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SOAPS

"SOAPS" is a plural of: soap.

Date "SOAPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)


Specialty Definition: SOAPS

DomainDefinition

Health

Sodium or potassium salts of long chain fatty acids. These detergent substances are obtained by boiling natural oils or fats with caustic alkali. Sodium soaps are harder and are used as topical anti-infectives and vehicles in pills and liniments; potassium soaps are soft, used as vehicles for ointments and also as topical antimicrobials. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SOAPS

English words defined with "SOAPS": bone fat, builder, builtdetergent builderHard soap, hexachlorophenelathermargaric acid, micellenapalmpennyroyal oil, Potash soapreinforcedshampoo, soapsuds, Soda soap, sodium pyrophosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, spike lavender oil, spike oil, sudstall oil, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, tribasic sodium phosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, trisodium phosphateWashing fluid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SOAPS": asteroid hyalitisBd oil, benson, Benson's disease, boiled oilCHEMICAL-COMPOUNDER HELPER, CyclohexanolsFish Oilssaponification agent, saponifying agent, smectic stateTriclosanURENA LOBATAWASHER, HAND, WEIGHER-BULKER. (references)

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Modern Usage: SOAPS

DomainUsage

Lyrics

And I've given up hope on the afternoon soaps (Too Much Time On My Hands; performing artist: STYX; writing credit: Tommy Shaw)

Movie/TV Titles

ABC's Hot Summer Soaps (1995)

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

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Commercial Usage: SOAPS

DomainTitle

References

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: SOAPS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Ask your doctor or nurse if you can use over-the-counter medicated creams or soaps. (references)

The skin around the vagina can also be sensitive to perfumed soaps, detergents, and fabric softeners. (references)

Precautions range from common sense practices like good hygiene (using mild soaps to keep the skin clean and brushing teeth twice a day) and good nutrition to elaborate measures to prevent all contact with infectious agents. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

Here domestically produced sunflower seeds are crushed for use in oil, food and soaps. (references)

Turkey

Demand for imported inedible tallow increased substantially since 1995 when there was a sizeable increase in processing capacity for soaps. (references)

Brazil

Due to the reduction of the IPI (Tax on Industrialized Products) , some products considered essential (soaps, shampoo, dental cream, i.e.) had a meaningful market growth. (references)

Political Economy

Dominica

The manufacture of soaps, toiletries, and cardboard boxes fell significantly during the year, while the production of higher valued dental cream rose by over 4 percent. (references)

Trade

Zambia

These apply on vegetable cooking oils and soaps. (references)

Spain

Milk products, margarine, chocolate and soaps have other, more technical labeling requirements. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: SOAPS

"SOAPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.15% of the time. "SOAPS" is used about 162 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 (plural)98.15%15924,860
Lexical Verb (-s form)1.85%3202,518
                    Total100.00%162N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: SOAPS

CountryName
India

Godrej Soaps

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SOAPS

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

cbs soaps.com

71

daytime soaps.com

8

cbs daytime soaps.com

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SOAPS

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

Danish

  

affald fra fremstilling,formulering,distribution og brug af fedt,smørelse,sæbe,detergenter,desinfektionsmidler og kosmetiske midler (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afval van bereiding,formulering,levering en gebruik van vetten,smeermiddelen,zepen,detergenten,desinfecterende middelen en kosmetische produkten (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references)

   

French

  

déchets provenant de la FFDU des corps gras,savons,détergents,désinfectants et cosmétiques. (various references)

   

German

  

Abfälle aus Herstellung,Zubereitung,Vertrieb und Anwendung(HZVA)von Fetten,Schmiermitteln,Seifen,Waschmitteln,Desinfektionsmitteln und Körperpflegemitteln (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απόβλητα από την Î Î"ΠΧ λιπών,λιπαντικών,σαπουνιών,απολυμαντικών και καλλυντικών (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rifiuti da PFFU di cere,grassi,saponi,detergenti,disinfettanti e cosmetici (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oapssay

   

Portuguese

  

resíduos de FFDU de gorduras,banhas,sabões,detergentes,desinfectantes e cosméticas (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

residuos del FFDU de grasas, jabones, detergentes, desinfectantes y cosméticos (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SOAPS

Derivations

Words beginning with "SOAPS": soapstone, soapstones, soapsuds. (additional references)

Words ending with "SOAPS": sandsoaps. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SOAPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: moaps, osas, Saos, shoap, soabs, soapa, soape, soays, sopa, sopad, soyas, zoap, zoas. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SOAPS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SOAPS" (pronounced sō"ps)
3-ō" p scopes, elopes, hopes, Lopes, ropes, Scopes, slopes.

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

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Anagrams: SOAPS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: psoas.

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

-1 letter: asps, ossa, pass, saps, soap, sops, spas.

-2 letters: asp, ass, ops, pas, sap, sop, sos, spa.

-3 letters: as, op, os, pa, so.

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

+1 letter: paseos, sapors.

 

+2 letters: apposes, compass, gaposis, outpass, parsons, passado, passion, pastors, petasos, posadas, postals, saloops, sannops, sapotas, sapotes, sapours, sapsago, scapose, soapers, sponsal, spousal, upsoars.

 

+3 letters: adiposes, adiposis, airposts, alphosis, anopsias, apoapsis, apodoses, apodosis, apostasy, apostils, apostles, apposers, aspersor, calypsos, dapsones, dashpots, deposals, disposal, escalops, espartos, espousal, exposals, gestapos, haploses, haplosis, hopsacks, impastos, isopachs, nonpasts, outspans, overpass, paesanos, paisanos, papooses, parasols, passados, passbook, passions, passover, passport, password, pathoses, peascods, personas, pharoses, plasmons, podestas, postages, postbags, postbase, potashes, potassic, presoaks, prosaism, prosaist, prosomas, protases, protasis, psammons, reposals, responsa, sandsoap, sapajous, saponins, saporous, saprobes, sapsagos, sapwoods, scallops, scopulas, seaports, senopias, sepalous, shallops, shampoos, shoepacs, shophars, sinopias, snapshot, snowcaps, soapiest, soapless, soapsuds, sopranos, spacious, spadones, sparoids, sparrows, spathose, sporrans, spousals, stopgaps, supposal, symposia, teashops, topmasts, topsails.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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