different between sponge vs diaper

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)

1. (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

2. (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).

   Synonym: bath sponge
3. (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
4. (informal) A heavy drinker.

   Synonyms: souse, swill-pot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

5. (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.

   Synonym: sponge cake

6. (countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed pudding.

   Synonym: sponge pudding

7. (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

8. (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
9. Any sponge-like substance.
   1. (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.
   2. Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
   3. Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
10. 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.
11. The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
12. (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)

1. (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.

2. (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

3. (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.

   • How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money?

4. To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
5. To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
6. 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

7. (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
8. (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

English

Etymology

From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek ???????? (díaspros, adj), from ???- (dia-, “across”) + ?????? (áspros, “white”). Doublet of jasper.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?da?(?)p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?(?)p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(?), -a??p?(?)
• Hyphenation: di?a?per, dia?per

Noun

diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)

1. A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
2. A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
3. (Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
4. The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
5. Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

Synonyms

• (absorbent garment): nappy (British, Australia); napkin (British, archaic); napkin (South African)

Derived terms

• diaperhood
• diaperism
• diaperwork
• incontinence diaper

Translations

Verb

diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)

1. To put diapers on someone.
   • 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles

     I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that. And she whispers in my ear that "baby wants to make a cummie in his Diapers […]

   Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.

2. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman

     If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.

Translations

Anagrams

• Piedra, aperid, paired, pardie, piedra, repaid

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dyapre.

Noun

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyaper

Etymology 2

From Old French diaprer.

Verb

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyapren