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Soap

Definition: Soap

Soap

Noun

1. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.

2. Money offered as a bribe.

Verb

1. Cover with soap.

2. Rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "soap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Soap

DomainDefinition

Computing

SOAP 1. Simple Object Access Protocol. 2. Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program. (2001-03-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Agriculture

Sunflowerseed Oil Assistance Program. (references)

Bible

Soap (Jer. 2:22; Mal. 3:2; Heb. borith), properly a vegetable alkali, obtained from the ashes of certain plants, particularly the salsola kali (saltwort), which abounds on the shores of the Dead Sea and of the Mediterranean. It does not appear that the Hebrews were acquainted with what is now called "soap," which is a compound of alkaline carbonates with oleaginous matter. The word "purely" in Isa. 1:25 (R.V., "throughly;" marg., "as with lye") is lit. "as with _bor_." This word means "clearness," and hence also that which makes clear, or pure, alkali. "The ancients made use of alkali mingled with oil, instead of soap (Job 9:30), and also in smelting metals, to make them melt and flow more readily and purely" (Gesenius). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Building & Civil Engineering

A brick of the same length as a standard square but of smaller thickness and or breadth, with end faces square or nearly square. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream of soap, foretells that friendships will reveal interesting entertainment. Farmers will have success in their varied affairs.
For a young woman to be making soap, omens a substantial and satisfactory competency will be hers. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Industry

A salt, of a long-chain fatty acid, which has detergent properties. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Soap An English form of savon, the French for soap.
How are you off for soap? (for money or any other necessity). The insurgent women of Paris, in February, 1793, went about carrying, "Du pain et du savon!" (bread and soap).
"A deputation of washwomen petitioned the Convention for soap, and their plaintive cry was heard round the Salle de Manége, `Du pain er du savon!' "- Cartyie: French Revolution, pt. iii. bk. iii. 1.
Soap (Castile). A hard white soap made of olive oil, sometimes mottled with ferruginous matter.
There are also Marseilles soap, Spanish soap, Venetian soap, and marine soap (usually made of cocoanut oil and used with sea-water). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Medicine

A detergent substance prepared by boiling natural oils or fats with caustic alkali. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Simple Object Access Protocol

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

SOAP (formerly an acronym of Simple Object Access Protocol) is a light-weight protocol for exchanging messages between computer software, typically in the form of software components. The word object implies that the use should adhere the object-oriented programming programming paradigm.

SOAP is an extensible and decentralized framework that can work over multiple computer network protocol stacks. Remote procedure calls can be modeled as an interaction of several SOAP messages. SOAP is one of the enabling protocols for Web services.

SOAP can be run on top of all the Internet Protocols, but HTTP is the most common and the only one standardized by the W3C. SOAP is based on XML, and its design follows the "Head-Body" Pattern, not unlike HTML. The head contains meta-information like information for routing, security and transactions. The body transports the main information.

See also:

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Soap

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

simple:soap

Soap and detergent are substances for cleaning. They come in bars, powder and liquid form.

Soaps are mixtures of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats by reacting them with an alkali (like sodium or potassium hydroxide) at 80°-100 °C in the process known as saponification. Hydrolysis of the fats and oils occurs, yielding glycerol and crude soap.

CH2-OOC-R - CH-OOC-R - CH2-OOC-R (fat)

+ 3 NaOH ( or KOH)

both heated --->>

CH2-OH -CH-OH - CH2-OH (glycerol)

+ 3 R-CO2-Na (soap)

R=(CH2)14CH3

Before commercially produced lye was common place, lye was produced at home for soap making from the ashes of a wood fire.

Sodium chloride is added to precipitate the soap.

Purification and ending

Reaction contains sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, and glycerol. These impurities are removed by boiling the crude soap curds in water and re-precipitating the soap with salt.

Sand or pumice may be added to produce a scouring soap.

Use

Although the soap term continues to be used informally in everyday speech and product labels, in practice nearly all kinds of "soap" in use today are actually detergents, which are less expensive, more effective, and easier to manufacture.

Soaps are useful and used primarily for cleansing because soap molecules attach readily to both nonpolar molecules (such as grease or oil) and polar molecules (such as water). Although grease will normally adhere to skin or clothing, the soap molecules can attach to it as a "handle" and make it easier to rinse away.

(water soluble end)
CH3-(CH2)n - COONa

(fatty part)

The hydrocarbon ("fatty") portion dissolves dirt and oils, while the ionic end makes it soluble in water. Thus, it allows water to remove normally-insoluble matter.

