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Definition: Soy |
SoyNoun1. A source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food. 2. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia. 3. Thin sauce made of fermented soy beans. 4. Most highly proteinaceous vegetable crop known. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Soybeans (Glycine max) are a high-protein legume (Family Fabaceae) grown as food for both humans and livestock.
Soybeans
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Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Glycine Species: max Binomial name Glycine max Soybeans may be boiled whole (in the green pod) and served with salt, often under the Japanese name edamame. Soybeans prepared this way are a popular local snack in Hawai'i where, like Japan, the bean and products made from the bean are a significant part of the diet.
The beans can be processed in a variety of ways. Common forms of soy (or soya) include soy meal (often used as animal feed), soy flour, tofu, textured vegetable protein (TVP, which is made into a wide variety of vegetarian foods, some of them intended to imitate meat), tempeh, and vegetable oil. Soybeans are also the primary ingredient involved in the production of soy sauce (or shoyu). Many traditional dairy products have been imitated using soybeans, and products such as soy milk, soy yogurt and soy cream cheese are readily available in most supermarkets. These products have the same texture and appearance as milk-based ones, however soybeans do not naturally contain calcium (though soy products may be fortified with it). Most soy products must not be fed to infants, although specially designed soy infant formula has also been made in recent times. This formula has extra vitamins etc added to it to make it compatible with the infant's needs. In some cases, infants fed normal adult soy milk on a long-term basis have become extremely malnourished and even died.
Soybeans are also used in industrial products including oils, soap, cosmetics, resins, plastics, inks, solvents, and biodiesel.
Soybeans are native to southeast Asia, but 45 percent of the world's soybean acreage, and 55 percent of production, is in the United States. The US produced 75 million metric tons of soybeans in 2000 of which more than one-third was exported. Other leading producers are Brazil, Argentina, China, and India. Much of the US production is either fed to animals or exported, though US consumption of soy by people has been increasing. Soy oil makes up 80% of the edible oil consumption in the U.S.
Soybeans are one of the crops that are being genetically modified, and GMO soybeans are being used in an increasing number of products.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soybean."
Synonyms: SoySynonyms: soja (n), soja bean (n), soy sauce (n), soya (n), soya bean (n), soyabean (n), soybean (n), soybean plant (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Soy |
| English words defined with "soy": brown sauce ♦ Carver, Chinese brown sauce, chop suey ♦ George Washington Carver ♦ soy sauce, sukiyaki ♦ teriyaki ♦ Worcester sauce, Worcestershire, Worcestershire sauce. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "soy": biochanin A ♦ Genistein. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Soy" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (am, I am), Turkish (ancestor, ancestors, ancestry, birth, breed, cion, extraction, family, flesh and blood, genealogy, lineage, noble, offshoot, parentage, pedigree, phylo-, posterity, progeny, race, stirpes, stirps, stock, strain). |
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Screenplays | Uncle Bernie has to give me soy cheese because regular cheese gives me diarrhea (The Bernie Mac Show; writing credit: Marc Abrams; Michael Benson) | |
Lyrics | Soy capitan ("La Bamba"; performing artist: Ritchie Valens) Yo no soy marinero ("La Bamba"; performing artist: Ritchie Valens) Y suenas que soy tuyo (Spanish Guitar; performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | De América soy hijo... y a ella me debo (1972) Yo soy chicano (1972) ¿Quién soy yo? (1970) Soy leyenda (1967) Yo no soy un asesino (1963) | |
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 | Brucella spp. Colony Characteristics: A. Fastidious, usually not visible at 24h. B. Grows slowly on most standard laboratory media (e.g. sheep blood, chocolate and trypticase soy agars). Pinpoint, smooth, entire translucent, non-hemolytic at 48h. Credit: CDC. |  | Trypticase soy agar plate culture of Proteus mirabilis showing Dienes's reaction. Credit: CDC. |
