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Soup
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- 1 Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture. countable, uncountable
"Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup."
- 2 Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food wordnet
- 4 Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.; A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl. countable
- 5 an unfortunate situation wordnet
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- 6 Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.; The liquid part of such a dish; the broth. uncountable
- 7 any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup wordnet
- 8 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment."
- 9 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup). countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
- 10 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking. US, countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
- 11 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; Dope or cocaine. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"[…]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…]"
- 12 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer. countable, figuratively, uncountable
- 13 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"primordial soup"
- 14 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos. UK, countable, figuratively, informal, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
"B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”"
- 15 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; The foamy portion of a wave. countable, figuratively, uncountable
- 16 Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.; Any random starting pattern, typically studied to see what sorts of resultant more stable patterns emerge when evolved over subsequent generations. countable, figuratively, uncountable
- 1 To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. uncommon
"I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day."
- 2 Alternative form of sup (“to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 To sweep. obsolete
"He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty."
- 4 Rare form of sup (“to take supper”). form-of, rare
"When I cam that tym to the court, I fand my Lord Due of Orkney sitting at his supper. He said I had bene a gret stranger, desyring me to sit down and soup with him. The Erie of Huntly, the justice-clark, and dyvers uthers, wer sitten at the table with him. I said that I had already souped."
- 5 dope (a racehorse) wordnet
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- 6 To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
"That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]"
- 7 To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching. obsolete
"Was the priest who denounced those books of the National Board as "souping books" the patron of a national school?"
Etymology
The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.
The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.
From Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sup, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną. More at sup.
From Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe (“sup; draught”).
From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep”). More at sweep.
From Middle English soupen, suppen, from Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe (“soup”) + -er (verb-forming suffix).
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