Cleaning
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clean |
Cleaning
(n.) The act of making clean. |
Cleaning
(n.) The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. |
Glass-sponge
(n.) A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera |
Household
(n.) Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. |
Household
(n.) A line of ancestory |
Household
(a.) Belonging to the house and family |
Scrub
(v. t.) To rub hard |
Scrub
(v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush |
Scrub
(n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly |
Scrub
(n.) Something small and mean. |
Scrub
(n.) A worn-out brush. |
Scrub
(n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant |
Scrub
(n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. |
Scrub
(a.) Mean |
Sponge
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae. |
Sponge
(n.) The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies. |
Sponge
(n.) One who lives upon others |
Sponge
(n.) Any spongelike substance. |
Sponge
(n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven. |
Sponge
(n.) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition. |
Sponge
(n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked. |
Sponge
(n.) 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. |
Sponge
(n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel. |
Sponge
(v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge |
Sponge
(v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing |
Sponge
(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition. |
Sponge
(v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost |
Sponge
(v. i.) To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge. |
Sponge
(v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on |
Sponge
(v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven. |
cleaning
cleansing
cleanup | the act of making something clean, he gave his shoes a good cleaning |
scrub
scrubbing
scouring | the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water |
| dry cleaning | the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water |
| sponge bath | you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub |
scrubbird
scrub-bird
scrub bird | small fastunning Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub |
megapode
mound bird
mound-bird
mound builder
scrub fowl | large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs |
sponge
poriferan
parazoan | primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework, usually occurs in sessile colonies |
| sponge genus | a genus of Porifera |
| glass sponge | a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae |
cleaning implement
cleaning device
cleaning equipment | any of a large class of implements used for cleaning |
| cleaning pad | a pad used as a cleaning implement |
home appliance
household appliance | an appliance that does a particular job in the home |
scrub brush
scrubbing brush
scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning |
| scrub plane | a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock |
| sponge cloth | any soft porous fabric (especially in a loose honeycomb weave) |
| sponge mop | a wet mop with a sponge as the absorbent |
toilet bag
sponge bag | a waterproof bag for holding bathrooms items (soap and toothpaste etc.) when you are travelling |
white goods
household linen | drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
| sponge cake | a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening |
Madeira cake
Madeira sponge | a rich sponge cake with close texture, intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine |
Victoria sandwich
Victoria sponge | a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between |
family household
house home
menage | a social unit living together, he moved his family to Virginia, It was a good Christian household, I waited until the whole house was asleep, the teacher asked how many people made up his home |
scrub
chaparral
bush | dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes |
charwoman
char
cleaning woman
cleaning lady
woman | a human female employed to do housework, the char will clean the carpet, I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write |
| head of household | the head of a household or family or tribe |
leech
parasite
sponge
sponger | a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage |
quick study
sponge | someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily, she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge |
| scrub nurse | a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery |
scrub pine
Virginia pine
Jersey pine
Pinus virginiana | common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of |
luffa
dishcloth gourd
sponge gourd
rag gourd
strainer vine | any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits, grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge |
loofah
vegetable sponge
Luffa cylindrica | the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit |
loofa
loofah luffa loufah sponge | the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa, used as a washing sponge or strainer |
scrub beefwood
beefwood Stenocarpus salignus | tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers, yields hard heavy reddish wood |
| scrub oak | any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets |
myrtle oak
seaside scrub oak
Quercus myrtifolia | small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States, often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas |
saw palmetto
scrub palmetto
Serenoa repens | small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States |
common morel
Morchella esculenta
sponge mushroom
sponge morel | an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges |
tsutsugamushi disease
scrub typhus | transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia |
| sponge | 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 |
| sponge down | wash with a sponge |
scrub
scrub up | wash thoroughly, surgeons must scrub prior to an operation |
drop out
give up
fall by the wayside
drop by the wayside
throw in
throw in the towel
quit chuck up the sponge | give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope, admit defeat, In the second round, the challenger gave up |
sponge down
sponge off | clean with a sponge, by rubbing |
scrub
scour | clean with hard rubbing, She scrubbed his back |
| sponge on | apply with a sponge, The painter sponged on his washes |
| sponge | gather sponges, in the ocean |
| sponge | wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten |
| sponge | soak up with a sponge |
| sponge up | absorb as if with a sponge, sponge up the spilled milk on the counter |