car·bon·at·ed waterAudio Help (kär'bə-nā'tĭd) Pronunciation Key
n.
Effervescent water, usually containing salts, charged under pressure with purified carbon dioxide gas, used as a beverage or mixer. Also called club soda, seltzer, soda, soda water.
Chiefly Northeastern U.S., Eastern Missouri, & Southwestern Illinois See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic.
A refreshment made from carbonated water, ice cream, and usually a flavoring.
Games The card turned face up at the beginning of faro.
[Middle English sode, soda, saltwort, soda, from Old Italian soda, perhaps from Arabic suwayd, soda, soda-plant or suwayda, type of saltwort; see šwd in Semitic roots.]
1471, "alkaline substance," from It. sida (or M.L. soda) "a kind of saltwort," from which soda is obtained, probably from Arabic suwwad, the name of a variety of saltwort exported from North Africa to Sicily in the Middle Ages, related to sawad "black," the color of the plant. The meaning "carbonated water" is first recorded 1834, a shortening of soda water (1802). Soda fountain is from 1824; soda jerk first attested 1883. First record of soda pop is from 1873.
the name given to several substances formed with sodium, especially one (washing soda or sodium carbonate) in the form of crystals, used for washing, or one (baking soda or sodium bicarbonate) used in baking
Arabic:
صودا
Chinese (Simplified):
小苏打
Chinese (Traditional):
小蘇打
Czech:
soda
Danish:
soda
Dutch:
soda
Estonian:
sooda
Finnish:
sooda
French:
(bicarbonate de) soude
German:
das Soda
Greek:
σόδα
Hungarian:
szóda; szódabikarbóna
Icelandic:
natríum; sódi
Indonesian:
soda
Italian:
bicarbonato di sodio*
Japanese:
(炭酸)ソーダ
Korean:
소다, 탄산소다
Latvian:
soda
Lithuanian:
soda
Norwegian:
natronsåpe; natron
Polish:
soda
Portuguese (Brazil):
soda
Portuguese (Portugal):
soda
Romanian:
(bicarbonat de) sodiu
Russian:
сода
Slovak:
sóda (bikarbóna)
Slovenian:
soda
Spanish:
sosa
Swedish:
soda, natriumkarbonat, bikarbonat
Turkish:
soda
soda2[ˈsəudə]noun
soda-water Example: whisky and soda
Arabic:
ماء الصودا
Chinese (Simplified):
苏打水
Chinese (Traditional):
蘇打水
Czech:
soda
Danish:
soda
Dutch:
soda
Estonian:
soodavesi
Finnish:
soodavesi
French:
soda
German:
der Sprudel
Greek:
σόδα
Hungarian:
szóda(víz)
Icelandic:
sódavatn
Indonesian:
air soda
Italian:
soda
Japanese:
炭酸水
Korean:
소다수
Latvian:
gāzēts ūdens
Lithuanian:
sodos vanduo
Norwegian:
sodavann
Polish:
woda sodowa
Portuguese (Brazil):
soda
Portuguese (Portugal):
soda
Romanian:
sifon
Russian:
содовая вода
Slovak:
sóda, sódovka
Slovenian:
sodavica
Spanish:
soda
Swedish:
sodavatten
Turkish:
maden suyu, soda
soda3[ˈsəudə]noun
(American) a drink made with flavoured soda-water and usually ice-cream
SODA Symbolic Optimum DEUCE Assembly Program. The symbolic assembler for a one-level storagevirtual machine for the English ELectricDEUCE. ["SODA Manual of Operation", R. C. Brigham and C. G. Bell, School of Elec Eng, U New S Wales, Sydney, NSW (1958)]. (1994-11-04)
Soda Springs, ID (city, FIPS 75195) Location: 42.65859 N, 111.58551 W Population (1990): 3111 (1244 housing units) Area: 11.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83276
So"da\, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having probably been a name of glasswort. See Solid.] (Chem.) (a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide. (b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Caustic soda, sodium hydroxide. Cooking soda, sodium bicarbonate. [Colloq.] Sal soda. See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. Soda alum (Min.), a mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of alumina and soda. Soda ash, crude sodium carbonate; -- so called because formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain other plants, as saltwort (Salsola). See under Sodium. Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted with delivery tube, faucets, etc. Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of sodium hydroxide, used in soap making. Soda niter. See Nitratine. Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts. Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc process of soda manufacture; -- called also alkali waste. Soda water, originally, a beverage consisting of a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate, with some acid to cause effervescence; now, in common usage, a beverage consisting of water highly charged with carbon dioxide (carbonic acid). Fruit sirups, cream, etc., are usually added to give flavor. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. Washing soda, sodium carbonate. [Colloq.]
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