will have absorbed
they will have absorbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been absorbing
you will have been absorbing
he/she/it will have been absorbing
we will have been absorbing
you will have been absorbing
they will have been absorbing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would absorb
you would absorb
he/she/it would absorb
we would absorb
you would absorb
they would absorb
Conditional continuous
I would be absorbing
you would be absorbing
he/she/it would be absorbing
we would be absorbing
you would be absorbing
they would be absorbing
Conditional perfect
I would have absorb
you would have absorb
he/she/it would have absorb
we would have absorb
you would have absorb
they would have absorb
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been absorbing
you would have been absorbing
he/she/it would have been absorbing
we would have been absorbing
you would have been absorbing
they would have been absorbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you absorb
we let´s absorb
you absorb
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
absorbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 QUOTES WITH «ABSORB»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
absorb.
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.
This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABSORB»
Discover the use of
absorb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
absorb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to
Absorb Disturbance ...
The book begins with an overview and introduction to resilience thinking and then takes the reader through the process of describing systems, assessing their resilience, and intervening as appropriate.
Brian Walker, David Salt, 2012
2
Infrared Spectral Interpretation: A Systematic Approach
Absorb. Infrared. Radiation. A. The. First. Necessary. Condition. for. Infrared.
Absorption. Earlier in this chapter. it was mentioned that one of the constituents of
light is the electric vector. The electric vector interacts with matter to produce ...
Chapter 2 Absorb-type activities Presentations, demonstrations, stories, and field
trips Absorb activities inform and inspire. Absorb activities enable motivated
learners to obtain crucial, up-to-date information they need to do their jobs or to ...
BRITISH chemists at Leeds University are boasting of a breakthrough in the
search for dyes that absorb infrared (IR). The dyes are vital to newly developing
technologies for lasers and data storage. The military are also interested,
because the ...
5
Is the Temperature Rising?: The Uncertain Science of Global ...
In the nineteenth century, the German physicist Gustav Kirchoff discovered that
gases absorb the same colors that they emit. When light with a continuous
spectrum — light from a white hot body, for example — is passed through a
heated gas, ...
S. George Philander, 1998
6
Handbook of Swarm Intelligence: Concepts, Principles and ...
Sphere (0) Rosenbrock (0) Ackley (0) Griewank (0) Absorb-S 6.069e-06±1.175e-
07 191.06±8.785 1.3959±0.11837 2.765e-03±7.761e-04 Random-S 6.078e-06±
1.2964e-07 195.45±8.2053 1.7332±0.10218 3.751e-03±7.749e-04 Infinity-S ...
Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Yuhui Shi, Meng-Hiot Lim, 2011
7
Advances in Ecological Research
strongly constrained by low temperature, preferentially absorb and grow on
amino acids, whereas barley preferentially absorbs inorganic nitrogen (Chapin et
al., 1993; Kielland, 1994; Raab et al., 1996). Spruce, which also grows on acid
soils, ...
8
Climate Change and the Emergence of Civilization: Global ...
The more energy a CO2 molecule has, the less extra energy it can gain (absorb),
up to the point where it is saturated. If this were not the case, then we could build
huge glass enclosures and fill them with CO2 and water vapor to collect great ...
That plants with their roots when immersed into a solution of sulphate of copper,
totally absorb the salt, convert it into proto- sulphate, and die quickly. 2nd. That
acetate of copper produces the same effects, the salt absorbed becoming ...
10
A Change in the Weather
Clouds reflect and absorb the heat that is radiated from the surface and they
reradiate some of the heat they absorb. This is how they warm the air below the
cloud. Incoming solar radiation is predominantly at short wavelengths, but
outgoing ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABSORB»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
absorb is used in the context of the following news items.
Kodiaks absorb fifth straight defeat, tied for last place
WATERLOO — A Major Series Lacrosse season that began with such promise instead could be destined for the scrap heap. «Waterloo Record, Jul 15»
Fitch holds rating on RBS, says bank has cushion to absorb further …
Ratings agency Fitch Ratings held a 'BBB+' rating on Royal Bank of Scotland amid unexpected revelations it faced a $13bn payout to settle a ... «DIGITALLOOK, Jul 15»
We have enough buffers to absorb Greek shock: Rajan
Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Raghuram Rajan, on Thursday, indicated that India's growth story would be better than other ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Learning Management Software Company, Absorb Technology …
CALGARY, July 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - Absorb Technology officially opened the doors to their European Headquarters on July 1, 2015. «Virtual-Strategy Magazine, Jul 15»
Happy Canada Day as Absorb brings 12 jobs to Dublin
Absorb Technology Ltd, a European subsidiary of Blatant Media Corporation, is creating a dozen new jobs as it sets up a European operations ... «Siliconrepublic.com, Jul 15»
La compañía de software de gestión de aprendizaje, Absorb …
Absorb Technology abrió oficialmente las puertas a su sede europea el 1 de julio de 2015. La demanda para un mejor sistema de gestión del ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
Chiefs second-year quarterback Aaron Murray ready to absorb pro …
Aaron Murray went from the big name on the University of Georgia campus in Athens to a backup with the Kansas City Chiefs. Heading into his ... «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
Memo: KC Star will dissolve, absorb business desk
The Kansas City Star plans to dismantle its business desk and move those reporters into other areas of a completely reorganized newsroom, ... «Kansas City Business Journal, Jul 15»
Absorb LMS
Absorb LMS caters to the corporate mid-market. While businesses with 2,000 or fewer employees comprise the majority of its customers, the ... «PC Magazine, Jun 15»
Why markets can absorb a Greece shock
The Greek debt drama may be roiling securities minute to minute, but in the big picture, markets are resilient enough to absorb a shock, Michael ... «CNBC, Jun 15»
