sponge
1. 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 (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms:
spongy
• Hypernyms:
absorbent material, absorbent
2. someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
- she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge
• Syn:
quick study
• Hypernyms:
learner, scholar, assimilator
3. primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework;
usually occurs in sessile colonies
• Syn:
poriferan, parazoan
• Derivationally related forms:
spongy
• Hypernyms:
invertebrate
• Hyponyms:
glass sponge
• Member Holonyms:
Porifera, phylum Porifera
4. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
• Syn:
leech, parasite, sponger
• Derivationally related forms:
sponge (for: sponger), parasitic (for: parasite), parasitical (for: parasite)
• Hypernyms:
follower
1. wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
wipe, pass over
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. ask for and get free;
be a parasite
• Syn:
mooch, bum, cadge, grub
• Derivationally related forms:
sponger, cadger (for: cadge), bum (for: bum), moocher (for: mooch)
• Hypernyms:
obtain
• Hyponyms:
freeload
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
3. erase with a sponge;
as of words on a blackboard
• Hypernyms:
erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. soak up with a sponge
• Hypernyms:
wipe up, mop up, mop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. gather sponges, in the ocean
• Derivationally related forms:
sponger
• Hypernyms:
gather, garner, collect, pull together
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- In the summer they like to go out and sponge
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