SOAKING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soaking up mean? 

• SOAKING UP (noun)
  The noun SOAKING UP has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid

  Familiarity information: SOAKING UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOAKING UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

absorption; soaking up

Hypernyms ("soaking up" is a kind of...):

sorption (the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption))

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soaking up"):

imbibition ((chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel)

 Context examples 

Protecting marine life could help the oceans to function better, soaking up more carbon and providing barriers against sea level rises and storm surges, in the form of coral reefs and mangrove swamps.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)