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Sorbing
- verb - take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Sorbite
- - A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.
Sordine
- - See Damper, and 5th Mute.
Sordini
- noun - a mute for a violin
Sordino
- noun - a mute for a violin
Sorrier
- adjective - bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
- causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
- without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"
Sorrily
- - In a sorry manner; poorly.
Sorties
- noun - (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
Sorting
- verb - an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
- arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
- grouping by class or kind or size
- the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Sortita
- - The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.