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US
/ˈspəndʒ/
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[ UK /spˈʌndʒ/ ]
[ UK /spˈʌndʒ/ ]
VERB
- gather sponges, in the ocean
- erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- soak up with a sponge
- wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
NOUN
- primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
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someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge - 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
- a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
How To Use sponge In A Sentence
- We were like sponges; we absorbed knowledge eagerly after the ten-year void.
- I dont know what these people keep talking about I bought sham wow and it SUCKS it just pushed the liquid around and did NOT absorb it at all, its a piece of crap use real car shammies, paper towels, sponges, or regular dishrags and you'd get way better results. Undefined
- Mosely constructed a level three Menger sponge—in other words, a sponge after three iterations of cube removal figure F. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
- Have a cool shower bath or a sponge bath when the temperature is high.
- CJD results in the brain literally being turned into sponge-like, hole-filled tissue (the reason the disease is also known as spongiform encephalopathy). Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
- The vagina and its neighbors, including the following: vagina, hymen, urethral sponge, fornix (part of the vagina), cervix, os (part of the cervix), and pubococcygeus (PC) muscle. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
- Marine sponges are an essential and highly diverse component of marine benthic communities, ranging from the euryhaline estuarine, to intertidal, to the deep-sea.
- Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
- And we have studies looking at organisms from sponges to sharks, looking at the food chain, both on the bottom of the ocean and also on the extreme layer of - a very thin layer called the neuston, the very surface of the ocean. Assessing The BP Spill's Impact
- In budding, aggregates of cells differentiate into small sponges that are released superficially or expelled through the oscula.
