sponge
IPA: spˈʌndʒ
noun
- (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
- (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
- (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
- (informal) A heavy drinker.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.
- (countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed 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).
- A person who readily absorbs ideas.
- (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.
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
- (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
- (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- 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.
- (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.
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Examples of "sponge" in Sentences
- PALCA: So the sponge is something called Discodermia dissoluta.
- But the marine sponge is rare and produces only small quantities of poison.
- The sponge is a one-man stimulus package, not just commercially but morally.
- When the sponge is light add the melted butter, egg, grated lemon rind and corn flour.
- Mosely constructed a level three Menger sponge—in other words, a sponge after three iterations of cube removal figure F.
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