 | A diet rich in soy and whey protein, found in products such as soy milk and low-fat yogurt, has been shown to reduce breast cancer incidence in rats. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb.. |  | Soy Un Campeon Al Natural : Semana De Prevencion De Adiccion A Drogas Y Abuso De Alcohol. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Tobacco, corn and soy beans planted near farm home up Frozen Creek. Near Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Auto-retrato" by Laura Giraudo Commentary: "Hola, soy yo." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Eating soy can improve cholesterol levels. (references) | |
Soy contains plant estrogens currently under study. (references) | ||
Milk or soy allergies in infants can develop within days to months of birth. (references) | ||
Business | This directive states that all products/additives made from genetically modified corn or soy are subject to the novel food directive, even if the crop species were approved for trading before the novel food directive took effect. (references) | |
Economic History | Tanzania | Soy bean oil has gained popularity in the country due to its calorific value. (references) |
Chile | Chile's food-processing industry is using soy protein in many prepared foods. (references) | |
Tanzania | Best prospects for agricultural goods are corn (maize), soy bean oil, and wheat. (references) | |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | The applied tariff on soy protein concentrate is 20 percent. (references) |
Trade | Moldova | WESTNIS has 50 percent of the company's equity and purchased Massey Ferguson combines for harvesting peas, barley, wheat, soy, beans, sunflower, and corn, as well as bailer for straw. (references) |
Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) | |
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Andrew Weil | Well, you know, if you've got hormone receptor positive breast cancer, I would say to err on the side of caution, I would not eat soy. I think that we don't know enough, but I would be cautious there. |
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| "Soy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.05% of the time. "Soy" is used about 101 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 (singular) | 95.05% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.95% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 101 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "soy": Hydrolyzed Soy Protein ♦ soy bean ♦ soy beans ♦ soy flour ♦ Soy Isoflavones ♦ Soy Lecithin ♦ Soy milk ♦ Soy products ♦ Soy Protein Extract ♦ Soy Proteins ♦ soy sauce. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "soy": soy-based, soy-sauce. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
soy | 738 | soy sauce | 72 |
soy candle | 500 | soy wax candle | 72 |
soy milk | 475 | benefit of soy | 69 |
soy protein | 326 | soy isoflavones | 65 |
soy product | 235 | soy lecithin | 61 |
cereal flax soy | 227 | soy flour recipe | 61 |
revival soy | 181 | soy menopause | 58 |
soy flour | 140 | soy protein powder | 58 |
yo soy betty la fea | 113 | soy protein isolate | 56 |
soy wax | 107 | soy food | 54 |
soy nut | 102 | cereal flax seed soy | 44 |
silk soy milk | 100 | benefit of soy milk | 43 |
cereal flax granola soy zoe | 100 | silk soy | 43 |
soy bean | 94 | natural soy candle | 35 |
soy milk maker | 92 | gitano soy | 35 |
cereal flax soy zoe | 87 | scented soy candle | 34 |
flax soy zoe | 84 | soy formula | 33 |
soy recipe | 83 | recipe soy milk | 32 |
soy allergy | 80 | soy ice cream | 32 |
flax soy | 76 | yo soy sam | 31 |
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| Language | Translations for "soy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sojë (soya, soya bean, soybean), salcë soje. (various references) | |
Arabic | صلصة فول الصويا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | соя (soy bean, soya, soya bean). (various references) | |
Chinese | 大豆 (soya, soybean). (various references) | |
Czech | sója (soya). (various references) | |
Danish | sojasauce (soy sauce). (various references) | |
