absorb

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become absorbed in an activity – to pay complete attention to the sensations and the experiences.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

Get off a stop earlier, make a circuit of the park at lunchtime, walk the child to and from school, get a dog, feel yourself moving in moving air, look, listen, absorb.

That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 absorb heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Left alone, it was assumed, the world's rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Nothing makes me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music.

Lots of people swear they can absorb new information more efficiently at some times of the day than at others.

Research shows that when we absorb information in order to teach it to someone else, we learn it more accurately and deeply, perhaps in part because we are engaging our social cognition.

Absorbed in painting, john didn't notice evening approaching.

But a transparent animal doesn't have pigments, so its tissues won't absorb light.

But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

However, when something did interest me, I could become absorbed.

I don't want to get too absorbed in modeling.

It takes sunscreen about fifteen minutes to start working, and that's plenty of time for your skin to absorb a day's worth of Vitamin D.

Living materials can stop light because they contain pigments that absorb specific colors of light.

Others absorb light, stopping it dead in its tracks.

To become transparent, an animal needs to keep its body from absorbing or scattering light.

We both became absorbed in the simplicity of playing together.

When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.

While watching TV, children do not merely absorb words and images.

But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

Helping forests flourish as valuable "carbon sinks" long into the future may require reducing their capacity to absorb carbon now.

The climate change we are hastening could one day leave us with forests that emit more carbon than they absorb.