Sponge

[spʌn(d)ʒ] or [spʌndʒ]

解釋/意思:

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

(noun.) 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.

(verb.) gather sponges, in the ocean.

(verb.) wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten.

(verb.) soak up with a sponge.

(verb.) erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard.

手打:梅尔瓦--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.

(n.) Any spongelike substance.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.

(n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.

(v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.

(v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.

(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.

(v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.

(v. i.) To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.

(v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.

(v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Wipe (with a sponge), cleanse.[2]. Dampen, wet.

乔琳整理

解釋/意思:

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.

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