The ancient world was generally innocent of soap; the Romans built baths, but did not often use soap in them. According to Pliny the Elder, soap was invented by the ancient Gauls. They did not use it for washing, though; they used it as a pomade to keep their hair shiny.

Historically, soap was often made in the home by mixing animal fats with lye. Because of the caustic lye, this was a dangerous procedure (perhaps more dangerous than any present-day home activities) which occasionally resulted in serious chemical burns or blindness.

Before commercially produced lye was common place, lye was produced at home for soap making from the ashes of a wood fire.

One can play with soap by making soap bubbles that float in the air.

See also

External links

There was a controversial 1970s sitcom called Soap, starring future celebrity Billy Crystal. Soap is also a colloquial term for a soap opera. In computing, the acronym SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soap."

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Soap (sitcom)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Soap was a sitcom which ran on the ABC network from 1977 through 1981. The show was designed as a weekly, nighttime half hour comedy whose format was similar to that of a soap opera. The show was controversial for its time, as it included the first homosexual character who starred in a prime-time network television series in the United States. The gay character, Jodie Dallas, was played by actor Billy Crystal. Many stations refused to air the series because of this character.

The program centered around two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell. The Tate family were wealthy, and employed a sarcastic butler, Benson, played by Robert Guillaume (the character of Benson was spun off into his own series, Benson, in 1979.) Jessica and her husband, Chester, were hardly models of fidelity, as their various love affairs resulted in several family mishaps, including the murder of Mary's stepson, Peter (Robert Urich), in the early days of the show. Mary's family, the Campbells, were more middle-class, but had the problem that Mary's son Danny Dallas was a junior gangster in training.

Other plot lines involved Jessica's daughter's love affair with a priest (another controversial subject which caused many stations to refuse to air the show); Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose alter ego was his dummy Bob, who voiced all of the negative comments that Chuck was too repressed to say; Jessica's love affair with a Latin American revolutionary; and Mary's husband Burt being replaced by an alien look-alike.

Major characters the actors who portrayed them

The show was created, written, produced and directed by Susan Harris.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soap (sitcom)."

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Soap opera

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A soap opera or daytime serial is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television or radio. What differentiates a soap from other television drama programs is their open-ended nature. Plots run concurrently, and lead into further developments: there is rarely a need to "wrap things up", although soaps that run in series for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic cliffhanger. The soap opera form first developed on broadcast radio in the 1920s, and expanded into television starting in the 1940s.

The USA soap opera Port Charles has begun the practice of running 13-week "arcs", in which the main events of the arc are played out and wrapped up over the 13 weeks, although some storylines do continue over more than one arc.

Most soaps follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place.

The term "soap opera" originated from the fact that when these serial dramas were aired on daytime radio, the commercials aired during the shows were largely aimed at housewives (this was during the first half of the 20th century, when married women were expected to stay home and raise the children). Many of the products sold during these commercials were laundry and cleaning items. This specific type of radio drama came to be associated with these particular commercials, and this gave rise to the term "soap opera"—a melodramatic story that aired commercials for soap products.

Prime time serials were especially popular during the 1980s. The most successful included: Dallas; Dynasty; Knots Landing; and, from the 1990s, Beverly Hills 90210. The first real prime time soap opera was Peyton Place (1964-1969).

A few soap opera spoofs have been made. Two of the most famous U.S. spoofs were Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Soap. On British television, comedian Victoria Wood a long-running spoof soap entitled Acorn Antiques features on her sketch show (loosely based on ITV's Crossroads). In the United States, Carol Burnett frequently ran a soap opera spoof on her show, called \As the Stomach Turns.

The soap opera's distinctive open plot structure and complex continuity was eventually adopted in major American prime time television programs. The first significant one was Hill Street Blues produced by Steven Bochco which featured many elements borrowed by soap operas such as an ensemble cast, multi-episode storylines and extensive character development over the course of the series. The success of this series soon gave rise to a variety of other serious drama and science fiction series which took much the same elements to structure their own storylines.

The BBC continues to broadcast one of the earlier radio "soap opera" programmes in Britain, the ever popular "Archers", on Radio 4. It has been running since 1951 nationally. It continues to attract over five million listeners, or roughly 25% of the radio listening population of the UK at that time of the evening.

The American soap opera The Guiding Light started as a radio drama in January 1937. With the exception of several years in the late 1940s when Irna Phillips was in dispute with Procter and Gamble, The Guiding Light has been heard or seen every weekday since, making it the longest story ever told.

