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sponge Meaning in Korean (sponge ์˜์–ด ๋œป)

noun์ŠคํŽ€์ง€
verb์ŠคํŽ€์ง€๋กœ ๋‹ฆ๋‹ค
์œ ์˜์–ด:ํ•ด๋ฉดํก์ˆ˜์ฒด
์ŠคํŽ€์ง€ in English:sponge
IPA:spสŒndส’
Plural: sponges
Quick Answer โ€ข ์š”์•ฝ

sponge์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋œป์€ ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€, ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€๋กœ ๋‹ฆ๋‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (์•ก์ฒด๋ฅผ ํก์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์”ป๊ณ  ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๊ณต์„ฑ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ์กฐ๊ฐ.)

Usage Note: ์ฃผ๋กœ '์ŠคํŽ€์ง€'๋กœ ํ‘œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 'ํ•ด๋ฉด'์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Definitions of Sponge

  1. 1
    noun
    ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€

    A piece of a soft, porous material, typically used for washing or cleaning, or for absorbing liquids.

    ์•ก์ฒด๋ฅผ ํก์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์”ป๊ณ  ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๊ณต์„ฑ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ์กฐ๊ฐ.

  2. 2
    verb
    ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€๋กœ ๋‹ฆ๋‹ค

    To wipe or clean with a sponge, or to absorb liquid with a sponge.

    ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€๋กœ ๋‹ฆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋˜๋Š” ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€๋กœ ์•ก์ฒด๋ฅผ ํก์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋‹ค.

Example Sentences

casual

โ€œShe used a sponge to wipe the spilled milk from the counter.โ€

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ˜๋ฆฐ ์šฐ์œ ๋ฅผ ์‹ฑํฌ๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋‹ฆ์•„๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

casual

โ€œThe dry sponge quickly absorbed all the water.โ€

๋งˆ๋ฅธ ์ŠคํŽ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํก์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Synonyms (์œ ์˜์–ด)

In Korean:

ํ•ด๋ฉดํก์ˆ˜์ฒด

In English:

absorbentpad

Inflected Word Forms

past participlesponged
present participlesponging
agent nounsponger
adjectivespongy

Phrases & Idiomatic Expressions

sponge off someoneidiom

To live at someone else's expense, relying on their generosity.

throw in the spongeidiom

To admit defeat; to give up.

sponge cakecollocation

A light cake made with eggs, sugar, and flour, often used as a base for other desserts.

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