Word Frequency
soap (səʊp
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Definitions
noun
- a cleaning or emulsifying agent made by reacting animal or vegetable fats or oils with potassium or sodium hydroxide. Soaps often contain colouring matter and perfume and act by emulsifying grease and lowering the surface tension of water, so that it more readily penetrates open materials such as textiles See also detergent related adjective saponaceous
- any metallic salt of a fatty acid, such as palmitic or stearic acid See also metallic soap
- (slang) flattery or persuasive talk (esp in the phrase soft soap)
- (informal) short for soap opera
- (US & Canadian, slang) money, esp for bribery
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See no soap
verb
- tr to apply soap to
- tr often foll by up (slang)
- to flatter or talk persuasively to
- (US & Canadian) to bribe
Derived Forms
ˈsoapless adjectiveˈsoapˌlike adjective
Word Origin
Old English sāpe; related to Old High German seipfa, Old French savon, Latin sāpōTranslations for 'soap'
- British English: soap Soap is a substance that you use with water for washing yourself or sometimes for washing clothes....a bar of lavender soap.səʊp NOUN
- Arabic: صَابُون
- Brazilian Portuguese: sabão
- Chinese: 肥皂
- Croatian: sapun
- Czech: mýdlo
- Danish: sæbe
- Dutch: zeep
- European Spanish: jabón
- Finnish: saippua
- French: savon
- German: Seife
- Greek: σαπούνι
- Italian: sapone
- Japanese: 石鹸
- Korean: 비누
- Norwegian: såpe
- Polish: mydło
- Portuguese: sabão
- Romanian: săpun săpunuri
- Russian: мыло
- Spanish: jabón
- Swedish: tvål
- Thai: สบู่
- Turkish: sabun
- Ukrainian: мило
- Vietnamese: xà phòng
Example Sentences Including 'soap'
And the soap opera, All My Children, wrote the Revlon Inc. cosmetics company into its plot for 25 episodes.Globe and Mail (2003)
Customers in seven major metropolitan areas could select a wide range of goods, from fruit and vegetables to soap powder.DOT.CON (2001)
I don't like to use insecticides so I've resorted to horticultural soap which you can buy from garden centres.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Let the Games Begin The soap opera is over - let the games begin.Irish Times (2002)
Prudence, amid shrieks from everyone round her, produced a tablet of toilet soap !Adrienne and the Chalet School
She wouldn't have bought soap like that in Turf Lodge, not on the Supplementary Benefit.Field of Blood
Some of the biggest names in the ITV soap are locked in discussions with bosses at Granada over new contracts.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Some people watched soap operas, she thought; others lived them.Miss Melville Regrets
The short and squat rigs make both flotillas look like a dwarf fleets of soap dishes and tea trays.Yachting Boating World (2004)
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