What does SOAP mean?

Definitions for SOAP
soʊpsoap

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. soapnoun

    a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats

  2. soapnoun

    money offered as a bribe

  3. soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy layverb

    street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

  4. soap, latherverb

    rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning

Wiktionary

  1. soapnoun

    A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically.

    I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.

  2. soapnoun

    A soap opera.

  3. soapverb

    To apply soap to in washing.

    Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.

  4. soapverb

    To cover with soap as a prank.

    Those kids soaped my windows!

  5. soapverb

    To be discreet about (a topic).

  6. Etymology: From sope, sape, from sape, from saipōn, from seib-. Cognate with saip, sape, sjippe, zeep, sepe, Seife, såpa, sápa. Related also to sap, sebum. See seep.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Soapnoun

    A substance used in washing, made of a lixivium of vegetable alkaline ashes and any unctuous substance.

    Etymology: sape , Saxon; sapo, Latin.

    Soap is a mixture of a fixed alkaline salt and oil; its virtues are cleansing, penetrating, attenuating, and resolving; and any mixture of any oily substance with salt may be called a soap. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

    He is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers soap. Malachi.

    A bubble blown with water, first made tenacious by dissolving a little soap in it, after a while will appear tinged with a great variety of colours. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

    Soap-earth is found in great quantity on the land near the banks of the river Hermus, seven miles from Smyrna. John Woodward.

    Soap-ashes are much commended, after the soap-boilers have done with them, for cold or sour lands. John Mortimer.

    As rain-water diminishes their salt, so the moistening of them with chamber-lee or soap-suds adds thereto. John Mortimer.

Wikipedia

  1. Soap

    Soap is a salt of a fatty acid used in a variety of cleansing and lubricating products. In a domestic setting, soaps are surfactants usually used for washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping. In industrial settings, soaps are used as thickeners, components of some lubricants, and precursors to catalysts. When used for cleaning, soap solubilizes particles and grime, which can then be separated from the article being cleaned. In hand washing, as a surfactant, when lathered with a little water, soap kills microorganisms by disorganizing their membrane lipid bilayer and denaturing their proteins. It also emulsifies oils, enabling them to be carried away by running water.Soap is created by mixing fats and oils with a base. A similar process is used for making detergent which is also created by combining chemical compounds in a mixer. Humans have used soap for millennia. Evidence exists for the production of soap-like materials in ancient Babylon around 2800 BC.

ChatGPT

  1. soap

    Soap is a substance used with water for washing and cleaning, typically made by treating a fat or oil with an alkali such as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting largely of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids. It is primarily used to remove dirt, grease, and oil from various surfaces like skin, textiles or utensils. It can take various forms including bar, liquid, powder, or gel.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Soapnoun

    a substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not

  2. Soapverb

    to rub or wash over with soap

  3. Soapverb

    to flatter; to wheedle

  4. Etymology: [OE. sope, AS. spe; akin to D. zeep, G. seife, OHG. seifa, Icel. spa, Sw. spa, Dan. sbe, and perhaps to AS. span to drip, MHG. sfen, and L. sebum tallow. Cf. Saponaceous.]

Wikidata

  1. SOAP

    SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks. It relies on XML Information Set for its message format, and usually relies on other Application Layer protocols, most notably Hypertext Transfer Protocol or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, for message negotiation and transmission.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Soap

    sōp, n. a compound of oils or fats with soda (hard soaps) or potash (soft soaps), used in washing: (slang) soft words, flattery: (U.S. slang) money used for bribery and other secret political purposes.—v.t. to rub or wash with soap: to flatter.—ns. Soap′-ball, soap made into a ball, often with starch, as an emollient; Soap′berry, the fruit of several species of trees belonging to the genus Sapindus, containing a pulp useful as a substitute for soap in washing; Soap′-boil′er, one whose occupation is to make soap; Soap′-boil′ing, the occupation of making soap; Soap′-bub′ble, a bubble made from soap-suds by blowing through a pipe; Soap′iness; Soap′-lock, a lock of hair brushed apart from the rest: a rowdy; Soap′-pan, a large tank for boiling the ingredients in soap-making; Soap′-plant, a plant the bulb of which makes a thick lather when rubbed on clothes, and is used as soap; Soap′-stone, a soft kind of magnesian rock having a soapy feel, also called Steatite; Soap′-suds (s. and pl.), soapy water, esp. when worked into a foam; Soap′-test, a test for determining the degree of hardness of water; Soap′-works, a place where soap is made; Soap′wort, a genus of plants, some of the species of which have very beautiful flowers, and the root and leaves of which contain saponin, and hence are sometimes used in washing.—adj. Soap′y, like soap: having the qualities of soap: covered with soap: flattering, or pertaining to flattery. [A.S. sápe; Dut. zeep, Ger. seife.]

