Definitions for SPONGE
spʌndʒsponge

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spongenoun

   a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

2. quick study, spongenoun

   someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

   "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

3. leech, parasite, sponge, spongernoun

   a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

4. sponge, poriferan, parazoanverb

   primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

5. spongeverb

   wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

6. mooch, bum, cadge, grub, spongeverb

   ask for and get free; be a parasite

7. spongeverb

   erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

8. spongeverb

   soak up with a sponge

9. spongeverb

   gather sponges, in the ocean

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. spongenoun

   Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.

2. spongenoun

   A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).

3. spongenoun

   A porous material such as sponges consist of.

4. spongenoun

   A heavy drinker.

5. spongenoun

   A type of light cake; sponge cake.

6. spongenoun

   A type of steamed pudding.

7. spongenoun

   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).

8. spongenoun

   A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.

9. spongeverb

   To take advantage of the kindness of others.

   He has been sponging off his friends for a month now.

10. spongeverb

    To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.

11. Etymology: spunge, from spongia, from σπογγιά, related to σπόγγος.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SPONGEnoun

   A soft porous substance supposed by some the nidus of animals. It is remarkable for sucking up water.

   Etymology: spongia, Latin.

   Sponges are gathered from the sides of rocks, being as a large but tough moss. Francis Bacon.

   They opened and washed part of their sponges. George Sandys.

   Great officers are like sponges: they suck ’till they are full, and, when they come once to be squeezed, their very heart’s blood come away. Roger L'Estrange.

2. To Spongeverb

   To blot; to wipe away as with a sponge.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Except between the words of translation and the mind of Scripture itself there be contradiction, very little difference should not seem an intolerable blemish necessarily to be spunged out. Richard Hooker.

3. To Spongeverb

   To suck in as a sponge; to gain by mean arts.

   The ant lives upon her own honesty; whereas the fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that spunges upon other people’s trenchers. Roger L'Estrange.

   Here wont the dean, when he’s to seek,
   To spunge a breakfast once a week. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sponge

   Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. Sponges have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process. Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and to remove wastes. Sponges were first to branch off the evolutionary tree from the last common ancestor of all animals, making them the sister group of all other animals.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sponge

   A sponge is a porous material primarily used for cleaning or absorbing purposes. It can refer to a variety of objects, including a type of multicellular marine animal that filters nutrients from the water, a type of artificial cleaning tool made from cellulose or other materials, or a light cake or dessert made from flour, sugar, and eggs. The term can also describe an individual who takes or absorbs something generously or excessively.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spongenoun

   any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae

2. Spongenoun

   the elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies

3. Spongenoun

   one who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger

4. Spongenoun

   any spongelike substance

5. Spongenoun

   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

6. Spongenoun

   iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition

7. Spongenoun

   iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked

8. Spongenoun

   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

9. Spongenoun

   the extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel

10. Spongeverb

    to cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth

11. Spongeverb

    to wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of

12. Spongeverb

    fig.: To deprive of something by imposition

13. Spongeverb

    fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast

14. Spongeverb

    to suck in, or imbile, as a sponge

15. Spongeverb

    fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor

16. Spongeverb

    to be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven

17. Etymology: [OF. esponge, F. ponge, L. spongia, Gr. spoggia`, spo`ggos. Cf. Fungus, Spunk.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sponge

   Sponge is an alternative rock band from Detroit, Michigan formed in 1991 by Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross, Tim Cross, and Joey Mazzola. All were formerly of the hard rock band Loudhouse. Sponge was signed to Sony Records in 1994 but have since switched to other labels.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sponge

   spunj, n. a fixed, usually marine, animal with pores in the body-wall and without tentacles: the fibrous framework of such, remarkable for its power of sucking up water: any sponge-like substance, as dough before it is kneaded and formed: any cringing hanger-on or parasite, a drunken fellow: an instrument for cleaning cannon after a discharge: the heel of a horse's shoe.—v.t. to wipe with a sponge: to wipe out, absorb up, with a sponge: to wipe out completely: to destroy.—v.i. to suck in, as a sponge: to gain by mean tricks, to live on others by some mean subterfuge or other.—ns. Sponge′cake, a very light sweet cake of flour, eggs, and sugar; Sponge′let, a little sponge.—adjs. Sponge′ous, Spon′giōse, Spongiolit′ic.—n. Spong′er, one who uses a sponge: a person or vessel engaged in fishing for sponges: an apparatus for sponging cloth by means of a perforated adjustable cylinder: a sponge or parasite.—adjs. Spongic′olous, inhabiting sponges; Spong′iform, resembling a sponge: porous.—ns. Spong′iness, porous quality; Spong′ing-house, a bailiff's lodging-house for debtors in his custody before their committal to prison; Spon′giōle, the spongy tissue of a root-tip; Spon′giolite, a fossil sponge spicule.—adj. Spongoid (spong′goid).—ns. Spongologist (spong-gol′ō-jist), one devoted to the study of sponges; Spongology (spong-gol′ō-ji), the knowledge about sponges.—adj. Spong′y, like a sponge, absorptive: of open texture, porous: wet and soft: drunken.—Set a sponge, to leaven a small mass of dough with which to leaven a large quantity; Throw up the sponge, to acknowledge defeat by throwing into the air the sponge with which a boxer is rubbed down between rounds: to give up any contest. [O. Fr. esponge—L. spongia—Gr. sponggia.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sponge

   [Unix] A special case of a filter that reads its entire input before writing any output; the canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream. If a file system has versioning (as ITS did and VMS does now) the sponge/filter distinction loses its usefulness, because directing filter output would just write a new version. See also slurp.

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sponge

   POWERING SOCIAL COMMUNITIES THAT ANSWER THE WORLDS QUESTIONS….Sponge powers question and answer communities for brands, media outlets, and topical sites. Sponge’s Q&A platform enables online communities to ask questions and share answers in a structured manner.Sponge’s technology unites traditional social features with question-and-answer functionality to foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and customer engagement.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sponge

   See Implements.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sponge

   A type of material and product created and designed in various colors, materials, shapes, sizes and styles.

   Sponges are used to clean and wash the body, used to make a variety of cleaning products, wash a car and for many other purposes.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 28, 2016  

2. ---

   sponge

   Is a type of aquatic organism.

   Sponge are divided into classes mainly according to the composition of their skeleton.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 28, 2016  

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1. sponge

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Matched Categories

1. • Absorbent Material
   • Erase
   • Gather
   • Learner
   • Wipe
   • Wipe Up

How to pronounce SPONGE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of SPONGE in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of SPONGE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of SPONGE in a Sentence

1. Rajveer Purohit:

   It's a unique tissue that's only present in the penis, when you get an erection, blood flows into the corpus cavernosa, and it fills up like a sponge.

2. Cary Colón:

   As long as the softener is diluted with water and the sponge is fully squeezed it will not stain your clothing.

3. Chris Cabrera:

   It’s part of this culture, I think, where everyone’s just looking to get ahead so fast and so furiously that they forget to enjoy the ride, look for inflection points that they can improve their career, be a sponge, find mentors, things like that, we coach them to be patient, and we coach them that they’re winning, and we coach them to be a sponge and look for these inflections points.

4. Simon Allen:

   Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males.

5. Andre Bakhos:

   We are in an environment of mixed signal, inconsistencies and the markets are being driven by a lack of a positive theme, troubles in European banks and weak oil prices, we've been setting up for squeezing of the sponge. It's time to take some profits from the markets.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=SPONGE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sponge
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=SPONGE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SPONGE
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=SPONGE
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=SPONGE
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Sponge
10. ^ CrunchBase
    https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sponge
11. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html