Dutch | TSA (Trypticase Soy Agar), Trijpticase Soy Agar (Trypticase Soy Agar), kedelee-topboorder (soy bean root miner), kedelee-stengel boorder (soy bean fly, soy bean stem miner, soya miner), katjangvliegje (bean fly, bean miner, french bean fly, soy bean fly, soy bean stem miner, soya miner). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sojfaboj (soy beans). (various references) | |
Finnish | soija. (various references) | |
French | soya, soja (soya, soybean), sauce de soya. (various references) | |
German | Soja (soya). (various references) | |
Greek | σόγια (soya), είδοσ κινέζικησ ψαροσάλτσασ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szójabab (soy bean, soya, soya bean, soya-bean, soy-bean). (various references) | |
Italian | soia (soya). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 下地 (aptitude, elementary knowledge of, first coat of plastering, foundation, grounding in, groundwork, inclination, prearrangement, signs, spadework, symptoms). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | したじ (aptitude, elementary knowledge of, first coat of plastering, foundation, grounding in, groundwork, inclination, prearrangement, signs, spadework, symptoms). (various references) | |
Korean | 간장 (soya). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | soja (soya, soybean), molho de soja picante (soybean). (various references) | |
Russian | соевый соус. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | soja sos, soja (soy bean, soya, soya bean, soybean). (various references) | |
Spanish | soya (soya), soja (soya, soybean), semilla de soja (soya). (various references) | |
Swedish | soyabaserad (soy-based), sojasås (soy sauce, soya sauce), sojaminerarfluga (soy bean fly, soy bean stem miner, soya miner), sojabladlus (soy bean aphid), sojabaserad (soy-based), sojabönvecklare (soy bean moth, soy bean pod moth), javanesisk bönstjälkminerarfluga (soy bean root miner). (various references) | |
Tagalog | toyo (soy sauce), adobong (boiled in vinegar and soy sauce). (various references) | |
Thai | ถั่วเหลือง (soybean), ซอสถั่วเหลือง. (various references) | |
Turkish | soya salçası, soya fasulyesi (soya, soya bean, soybean), soya (soya, soya bean, soybean). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | соєвий соус, соя (soya, soybean). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tương, đậu nành (soja, soya, soya-bean). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Agromyza sojae, Aphis glycines, Asphondylia, Cydia glycinivorella, Grapholitha glycinivorella, Laspeyresia glycinivorella, Leguminivora glycinivorella, Melanagromyza dolichostigma, Melanagromyza sojae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "soy": soya, soyas, soybean, soybeans, soymilk, soymilks, soys, soyuz, soyuzes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "soy": paduasoy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "soy": paduasoys. (additional references) | |
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"Soy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asoi, asoy, asoya, eoy, esjoy, esoy, Estoy, Ioy, osi, ossy, osu, osy, oy, qsy, saey, Sayf, sayi, sayo, sayy, scoy, scy, sevy, Seym, sezy, shoy, shoyu, sivy, siy, sloy, smoy, smy, soay, sody, soey, sof, sofy, sogy, soi, soig, soiv, soix, soj, soly, somy, sony, sooi, soq, Soryu, soty, sov, sowy, soxy, soyd, soye, soyo, soys, soyt, soyx, soz, sso, sucy, suey, sui, suie, suky, sumy, susy, suy, swy, sxy, sy, syo, syy, voy, yoy, zey, ziy, zoh, zoi, zoie, zoj, zoy, zoyd, zoye, zyo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "oy": Cloy, Foy, Loy, Poy, Stroy, troy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: os, oy, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: boys, cosy, coys, foys, goys, hoys, joys, nosy, oyes, posy, rosy, soya, soys, sybo, toys, yobs, yods, yoks, yows. | |
+2 letters: bosky, bossy, bousy, boyos, brosy, buoys, cloys, cosey, donsy, goosy, gorsy, gyros, horsy, hoyas, hypos, hyson, joeys, kayos, lossy, lousy, mayos, mosey, mossy, mousy, noisy, nosey, obeys, odyls, ofays, okays, oyers, ploys, poesy, polys, popsy, potsy, prosy, ryots, savoy, sepoy, showy, shoyu, sloyd, smoky, snowy, soapy, soddy, softy, soggy, sonly, sonny, sonsy, sooey, sooty, sophy, soppy, sorry, soupy, soyas, soyuz, stogy, stony, story, stroy, synod, sysop, toyos, troys, typos, tyros, yocks, yodhs, yogas, yoghs, yogis, yokes, yolks, yonis, yores, yours, youse, yowes, yowls. | |
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