Simplified Chinese Meaning of sponges

海绵

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Definitions and Meaning of sponges in English

sponges

a metal (such as platinum) obtained in porous form usually by reduction without fusion, a piece of sponge (as for scrubbing), to dive or dredge for sponges, a small pad made of multiple folds of gauze or of cotton and gauze used to mop blood from a surgical incision, to carry inhalant medicaments to the nose, or to cover a superficial wound as a dressing, to erase or destroy with or as if with a sponge, a whipped dessert usually containing egg whites, to clean or wipe with or as if with a sponge, a whipped dessert usually containing whites of eggs or gelatin, any of the phylum of primitive mostly marine animals that are the source of natural sponges, have a body of loosely connected cells with a skeleton supported by spicules or flexible fibers, and are filter feeders that live permanently attached to a solid surface as adults, to absorb with or as if with or in the manner of a sponge, one who lives on others, a pad (as of folded gauze) used in surgery and medicine (as to remove discharge), the egg mass of a crab, a soft mixture of yeast, liquid, and flour that is allowed to rise and then mixed with additional ingredients to create bread dough, an elastic porous mass of interlacing horny fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals (phylum Porifera) and is able when wetted to absorb liquid, to get something or live at the expense of another, any of a phylum (Porifera) of aquatic chiefly marine simple invertebrate animals that have a double-walled body of loosely aggregated cells with a skeleton supported by spicules or spongin and are filter feeders that are sessile as adults, a porous rubber or cellulose product used similarly to a sponge, an absorbent contraceptive device impregnated with spermicide that is inserted into the vagina before sexual intercourse to cover the cervix and act as a barrier to sperm, to get something from or live on another by imposing on hospitality or good nature, an elastic porous mass of interlacing horny fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals (phylum Porifera) and is able when wetted to absorb water, to get by sponging on another, a porous dressing (as of fibrin or gelatin) applied to promote wound healing, to cleanse, wipe, or moisten with or as if with a sponge, a pad (as of folded gauze) used in surgery and medicine (as to soak up fluids or apply medicine), to absorb with or like a sponge, to absorb, soak up, or imbibe like a sponge, a piece of this material or of a natural or synthetic product with similar properties used especially for cleaning, a springy mass of fibers and spicules that forms the skeleton of a group of aquatic animals and is able to absorb water freely, raised dough (as for yeast bread), an absorbent contraceptive device that is impregnated with spermicide and inserted into the vagina before sexual intercourse to cover the cervix, a plastic prosthesis used in chest cavities following lung surgery

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海绵

a metal (such as platinum) obtained in porous form usually by reduction without fusion, a piece of sponge (as for scrubbing), to dive or dredge for sponges, a s

寄生虫,受抚养人,搭便车的人,蹭饭者,闲杂人等,爪牙,水蛭,蹭吃蹭喝的人,海绵,血族生物

恩人,支持者,慈善家

spongers => 海绵, sponged => 起海绵作用的, spoliator => 抢劫者, spoliations => 掠夺, spoliating => 掠夺,