What does sponge mean?
Definitions for sponge
spʌndʒsponge
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sponge.
Princeton's WordNet
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
quick study, spongenoun
someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
"she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"
leech, parasite, sponge, spongernoun
a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
sponge, poriferan, parazoanverb
primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
spongeverb
wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
mooch, bum, cadge, grub, spongeverb
ask for and get free; be a parasite
spongeverb
erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
spongeverb
soak up with a sponge
spongeverb
gather sponges, in the ocean
Wiktionary
spongenoun
Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
spongenoun
A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
spongenoun
A porous material such as sponges consist of.
spongenoun
A heavy drinker.
spongenoun
A type of light cake; sponge cake.
spongenoun
A type of steamed pudding.
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).
spongenoun
A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
spongeverb
To take advantage of the kindness of others.
He has been sponging off his friends for a month now.
spongeverb
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
Etymology: spunge, from spongia, from σπογγιά, related to σπόγγος.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
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.
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.
Wikipedia
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.
Webster Dictionary
Spongenoun
any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae
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
Spongenoun
one who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger
Spongenoun
any spongelike substance
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
Spongenoun
iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition
Spongenoun
iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked
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
Spongenoun
the extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel
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
Spongeverb
to wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of
Spongeverb
fig.: To deprive of something by imposition
Spongeverb
fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast
Spongeverb
to suck in, or imbile, as a sponge
Spongeverb
fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor
Spongeverb
to be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven
Etymology: [OF. esponge, F. ponge, L. spongia, Gr. spoggia`, spo`ggos. Cf. Fungus, Spunk.]
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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 Dictionary
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.
CrunchBase
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 Gazetteer
sponge
See Implements.
Editors Contribution
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
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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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sponge in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sponge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of sponge in a Sentence
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.
Hes a sponge, he picks it up. He sees how people are playing him and guarding him and he makes the right play every time. Thats whats great about him he doesnt force anything. Everything is going to be the right play. Hes going to make the right reads. Hes like a quarterback out there.
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.
As long as the softener is diluted with water and the sponge is fully squeezed it will not stain your clothing.
Raw meat carries bacteria and then if you throw it on the cutting board and use a towel or sponge to dry that off, it could pick that up, cutting boards and table tops used for food prep are of concern and need to be cleaned regularly and dried.
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- سفنج, اسفنجArabic
- сюнгер, гъбаBulgarian
- esponja, esponjarCatalan, Valencian
- mořská houba, houbovec, houbaCzech
- svampDanish
- Schnorrer, Schwamm, schnorrenGerman
- σφογγίζω, σφουγγάριGreek
- spongoEsperanto
- gorrón, cafichear, cafiche, gorronear, esponjaSpanish
- pesukäsn, käsnEstonian
- اسفنجPersian
- puhdistaa, pesusieni, sieni, siipeillä, sienieläin, siipeilijäFinnish
- éponge, éponger, soulard, ivrogneFrench
- esponxaGalician
- ספוג, ספגHebrew
- szivacs, szivacsanyagHungarian
- սպունգArmenian
- sponsIndonesian
- svampurIcelandic
- spugnaItalian
- 海綿, スポンジJapanese
- საწურიGeorgian
- 갯솜, 해면, 스펀지Korean
- spongiaLatin
- durlė, kempinė, pintisLithuanian
- sūklisLatvian
- kōtare, pūngorungoru, kōpūpūtai, kōtaretare, kaipaoke, muremure, kaimātaiMāori
- сунѓерMacedonian
- sponsDutch
- svampNorwegian
- tó yitsʼǫǫsí, táłtłʼááh yilcháazhiiNavajo, Navaho
- gąbkaPolish
- سپنجPashto, Pushto
- esponjaPortuguese
- spongie, bureteRomanian
- мочалка, губкаRussian
- сунђер, spužva, sunđer, спужваSerbo-Croatian
- snylta, svampSwedish
- స్పాంజిTelugu
- süngerTurkish
- губкаUkrainian
- اسفنجUrdu
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