See also: history of radio, literature, drama, radio theater, theater, list of soap operas, telenovela

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Soap

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SOAP

EnglishSelf-optimizing automatic pilotN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Soap

Synonym: lather (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Soap

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Flattery

Incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder; rose water.

Lubrication

Verb: lubricate, lubricitate; oil, grease, lather, soap; wax.

Oil

Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate

School

Pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Soap

English words defined with "soap": bar soap, bath soapCastile soapface soapgreen soapLead soap, leather soap, liquid soapPills of soap, Potash soap, Pumice soapResin soapsaddle soap, shaving soap, soap bubble, Soap cerate, soap dish, soap dispenser, Soap fat, soap film, soap flakes, Soap liniment, soap opera, soap pad, Soap plant, soap powder, Soda soap, soft soaptoilet soapVenetian soapWindsor soap. (references)
Specialty definitions using "soap": CASE SOAP IIISOAP CHIPPER, SOAP GRINDER, SOAP INSPECTOR, soap slabber, Soft as Soap. (references)
Etymologies containing "soap": suet. (references)

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Modern Usage: Soap

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What, did they run out of soap at the Piggly Wiggly (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Soap, don't be such a mincer (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Tyler sold his soap to department stores at $20 a bar. Lord knows what they charged (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

You steal my soap, you steal my cigarettes, you even stole my face powder (Englishman Abroad, An; writing credit: Alan Bennett)

Jeffrey smells like soap. (Afterglow; writing credit: Alan Rudolph)

Lyrics

Like a soap on a rope, (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra)

So the soap opera is told and unfolds (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

Soap opera says you've got one life to live (What Have You Done For Me Lately; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Clever

What soap is for the body; tears are for the soul. (references; author: unknown)

On a bar of Dial soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Saddle Soap Opera (1974)

No Soap (1963)

A Little Soap and Water (1935)

Too Much Soap (1922)

The Soap Girl (1918)

Song Titles

A Little Bit of Soap (performing artist: The Jarmels)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Soap

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Soap and Cleansing Preparations (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Soap and Cleansing Preparations in Africa (reference)

  • The 2001 Report on Soap, Cleaners and Toilet Goods: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Soap, Cleaners and Toilet Goods: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Soap and Cleansing Preparations Export Supplies (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement (reference)

  • Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI (reference)

  • The Soap Opera Book: Who's Who in Daytime Drama (reference)

  • Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI (reference)

  • AXIS: Next Generation Java SOAP (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Soap

Photos:
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Photo Album: Soap

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

"Soap Film (It Pops)" (movie) by More ...

Black sludge from well, result of drilling soap liguifying organic clay and manganese layers in dolomite soil formationsMeadow Creek stock water wellBurley Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Tim Fuller.

Acrylic painting of a spectacled eider flying over an Arctic seascape by Joseph Hautman, 410 Sycamore Circle, Plymouth, MN 55441. Hautman's design was one of 585 entered in the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. He studied art and physics at the University of Minnesota where he received a degree in physics and later received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. His published work has contributed to the understanding of a broad range of phenomenon -- from the shapes of water droplets and snow flakes to the miscroscopic structures of soap bubbles and cell membranes. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

U. S. Army Hospital Number 101, St. Nazaire, France. : Making laundry soap from refuse meat. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Welcome Soap. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Know nothing soap. Credit: Library of Congress.

There was no soap, no matches, no looking glass. Credit: Library of Congress.

You need only one soap--Ivory soap / The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

A supply of [Sunlight] soap being loaded into trucks to be distributed to civilians--North Africa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Williams' shaving soap The leader through 20 administrations. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Soap
 

"Soap dish" by Braden Hays
Commentary: "From shower series i took a few months ago."
"Strawberry soap" by Guiga Müller
Commentary: "A strawberry soap I don't have courage to use...it's so beautiful!."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Soap".

PlayCaption
Soap bubble popping.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Soap

AuthorQuotation

Robert G. Ingersoll

With soap baptism is a good thing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Soap

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Got to get soap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Soap

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Wash hands thoroughly with soap and water. (references)

Soap can dry out the skin, making discomfort worse. (references)

Wash the area with water, but not soap, after a bowel movement. (references)

Business

The products that spent the most for advertising were shampoo, laundry detergents, soft drinks, soap, beer, motorbikes and toothpaste. (references)

Quite a few U.S. soap and detergent producers are established in Sweden, i.e. procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive, and Cederroth International (Alberto Culver). (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Palm stearin and tallow are used in the production of soap. (references)

