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sponge

sponge
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
    "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

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    sponge
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • 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

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      sponge
      Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • platinaspons
      • primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

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      sponge
      Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • spons
      • primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

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      sponge
      Zelfstandig naamwoord
        • a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

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        to sponge
        Werkwoord
          • gather sponges, in the ocean

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          to sponge
          Werkwoord
            • erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

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            to sponge
            Werkwoord
              • wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

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              to sponge
              Werkwoord
                • soak up with a sponge

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                to sponge
                Werkwoord
                • bedelen, bietsen, schooien, schooieren
                • ask for and get free; be a parasite

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                to sponge
                Werkwoord
                • afbedelen, afschooien
                • ask for and get free; be a parasite

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                Voorbeeldzinnen

                1. A sponge absorbs liquids.
                2. A sponge absorbs water.
                3. Soak this sponge in water.
                4. I saw the sponge in the sink.
                5. Do you use a sponge when you take a bath?
                6. Please sponge the mess up of the table.
                7. Sponge absorbs water so it is convenient for shading water-colours and such.
                8. The brioche is like the bastard child of sponge cake and bread, but its taste is peerless.
                9. The brioche is like the bastard child of sponge cake and bread, but its feeling under the tongue is the best under the heavens.
                10. The boxing match was completely one-sided, one pug was so badly mauled that his manager had to throw in the sponge.
                11. Many people think that sponge cake is difficult to bake, but if you use enough eggs, nothing can really go wrong.
                12. Stamp sponge
                13. Titanium sponge
                14. Acme Sponge & Chamois Co., Inc., USA.
                15. Gases (petroleum), sponge absorber off, fluidised catalytic cracker and gas oil desulphuriser overhead fractionation; Refinery gas