Word Finder - sponge

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

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• bath sponge
• porifer
• poriferan
• sea sponge

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A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).

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• bath sponge

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A porous material such as sponges consist of.

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A heavy drinker.

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• souse
• swill-pot

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A type of light cake.

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• sponge cake

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A type of steamed pudding.

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• sponge pudding

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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).

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• freeloader
• sponger

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

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Any sponge-like substance.

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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.

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The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.

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A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.

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To take advantage of the kindness of others.

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

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To get by imposition; to scrounge.

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to sponge a breakfast

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• blag

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To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.

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

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To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.

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

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

The fishing and sponge industries are important.

Cliona, the boring sponge, destroys the shells and so injures the oyster; the boring annelid Leucodore also excavates the shell.

The sponge fisheries are of considerable importance.

The (approximately pure) metallic sponge obtained is washed, made compact by compression, fused in a porcelain crucible in an atmosphere of hydrogen, and cast into sticks.

The waters of the Bahamas swarm with fish; the turtle procured here is particularly fine, and the sponge fishery is of importance.

Generally it is either dried, after being separated from the wash water, by means of common salt, upon a layer of which the moist nitroglycerin is gently run and allowed to drain or filter through, or it is filtered through a mass of dry sponge or similar dry and porous material.

The sea fisheries are not important, with the exception of the sponge fishery, which is under the protection of the administration.

For sponge fishing no accurate statistics are available before 1896; in that year 75 tons of sponges were secured, but there has been considerable diminution since, only 31 tons being obtained in 1902.

Amphibrachium grows in the tissues of a sponge, Euplectella, and protrudes its hydranth into the canal-system of the sponge; and Lar grows on the tubes of the worm Sabella.

Batabano and Caibarien are centres of the sponge fisheries.

Grabbing the scrub sponge, she started cleaning the oven again.

Most of the fishing boats, properly so called, start from the Adriatic coast, the coral boats from the western Mediterranean coast, and the sponge boats from the western Mediterranean and Sicilian coasts.

Since 1885 great attention has been paid to the sponge fisheries of Tripoli, the annual value of which is about £30,000.

The limestones contain Globigerina and other Foraminifera, the siliceous beds are made of Radiolaria, sponge spicules and diatoms, while the red clay closely resembles the red clay of the deepest parts of the oceans.

On passing a current of electricity, of which the volume and pressure are adjusted to the conditions of the electrolyte and electrodes, the anode slowly dissolves, leaving the insoluble impurities in the form of a sponge, if the proportion be considerable, but otherwise as a mud or slime which becomes detached from the anode surface and must be prevented from coming into contact with the cathode.

Jebel el-Akabah is much more barren than Jebel Akhdar, and the desert comes right down to the sea in Marmarica, whose few inhabitants are more concerned with salt-collecting and sponge fishing than with agriculture.

There is also a sponge trade, but the former coral trade is depressed.

A considerable sponge fishery is carried on round the coasts by traders from Smyrna.

The limestones of which they are mostly composed act like a sponge, absorbing the rain-water through their innumerable pores and fissures, and thus storing it up in the interior, afterwards to allow it to well forth in springs at various elevations lower down.

The sponge divers brought up sponges valued at £24,630.

If much carbonaceous matter be present (and this is generally so when iron sponge is used as the precipitant) the crude product is heated to redness in the air; this burns out the carbon, and, at the same time, oxidizes a little of the copper, which must be subsequently reduced.

The scyphistoma of Nausithoe forms a branching network which grows in the sponge Esperella and forms the colonial polypoid organism named by Schulze Spongicola fistularis, by Allman Stephanoscyphus mirabilis.

They hold water like a sponge, but part with it under pressure to fissures by which they are intersected, and, in the case of the Upper Chalk, to ducts following beds of flints.

The sand-hills are not inherently infertile; the soil never bakes, is always receptive of moisture, absorbing water like a sponge and holding it well.

The oldest known Diatoms are represented by some specimens found entangled in the spicules of a Liassic sponge, and identified by Rothpletz as species of the recent genus Pyxidicula.

The wand has a special soft sponge head, designed to host the micro dermabrasion crystal cream and massage your skin.

Let this coat dry well before applying the sponge coat.

To begin sponging, wet the sponge with water and wring it well.

Blot off the excess paint onto a paper towel and then pad the sponge onto the wall a couple of times.

After you run out of paint, dip the sponge in again and repeat until the entire area you want to sponge is covered in the second color.

If you're sponge painting a wall or doing another faux finishing technique, the "primer" step is painting on your base coat of color.

If the lead is therefore rightly proportioned to the standard of alloy, the resulting button will consist of only gold and silver, and these are separated by the operation of parting, which consists in boiling the alloy (after rolling it to a thin plate) in strong nitric acid, which dissolves the silver and leaves the gold as a coherent sponge.

The dessert was an almond sponge studded with dark morello cherries in a sweet almond pastry base.

For very absorbent surfaces dampen the surface down first with a damp cloth or sponge.

A tiny blob on the sponge is enough to do the whole body.

And finally this cake is just an ordinary sponge cake decorated and filled with chocolate gold coins!

Let's just say they cleared up a bit of a mess from a sponge cake in double quick time.

Meals have included creme caramel, sponge puddings, goats liver and curry.

The furniture was made of that nasty laminated chipboard, seemed to soak the water up like a sponge.

They have a scratchy white abrasive side and a normal but quite dense sponge side.

These often form around a nucleus of some sort, which could be a sponge skeleton or other marine detritus.

Use a sponge to gently exfoliate the skin during a shower or bath.

Dip each sponge finger into the coffee mixture and use to line the base of a 1.2 liter shallow serving dish.

It's a very clever variant on the warm chocolate fondant with the molten choc oozing out of the sponge.

Wipe tiles with a damp cloth or sponge to remove excess grout.

He is like a sponge soaking up knowledge, he is always making me feel so humble in his company.

A chocolate sponge was the outer layer, with toffee / butterscotch flavored ice cream in the middle!

For heat rash, sponge baby with cool water, pat her dry, then apply calamine lotion.

Chocolate Fudge Cake White and dark chocolate mousse sandwiched between layers of chocolate sponge cake, then covered in a dark chocolate fudge.

Sponge napkins - The impact of a sponge ball routine with ordinary cocktail napkins.