Dominica

Trade: ExportsUS $54.2 million: bananas, citrus fruits, soap, cocoa. (references)

Gambia, The

Other manufacturing activities include soap, soft drinks, and clothing. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

Prisoners reportedly have one meal per day and receive 4.4 ounces of soap every 6 months. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

BICE also provided female inmates with food, medical care, clothing, soap, and other necessities. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

E.O. 259 bans imports of soap and detergents containing less than 60 percent coconut-based surface active agents of Philippine origin, thereby requiring local sourcing by soap and detergent manufacturers. (references)

Trade

Ghana

Import prohibitions include: narcotics, mercuric medicated soap, toxic waste, contaminated goods, foreign cigarettes without a warning notice, foreign soil, counterfeit notes and coins of any country, and any goods prohibited by local law. (references)

Worker Rights

Gambia

During the year, at Sankung-Sillah soap factory a pipe carrying hot chemicals burst and killed and injured employees. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Soap

"Soap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.98% of the time. "Soap" is used about 1,244 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)93.98%1,1696,591
Noun (proper)4.5%5645,296
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.04%1397,576
Lexical Verb (base form)0.48%6143,867
                    Total100.00%1,244N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Soap

Expressions using "soap": bar soap bath soap cake of soap case SOAP III castile soap deodorant soap face soap facial soap Fuller's soap Glass soap Glassmaker's soap green soap hand soap Hard soap invert soap Lead soap leather soap liquid soap Marine soap Marseilles or Venetian soap Marseilles soap mild soap mountain soap no soap perfumed soap pills of soap potash soap pumice soap resin soap rock soap saddle soap scented soap shaving soap Silicated soap soap apple soap bar soap bark soap box desk soap bubble soap buble soap bulb soap case soap cerate soap dish soap dispenser soap down soap factory soap fat soap film soap flakes Soap Lake soap lather soap liniment soap nut soap opera soap pad soap plant soap powder soap solution soap stone soap suds soap tree soap wash soap weed soap works soda soap soft soap tablet of soap tall oil soap toilet soap transparent soap venetian soap Windsor soap yellow soap. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "soap": soap-art, soap-ash, soap-bag, soap-based, soap-boiler, soap-boiling, soap-box, soap-boxer, soap-boxing, soap-bubble, soap-container, soap-dish, soap-dispenser, soap-dream, soap-filled, soap-free, soap-like, soap-looking, soap-makers, soap-manufacturer, Soap-on-a-rope, soap-opera, soap-powder, soap-rack, soap-scum, soap-sleeked, soap-slick, soap-slicked, soap-stars, soap-style, soap-up.

Ending with "soap": baby-soap, euro-soap, mini-soap, non-soap, potash-soap, re-soap, soft-soap, super-soap, yellow-soap.

Containing "soap": built-soap powder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soap

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

soap opera

9,287

soap shoes

279

soap

5,530

soap dispenser

266

french soap

2,133

city.com soap

266

soap city

1,883

general hospital soap

265

soap opera digest

1,620

daytime soap

258

abc soap opera

1,537

soap recipe

243

soap central

1,134

soap supply

239

abc soap

1,133

cbs soap opera

227

soap making

1,054

com city soap

214

cbs soap

963

soap net

213

soap opera update

888

soap opera weekly

207

general hospital soap opera

725

tv guide soap

206

soap opera spoiler

616

the young and the restless soap opera

202

soap opera central

600

glycerine soap

197

soap spoiler

532

make soap

194

handmade soap

479

soap zone

192

soap making supply

442

day of our life soap opera

191

soap mold

423

homemade soap

189

passion soap opera

383

soap update

189

natural soap

374

eye soap

189
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soap

Language Translations for "soap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sapunis (lather), sapun. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مال يرشى به, ‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle), ‏صابون, ‏صبون. (various references)

   

Asturian

  

xabón. (various references)

   

Basque

  

xaboi. (various references)

   

Bavarian

  

soaffa. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

isopo. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

issísskioohsa'tsis. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

серийна мелодрама (soap opera), сапунисвам, сапун, ласкателство (adulation, blandishment, blarney, cajolement, cajolery, flattery, lip salve, oil, palaver, soft sawder, soft soap, sweet talk, taffy, toadyism), лаская (adulate, beslaver, blarney, cajole, carny, coax, flatter, incense, jolly, palaver, sawder, soft soap, sugar), подмазване (insinuation, oiliness, slaver), докарвам се на. (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

sabon. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

habon. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

肥皂 . (various references)

   

