SORBENT Synonyms

• having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface

• a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance

• absorbent paper used to dry ink

• the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station

• a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)

• cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

• to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

• make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

• a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

• someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

• wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

• soak up with a sponge

• gather sponges, in the ocean

• a workman employed to collect sponges

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)

• a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption