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sponge
English
Etymology
From Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (spongiá), related to ??????? (spóngos).
Pronunciation
- enPR: sp?nj, IPA(key): /sp?nd??/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Noun
sponge (countable and uncountable, plural sponges)
- (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
- Synonyms: sea sponge, bath sponge, poriferan, porifer
- (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
- Synonym: bath sponge
- (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
- (informal) A heavy drinker.
- Synonyms: souse, swill-pot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard
- (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.
- Synonym: sponge cake
- (countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed pudding.
- Synonym: sponge pudding
- (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
- Synonyms: freeloader, sponger; see also Thesaurus:scrounger
- (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
- Any sponge-like substance.
- (baking) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
- Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
- Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
- A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
- The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
- (slang) A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ????? (spañj)
- ? Japanese: ???? (suponji)
- ? Korean: ??? (seupeonji)
- ? Pashto: ????? (spanj)
- ? Welsh: spynj
Translations
See also
- foam
Verb
sponge (third-person singular simple present sponges, present participle sponging, simple past and past participle sponged)
- (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
- (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
- Synonym: blag
- July 17 1735, Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Ornery
- I am an utter stranger to the persons and places, except when half a score come to sponge on me every Sunday evening
- (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money?
- To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
- To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
- To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- Lett the eyes which have looked on Idols, sponge out their unlawfull acts
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- (marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
Translations
Further reading
- sponge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- pengos, peng?s
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ascon
English
Noun
ascon (plural ascons)
- (biology) A cavity, in the form of a bag or tube, lined with choanocytes, that forms the structure of sponges
Derived terms
- asconoid
Anagrams
- Canso, Cason, Coans, Oscan, canso, scano
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