Soup
[suːp] or [sup]
Definition
(noun.) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food.
(noun.) an unfortunate situation; 'we're in the soup now'.
(noun.) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup.
(verb.) dope (a racehorse).
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Definition
(n.) A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.
(v. t.) To sup or swallow.
(v. t.) To breathe out.
(v. t.) To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Broth.
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Definition
n. the nutritious liquid obtained by boiling meat or vegetables in stock—named from the chief ingredient as pea- tomato- vermicelli- hare- oxtail-soup &c.—ns. Soup′er a convert for the sake of material benefits; Soup′-kitch′en a place for supplying soup to the poor gratis or at a nominal price; Soup′-mai′gre a thin fish or vegetable soup originally for fast-days; Soup′-tick′et a ticket authorising the holder to receive soup at a soup-kitchen.—adj. Soup′y.
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To dream of soup, is a forerunner of good tidings and comfort. To see others taking soup, foretells that you will have many good chances to marry. For a young woman to make soup, signifies that she will not be compelled to do menial work in her household, as she will marry a wealthy man. To drink oyster soup made of sweet milk, there will be quarrels with some bad luck, but reconciliations will follow.
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Examples
- Try, said he; the soup is very good. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Elliston insisted, and the white soup made its appearance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I could ask old women about their rheumatisms and order half-a-crown's worth of soup for the poor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Nor did Dobbin try and convince him that Amelia's happiness was not centred in turtle-soup. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What is there remarkable about his soup-eating? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Revived by soup, Twemlow discourses mildly of the Court Circular with Boots and Brewer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He held up a soup-tin-shaped bomb, with a tape wrapping around a wire loop. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then when you are sick I will care for thee and make thee soups and clean thee and do all for thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The spoiling of meats and soups, and the souring of milk and preserves, are due to germs which, like those producing disease, can be destroyed by heat and by chemicals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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