Cornish

  

seban. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mydlit, mýdlo. (various references)

   

Danish

  

sæbe. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zeep. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sapumi, sapo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sápa. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

صابون زدن (Lather, Scour), صابون . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saippua (cake of soap). (various references)

   

French

  

savon. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sjippe. (various references)

   

German

  

Seife (alluvial deposit, placer), seifen (soaps, wash). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαπούνι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לסבן, בורית (lixium, lye), סבון. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szappan (sampan), csúszópénz. (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

sápa. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sabun. (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

irmiut. (various references)

   

Irish

  

gallúnach. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sapone. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

石鹸 , 石けん , ソーダ石灰 (saute, Seoul, soarer, social worker, society, socket, socks, Socrates, soda lime, solar, solar system, sonata, sort, sortie, sorting, soul, sword, Turkish baths associated with prostitution), シャトル外交 (Chanel, chaperon, shadow, shadow cabinet, shadow pitching, shadow stripe, shadowboxing, shadowing, shaft, Shannon, shovel, shuttle diplomacy, young women completely outfitted in Chanel clothing and accessories). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せっけん (conquering, economy, interview, invading, sweeping conquest, sweeping over, thrift), ソープ , シャボン . (various references)

   

Kongo

  

sabuni. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

비누 (Soapier, Soapiest, soapy). (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

sapun. (various references)

   

Malay

  

sabun. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheeabin, cur sheeabin er. (various references)

   

Maori

  

hopi. (various references)

   

Maya

  

haabon. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

yenoharètha. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

såpe. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

sabon. (various references)

   

Papago

  

shawoni. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

habon. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oapsay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

mydło. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sabão (opodeldoc). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

sabon. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

såpun, sãpuni (call down, lather), sãpun, unge (anoint, besmear, coat, dab, daub, dope, dub, embrocate, grease, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, nobble, oil, oil smb.'s palms, palm, pomade, salve, smear, whitewash), tãmâiere (fumigation), tãmâia (cense, flatter, fumigate, give smb. butter, incense, sing the praises of), mitã (bribe, bribery, graft, gratification, gravy, hush money, jobbery, kickback, steer), linguşire (adulation, apple sauce, blandishment, butter, cajolement, cajolery, cringing, fawning, flannel, flattering, flattery, slaver, toad-eating), ban (ban, bribe, coin, fortune, gag, mite). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

savun. (various references)

   

Romany

  

saòoni. (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

isabuni. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

намыливать мыло мыльный, мыло (lather), мылить. (various references)

   

Samoan

  

fasimoli. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

siabunn , sìopunn, siabann, sìopunn. (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

sesepe. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sapun, nasapunati (lather). (various references)

   

Shona

  

sipo. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

sapuni. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

jabón. (various references)

   

Sranan

  

sopo. (various references)

   

Swahili

  

sabuni. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tvål, såpa (soft soap). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

sabón. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สบู่, ถูด้วยสบู่ (soap down). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sabunlamak (lather, soap down), sabun. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

sabyn. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

намилюватися, намилювати (lather), мило (agreeably, amiably, decently, foam). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xà phòng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

seboni (lather, soft-soap), sebon. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Soap

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

sapo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Soap

LanguageDateSourceMalachi Chapter 3, Verse 2
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai tiV upomenei hmeran eisodou autou h tiV uposthsetai en th optasia autou dioti autoV eisporeuetai wV pur cwneuthriou kai wV poa plunontwn
Latin405VulgateEt quis poterit cogitare diem adventus eius et quis stabit ad videndum eum ipse enim quasi ignis conflans et quasi herba fullonum
Middle English1395WyclifAnd who shal mowe thenke the day of his cummyng? and who shal stonde for to see hym? Forsothe he as fijr wellynge to gidre, and as the erbe of fullers;
Jacobean English1611King JamesBut who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
Victorian English1833WebsterBut who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.
Basic English1964OgdenBut by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Soap

