different between permeable vs spongy
permeable
English
Etymology
From Middle French perméable, from Latin perme?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??(?)mi?b?l/
Adjective
permeable (comparative more permeable, superlative most permeable)
- absorbing or allowing the passage of fluids
- Synonym: water-permeable
- Antonym: impermeable
Related terms
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin perme?bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /p??.me?a.bl?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /p?r.me?a.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /pe?.me?a.ble/
Adjective
permeable (masculine and feminine plural permeables)
- permeable
- Antonym: impermeable
Related terms
- permeabilitat
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin perme?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe?me?able/, [pe?.me?a.??le]
Adjective
permeable (plural permeables)
- permeable
- Antonym: impermeable
Related terms
- permeabilidad
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spongy
English
Alternative forms
- spongey
Etymology
sponge +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?nd?i/
Adjective
spongy (comparative spongier, superlative spongiest)
- Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 2,[1]
- Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I
- As far as toucheth my particular,
- Yet, dread Priam,
- There is no lady of more softer bowels,
- More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,
- More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?'
- Than Hector is:
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, Volume 2, Chapter 28, p. 246,[2]
- […] there were times when she would lie looking at her, with such a still, watchful, almost dangerous expression, that Helen would sigh, and change her place, as persons do whose breath some cunning orator had been sucking out of them with his spongy eloquence, so that, when he stops, they must get some air and stir about, or they feel as if they should be half-smothered and palsied.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 2,[1]
- Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1,[3]
- Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
- Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
- 1633, John Donne, “The Indifferent” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 200,[4]
- Her who still weepes with spungie eyes,
- And her who is dry corke, and never cries;
- I can love her, and her, and you and you,
- I can love any, so she be not true.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 3,[5]
- […] I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw Yarmouth. It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river […]
- 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, 1968, p. 21,[6]
- It rains […] most of the fall and winter and much of the spring. It’s a spongy sky you’ll be wearing on your head.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1,[3]
- (slang) Drunk.
Synonyms
- (characteristics of a sponge): spongelike
- (soaked and soft): See Thesaurus:wet
- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
Derived terms
- spongily
- sponginess
- spongy lead
- spongy platinum
Translations
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