What does "sop" mean?
Something entirely soaked.
Sop
/sɒp/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Something entirely soaked.
- Grammar: sop is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: appease, ass, baby, baksheesh.
- Useful contrasts: alienate, dehydrate, denial.
- Usage evidence: The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Something entirely soaked. countable, uncountable
"The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:"
- 2 Clipping of soprano. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
- 3 Initialism of sex on or over the phone. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 4 Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“system/systems of provision”). alt-of
"In retrospect, it is worth mentioning that, going into the 1990s, the range of SoP applications expanded from private commodity consumption to public consumption—especially as the neoliberal drive to denationalize was peaking but being augmented by an accelerating pressure for privatization through new forms of state/private partnerships."
- 5 a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely wordnet
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- 6 A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food. countable, uncountable
"[…]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it."
- 7 Initialism of standard operating procedure. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 8 Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“sum of parts”). alt-of
"WiG-SoP? / [ECOSYSTEM (science)] Yes (unequivocal) emergent hierarchical / SCALE / [MANAGEMENT (governance)] No (< SoP?) reductionist sectoral […] WiG-SoP = Whole is Greater than Sum of Parts; […]"
- 9 a concession given to mollify or placate wordnet
- 10 Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, figuratively, uncountable
"Ill Nature, in fine, is not to be Cur’d with a Sop; but on the contrary, Quarrelſome Men, as well as Quarrelſome Currs are worſe for fair Uſage."
- 11 Initialism of start of production. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 12 piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid wordnet
- 13 Ellipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, derogatory, ellipsis, uncountable
- 14 Initialism of setting-out point. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 15 Gravy. Appalachia, countable, uncountable
- 16 Initialism of system/systems of provision. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"As Lockie and Kitto (2000: 5) note, this important dimension is recognized by the SOP approach but they argue that it is “poorly developed in both theorisation and operationalisation.” Furthermore, production activities are privileged in SOP analysis as “determinants of consumption practices” and the “role of agency is marginalised” by giving primacy to structural tendencies in the shaping of SOPs (ibid.: 5)."
- 17 A thing of little or no value. countable, uncountable
"Here, in Barcelona, your streets are alive at night, you walk, you eat for hours, you interact, you share your minds. Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop. The whole country and everything you've ever believed about it really functions only on the surface."
- 18 Initialism of sum of parts. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"In like manner, the "not-SOP/ROP" complement of a system (SOP + ROP) is called the nature of the whole, or the organizing essence of a systemic whole. […] And it is there as an aspect of the whole which differs from the sum of parts (SOP) ."
- 19 A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling. countable, uncountable
- 20 Initialism of same-origin policy. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 21 Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”). Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 22 Initialism of semen on picture. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To steep or dip in any liquid. transitive
"A messe of milke sopt with white bread."
- 2 cover with liquid; pour liquid onto wordnet
- 3 To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate. intransitive
- 4 dip into liquid wordnet
- 5 be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid wordnet
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- 6 give a conciliatory gift or bribe to wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of State of Palestine. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Example
"The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "sop"?
Common synonyms include: appease, ass, baby, baksheesh, bathe, big baby.
How do you use "sop" in a sentence?
The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:
How do you pronounce "sop"?
Pronounced /sɒp/.
Etymology
From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.