LanguageMalachi Chapter 3, Verse 2
CebuanoApan kinsa ang makapabilin sa adlaw sa iyang pag-anhi? ug kinsa ang mangatubang kong siya mopakita na? kay siya sama sa kalayo sa magtutunaw, ug sama sa sabon sa manlalaba:
CroatianAli tko æe podnijeti dan njegova dolaska i tko æe opstati kad se on pojavi? Jer on je kao oganj ljevaèev i kao lužina bjelioèeva.
DanishMen hvo kan udholde den Dag, han kommer, og hvo kan stå, når han kommer til Syne? Han er jo som Metalsmelterens Ild og Tvætternes Lud.
DutchMaar wie zal den dag Zijner toekomst verdragen, en wie zal bestaan, als Hij verschijnt? Want Hij zal zijn als het vuur van een goudsmid, en als zeep der vollers.
FinnishMutta kuka kestää hänen tulemisensa päivän, ja kuka voi pysyä, kun hän ilmestyy? Sillä hän on niinkuin kultasepän tuli ja niinkuin pesijäin saippua.
FrenchQui pourra soutenir le jour de sa venue? Qui restera debout quand il paraîtra? Car il sera comme le feu du fondeur, Comme la potasse des foulons.
GermanWer wird aber den Tag seiner Zukunft erleiden können, und wer wird bestehen, wenn er wird erscheinen? Denn er ist wie das Feuer eines Goldschmieds und wie die Seifen der Wäscher.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariTetapi siapa dapat tahan pada hari TUHAN datang dan menampakkan diri-Nya? Sebab Ia seperti api tukang pemurni logam, dan seperti sabun tukang penatu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaTetapi siapa gerangan akan menderita hari kedatangan-Nya? Dan siapa tahan berdiri, apabila kelihatanlah Ia? Karena Iapun seperti api pandai emas dan seperti sabun benara!
ItalianChi sopporterà il giorno della sua venuta? Chi resisterà al suo apparire? Egli è come il fuoco del fonditore e come la lisciva dei lavandai.
MaoriA ko wai e u i te ra e tae mai ai ia? ko wai hoki e tu, ina puta mai ia? e rite ana hoki ia ki te ahi a te kaitahi para, ki te mea horoi a te kaihoroi:
NorwegianMen hvem kan utholde den dag han kommer, og hvem kan bli stående når han lar sig se? For han er som en smelters ild og som tvetteres lut.
PortugueseMas quem suportará o dia da sua vinda? e quem subsistirá, quando ele aparecer? Pois ele será como o fogo de fundidor e como o sabão de lavandeiros;   
RumanianCine va putea sq sufere knsq ziua venirii Lui? Cine va rqmknea kn picioare cknd Se va arqta El? Cqci El va fi ca focul topitorului, wi ca lewia nqlbitorului.
Spanish¿Quién podrá resistir el día de su venida? o ¿quién podrá mantenerse en pie cuando él se manifieste? Porque él es como fuego purificador y como lejía de lavanderos.
SwedishMen vem kan uthärda hans tillkommelses dag, och vem kan bestå, när han uppenbarar sig? Ty han skall vara såsom en guldsmeds eld och såsom valkares såpa.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Soap

Derivations

Words beginning with "soap": soapbark, soapbarks, soapberries, soapberry, soapbox, soapboxes, soaped, soaper, soapers, soapier, soapiest, soapily, soapiness, soapinesses, soaping, soapless, soaplike, soaps, soapstone, soapstones, soapsuds, soapwort, soapworts, soapy. (additional references)

Words ending with "soap": sandsoap. (additional references)

Words containing "soap": sandsoaps. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Soap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aosp, Oadp, oap, osai, Osep, Oshap, saap, sapa, sapo, saqp, seap, shoap, sipa, sloap, smap, soa, soab, soaf, soan, soapa, soape, soaq, soax, soaz, soeb, soiv, somp, sooa, sopa, sopad, sopp, sorp, soupa, souq, soxa, soza, srap, ssap, stap, stopa, woap, zoap, zoip. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Soap"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "soap" (pronounced sō"p)
2-ō" pcope, dope, elope, grope, hope, lope, mope, nope, pope, rope, scope, slope, tope.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Soap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-o-p-s"

-1 letter: asp, ops, pas, sap, sop, spa.

-2 letters: as, op, os, pa, so.

 Words containing the letters "a-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: apods, capos, dopas, opahs, opals, paseo, praos, proas, psoae, psoai, psoas, sapor, soaps, soapy, spado.

 

+2 letters: adopts, appose, aprons, aslope, campos, capons, coapts, copals, copras, galops, jalops, kapoks, koppas, nopals, okapis, operas, paeons, pagods, pantos, pareos, pargos, parols, parous, parson, parvos, paseos, pastor, pathos, patios, patois, payors, pharos, pianos, poisha, polars, polkas, pookas, poppas, posada, postal, potash, saloop, sannop, sapors, sapota, sapote, sapour, soaped, soaper, sporal, upsoar, vapors, yapoks, yapons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Bible Trace
19. Abbreviations
20. Acronyms
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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