Rap Dictionary

  1. soapnoun

    Small chunks of soap, cut up to look like crack cocaine. Made in order to sell to unknowing victims for large profits, with little initial investment. I'm that nigga that sold coke, the nigga that sold dope, the nigga that shot dice, went broke, then sold soap. -- 50 Cent (Life's on the Line) Fu**in over fiends, laughin in they face, sellin soap to niggas, could die any day. -- Spice One (Face of a Desperate Man) "Sold dope, sold crack, sold soap, sold rap" -- Jay-Z (Think It's a Game) by Beanie Sigel Back in the days when coke was 20 a gram, I was the nigga selling soap for 50 a gram -- Poet in (Straight Outta Q.B.) by QB Finest

Editors Contribution

  1. soap

    A type of product created and formulated in various colors and forms for a variety of purposes according to the manufacturer product creation and purpose.

    Soap comes in many forms i.e. a bar of soap, liquid soap etc.


    Submitted by MaryC on October 26, 2016  

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  1. SOAP

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SOAP

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Soap is ranked #77264 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Soap surname appeared 248 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Soap.

    70.1% or 174 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    12.5% or 31 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    9.2% or 23 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    7.6% or 19 total occurrences were White.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SOAP' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3833

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SOAP' in Nouns Frequency: #2318

Anagrams for SOAP »

  1. OAPs

  2. sapo

  3. asop

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SOAP in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SOAP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of SOAP in a Sentence

  1. Tom Kiefer:

    The enormous amount of belongings, such as extra clothing, socks, shoes and personal items such as rosaries, Bibles, belts, underwear, toothbrushes, soap, was in many ways incomprehensible (to me), and I am certain much of this was not meant to be discarded.

  2. Di Girolamo:

    I'm a little nervous and very grateful and expectant, I want to enjoy every moment, it's also my first time in a leading role in a movie. I come from the world of television series, soap operas in Chile. I've had some smaller roles in films. So this is like my grand debut which is a bit strange.

  3. Aaron Liao:

    You can say to it ‘Find me men’s shorts’ and I can give you turn-by-turn walking directions to every instance of men’s shirts, whether they are inside Bloomingdales, Abercrombie and Fitch, or Nordstrom, it’s amazingly accurate. We boast one meter of accuracy, which is effectively the difference between leading you to men’s button-down shirts and the casual t-shirts that are right next to them. Three feet of accuracy means I can lead you directly to the soap versus the shampoo that’s right next to it.

  4. Mark Levin:

    Ill give you a perfect example.We have food, we have heat, wehave clean water.Who you think is giving that tous?Other citizens.Electricity, gasoline for ourcars.Truckers, we have a mailservice, UPS, FedEx, grocerystores, fast-fooddrive-throughs, all open, allfunctioning.We get soap and diapers andtoilet paper, prescriptiondrugs,7-Elevens are open.Doctors, nurses, cops, firefighters, more, going intothese hot zones despite the factthat they are exposed, im not saying drop all theconditions.Im saying lets get a littlesmarter about this.We dont ask these businessesCan you adjust to the virus ? [ Are there ] things you can do ?

  5. Mary Jane Minkin:

    The vagina and the vulva are the most sensitive tissues in the body— to harsh soaps, fragrances, and all other possible allergens, when people think of ‘clean’ they tend to think of harsh, deodorizing soaps, but please don't use these. The less soap, the better. If you want to use a soap, use gentle pH balanced washes.

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