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"SOAPS" is a plural of: soap. |
Date "SOAPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: SOAPS |
| English words defined with "SOAPS": bone fat, builder, built ♦ detergent builder ♦ Hard soap, hexachlorophene ♦ lather ♦ margaric acid, micelle ♦ napalm ♦ pennyroyal oil, Potash soap ♦ reinforced ♦ shampoo, soapsuds, Soda soap, sodium pyrophosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, spike lavender oil, spike oil, suds ♦ tall oil, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, tribasic sodium phosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, trisodium phosphate ♦ Washing fluid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SOAPS": asteroid hyalitis ♦ Bd oil, benson, Benson's disease, boiled oil ♦ CHEMICAL-COMPOUNDER HELPER, Cyclohexanols ♦ Fish Oils ♦ saponification agent, saponifying agent, smectic state ♦ Triclosan ♦ URENA LOBATA ♦ WASHER, HAND, WEIGHER-BULKER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.15% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.85% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| India | Godrej Soaps |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 resÃduos de FFDU de gorduras,banhas,sabões,detergentes,desinfectantes e cosméticas (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references) residuos del FFDU de grasas, jabones, detergentes, desinfectantes y cosméticos (detergents disinfectants and cosmetics, grease, waste from the MFSU of fats). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SOAPS": soapstone, soapstones, soapsuds. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SOAPS": sandsoaps. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SOAPS" (pronounced sō"ps) |
| 3 | -ō" p s | copes, elopes, hopes, Lopes, ropes, Scopes, slopes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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