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IMBIBITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of consuming liquids
Synonyms:
drinking; imbibing; imbibition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("imbibition" is a kind of...):
consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imbibition"):
gulping; guzzling; swilling (the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly)
potation (the act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink))
Derivation:
imbibe (take in liquids)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("imbibition" is a kind of...):
absorption; soaking up ((chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid)
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)
Derivation:
imbibe (take (gas, light or heat) into a solution)
