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so⋅da

  [soh-duh]
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–noun
1. sodium hydroxide.
2. sodium monoxide.
3. sodium carbonate (def. 2).
4. sodium, as in carbonate of soda.
5. soda water.
6. a drink made with soda water, flavoring, such as fruit or other syrups, and often ice cream, milk, etc.
7. soda pop.
8. (in faro) the card turned up in the dealing box before one begins to play.
Origin:
1550–60; (< It) < ML < Ar suwwādah kind of plant; cf. MF soulde, soude

Related forms:
so⋅da⋅less, adjective

Regional variation note:
7. See soda pop.
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sodium carbonate

 
–noun Chemistry.
1. Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na2CO3, usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
2. Also called sal soda, soda, washing soda. the decahydrated form of this salt, Na2CO3·10H2O, used similarly.
3. the monohydrated form of this salt, Na2CO3·H2O, used similarly, esp. in photography.
Origin:
1865–70

sodium hydroxide

 
–noun Chemistry.
a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
Also called caustic soda, soda.

Origin:
1880–85

sodium monoxide

 
–noun Chemistry.
a white powder, Na2O, that reacts violently with water to produce sodium hydroxide.
Also called soda, sodium oxide.
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car·bon·at·ed water   (kär'bə-nā'tĭd)   
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.
so·da   (sō'də)   
n.  

    1. Any of various forms of sodium carbonate.

    2. Chemically combined sodium.

    3. See carbonated water.

    4. Chiefly Northeastern U.S., Eastern Missouri, & Southwestern Illinois See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic.

    1. See carbonated water.

    2. Chiefly Northeastern U.S., Eastern Missouri, & Southwestern Illinois See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic.

  3. A refreshment made from carbonated water, ice cream, and usually a flavoring.

  4. 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.]
soft drink  
n.   In both senses also called soda pop; also called regionally cold drink, drink, pop1, soda, soda water, tonic.

  1. A nonalcoholic, flavored, carbonated beverage, usually commercially prepared and sold in bottles or cans.

  2. A serving of this beverage. See Regional Note at tonic.

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Word Origin & History

soda 
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.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: so·da
Pronunciation: 'sOd-&
Function: noun
: SODIUMCARBONATE; also : SODIUM BICARBONATE

Main Entry: sodium carbonate
Function: noun
: a sodium salt of carbonic acid used especially in making soaps and chemicals, in water softening, in cleaning and bleaching,and in photography: as a : a hygroscopic crystalline anhydrous strongly alkaline salt Na2CO3 b : WASHING SODA

Main Entry: sodium hydroxide
Function: noun
: a white brittle deliquescent solid NaOH that dissolves readily in water to form a strongly alkaline and caustic solution andthat is used in pharmacy as an alkalizing agent called also caustic soda
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Medical Dictionary

soda so·da (sō'də)
n.

  1. Any of various forms of sodium carbonate.

  2. Chemically combined sodium.

sodium hydroxide n.
A strongly alkaline compound used externally. Also called caustic soda.

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SODA
Symbolic Optimum DEUCE Assembly Program

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