Ads
Standard operating procedures www.comprose.com/ Proven System to Create & Maintain Good Standard Operating Procedures
Dove® Beauty Bars www.dove.us/Bar Dove® Bars With 1/4 Moisturizing Cream. Treat Your Skin!
noun
1.
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
2.
anything thoroughly soaked.
3.
something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop.
4.
a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.
verb (used with object)
5.
to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy.
6.
to drench.
7.
to take up (liquid) by absorption (usually followed by up ): He used bread to sop up the gravy.
00:10
Sop
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is absquatulate. Does it mean:
| to flee; abscond: |
| to bark; yelp. |
verb (used without object)
8.
to be or become soaking wet.
9.
(of a liquid) to soak (usually followed by in ).
Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup2
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English sopp; cognate with Old Norse soppa; (v.) Old English soppian, derivative of the noun (not recorded in ME). See sup2
Synonyms
3. tip, gratuity, payoff.
3. tip, gratuity, payoff.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
SOP
Standard Operating Procedure; Standing Operating Procedure.
Also, S.O.P.
sop.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source
|
Link To sop
Collins
World English Dictionary
sop (sɒp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (often plural) food soaked in a liquid before being eaten |
| 2. | a concession, bribe, etc, given to placate or mollify: a sop to one's feelings |
| 3. | informal a stupid or weak person |
| —vb (when intr, | |
| 4. | (tr) to dip or soak (food) in liquid |
| 5. | to soak or be soaked |
| [Old English sopp; related to Old Norse soppa | |
| SOP | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| standard operating procedure | |
| sop. | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| soprano | |
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
sop
O.E. sopp- "bread soaked in some liquid," (in soppcuppe "cup into which sops are put"), from P.Gmc. *suppo, related to O.E. verb suppan (see sup (2)), probably reinforced by O.Fr. soupe (see soup (n.)). Meaning "something given to appease" is from
1665, an allusion to the sop given by the Sibyl to Cerberus in Virgil's "Aeneid."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Slang Dictionary
sop definition
|
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| SOP standard operating procedure |
| sop. soprano |
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Easton
Bible Dictionary
Sop definition
a morsel of bread (John 13:26; comp. Ruth 2:14). Our Lord took a piece of unleavened bread, and dipping it into the broth of bitter herbs at the Paschal meal, gave it to Judas. (Comp. Ruth 2:14.)
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Example sentences
The art was used to sop up ink, given away to fans or destroyed.
The way this memorial gets added to as a sop to political correctness is especially troubling.
Essentially it was a sop to the unions, both in the sawmills and in the construction industry.
There is, admittedly, the occasional sop of a memorable line.
Nearby Words
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
