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sponge
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sponge is a tool or cleaning aid consisting of soft, porous material. Sponges are usually used for cleaning impervious surfaces. They are especially good at absorbing water and water-based solutions. Sponges are commonly made from cellulose wood fibers ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sponge , spunge , from Latin spongia "a sponge," also "sea animal from which a sponge comes," from Greek spongia , related to spongos "sponge," of unknown origin. "Probably a loanword from a non-IE language, borrowed independently into Greek, ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch , bum , cadge , grub ] erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard soak up with a sponge gather sponges, in the ocean
Usage examples of sponge.
Then it was on the radiates, echinoderms, acalephes, polypes, entozoons, sponges, and infusoria, that he had for such a long time burned the midnight oil?
I soaked it up like a sponge, listening eagerly to the advice of adoptive parents, their grown children, clinical psychologists, advocates, social workers, and adoption resource professionals.
Mr Adams on the other hand was all agasp and aswim, obliged to be sponged in a hammock under the weatherawnings, and Mrs Homer lost her looks entirely, going yellow and thin.
Mr Puffett, who all this time had remained discreetly withdrawn and was, at the moment, assisting Crutchley to sponge the aspidistra leaves, looked up, and joined in the melody with a powerful roar.
I gave the boat a cleansing with baler and sponge, redded her up after a fashion, and finally moored her off with a shore-line, some twenty yards out on the placid water.
In this the bather stands and applies the water with a sponge from a basin or bowl on a stand placed conveniently near.
He no longer sat motionless behind his desk: like a dancing bear he hopped about between bookcase and blackboard, seized the sponge and effaced the just outlined itineraries of the Goths.
Captain removes the old breeching from, and places and secures the bight of the new one in the jaws of the cascabel, after the gun is sponged.
Polyps, sponges, and cystic entozoa, may also be included among hermaphrodites.
As Zella and I prepped the patient, they went through the Detainment Area, and came back with a small garment-repair kit, a thermal braising tool, and a pile of personal hygiene sponges.
He dropped to his knees and inventoried the canvas bag, which contained everything an astute documentarian ought to have: the Betacam, the Ampex deck, the Nicad battery pack, two extra cassettes, a cardioid mike with sponge wind guard, steno notebook, pens.
Just before they left the paint department she darted back and bought two huge cans of white emulsion, and chose a sponge.
Moving slowly, feeling his muscles unknot, Keefer stripped out of his jumpsuit, turned up the space heater, and sponged off with an everdamp pad.
They were circular disks, two kilometres in diameter when they matured, made from polyp that was foamed like a sponge for buoyancy.
He ate a bowl of triticale mush and chewed up a mineral-rich handful of iodized sponge.