SOP

Definition: SOP

SOP

Transitive verb

1. To steep or dip in any liquid.

2. A thing of little or no value.

3. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.

4. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SOP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Bible

Literature

Mining

Slang

Slang in 1811

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

SOP

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

Food

Mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet.

Fool

Child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.

Inattention

Call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head; disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider, fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus.

Motive

Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook.

Bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus.

Reward

Indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.

Smallness

Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: SOP

Albanian (bung, height, rib), Dutch (gravy, lather, sauce), Indonesian (soup), Scottish (a wisp, loose bundle of straw, wisp).

Books

• Designation of Aicpa Guide and Statement of Position (Sop 81-1 on Contractor Accounting and Sop 81-2 Concerning Hospital-Related Organizations) (reference)

• Fan Hai Phrungni Mai Mi Sop (reference)

• How to Develop and Maintain a Public Safety Communications Center Sop Manual (reference)

• How to Review and Redesign Sop Systems: Facilitator's Manual ((Good Practices Training Ser.)) (reference)

• Paul Gauguin the Primitive Sop (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Sop (reference)

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and make a sop of him.

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Economic History

Uzbekistan

SMEs have grown from a mere one percent of GDP in 1991 to 38% in 2000; the government hopes that SMEs will provide the necessary job growth to sop up excess labor from heavy industry and agriculture. (references)

Political Economy

Slovak Rep

Slovakia held parliamentary elections in September 1998, and a coalition government composed of the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK), Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), Party of Civic Understanding (SOP) and Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK) was able to defeat the previous government composed of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), Slovak National Party (SNS) and the Association of Slovak Workers (ZRS). Election results gave the HZDS 43 seats in parliament, the SDK 42 seats, the SDL 23 seats, the SMK 15 seats, the SNS 14 seats and the SOP 13 seats. (references)

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

Expressions using "SOP": milk sop ♦ put a sop into the pan ♦ sop for Cerberus ♦ sop to cerberus ♦ sop up ♦ sour sop ♦ sweet sop ♦ throw a sop to ♦ throw a sop to Cerberus. Additional references.

Ending with "SOP": Mezzo-sop, milk-sop, Sweet-sop.

Albanian

thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, imbibe, immerse, inhale, nipple, pull at, snuff, soak, soak up, suck, suck in, take up), llaç (mortar, plaster, stucco), bukë e njomur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غميسة, ‏غمس (dip, dipping, dunk, steep, submersion), ‏عطينة, ‏خبز مبلل بلبن, ‏رشوة (bribe, bribery, corruption, kickback), ‏داهن (adulate, blandish, butter up, cajole, flatter, flattering, sweet talk, sweeten). (various references)

Bulgarian 

потопявам (immerse, inundate, send down, sink, submerge, submerse, swamp, wreck), попара (pap, sops). (various references)

Chinese 

� �准�"�作程序 (sops). (various references)

Czech

máèený chléb, cumel (pacifier), úplatek (backhander, bribe, graft, inducement), šidítko (comforter, pacifier). (various references)

Danish

sukkeræble (caneel-apple, custard apple, sugar apple, sweet sop), sød annona (caneel-apple, custard apple, sugar apple, sweet sop), pigget annona (sour sop). (various references)

Dutch

zuurzak (sour sop), kaneelappel (caneel-apple, custard apple, sugar apple, sweet sop, sweetsop), flesappel (bullocks heart, custard apple, sour sop). (various references)

Farsi 

غذای مایع , ترید, خیساندن (Drench, Imbibe, Poach, Soak, Steep), خیس (Drunk, Rainy, Sodden, Soggy, Soppy, Wet), جذب کردن (Absorb, Amuse, Attract, Imbibe, Magnet, Sponge), ابگوشت (Bouillon, Broth, Cullis, Gravy, Soup), شیر (Lion, Milk). (various references)

French

tremper (soak, sodden), pot-de-vin, pain trempé du lait, mouillette, essuyer, amadouer (soothe). (various references)

German

pflaster (adhesive bandage, cobbles, pavement, plaster, plasters, road surface, sticking plaster), eingetunktes brotstück, eine flüssigkeit aufnehmen, beschwichtigungsmittel. (various references)

Greek 

έμβαμμα, βούτημα (sippet), βουτώ (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, pick pockets, pinch, plunge, steal, steep, submerge, submerse, take a dive), μουσκεμένο ψωμί, πραϋντικό (palliative), εμβρέχω (imbrue, soak, souse, steep), δόλωμα (bait, decoy, lure). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרות (drench, immerse, saturate, soak, souse, steep), לחם שרוי ב� וזל, ל�"טביל (dip, douse, immerse), ל�"רוות (irrigate, saturate, souse, water), ל�"ספי�' (impregnate, soak, steep), שוח�" (bribe, bribery, graft, payola). (various references)

Hungarian

mártogat (to dunk, to sop), levesbe áztatott kenyér, állandó érvényû utasítás (standing operating procedure). (various references)

Italian

contentino. (various references)

Manx

thummey (dip, dive, douse, duck; diving, ducking, immerse, immersion, lunge, pitch, plunge, soak, steep, steeping, submerge, submersion). (various references)

Pig Latin

opsay

Portuguese

sopa (bouillon, pottage, sippet, soup), peita (subornation), oferta propiciatória, ficar numa sopa, ficar encharcado (dunk), fazer sopas de, ensopar (drown, dunk, imbrue, imbue, soak). (various references)

Romanian

suge (absorb, bib, booze, guzzle, suck, suckle), se înmuia (relent, soften, sponge), muia (bathe, dip, douse, liquefy, ret, soak, steep, thaw, wet), dar (and, bestowal, bounty, but, consequently, dowry, endowment, genius, gift, grant, hence, however, pledge, present, still, yet), cadou (bounty, gift, pledge, present, presentation), bucatã de pâine muiatã. (various references)

Russian 

кусок хлеба (piece of bread), взятка (backhander, baksheesh, boodle, bribe, cumshaw, douceur, fix, golden key, graft, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, rake off, silver key), пропитывать хлеб. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sitnica (doit, jot, pennywort, trifle, whatnot, what-not), upiti (absorb, imbibe, soak, soak up), umočiti (dip, immerse), umočeno parče (sippet). (various references)

Spanish

sopa (pottage, soup), compensación (amends, clearance, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quid pro quo, quittance, recoupment, redress, reparation, requital, satisfaction, setoff, trade off, trim). (various references)

Swedish

tröst (comfort, consolation, reassurance, solace), mähä, doppad brödbit. (various references)

Thai

สิ่งปลอบใจ (solace). (various references)

Turkish

suya bandırmak, sus payı (hush money), yemeğin suyuna banmak, tirit (sippet), rüşvet (backhander, boodle, bribe, bribery, corruption, douceur, graft, inducement, kickback, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, pie), bandırmak (dip, dip up, Dunk), ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet). (various references)

Ukrainian

умочувати, убирати (absorb, clothe), щось просочене рідиною, хабар (boodle, bribe, brokage, douceur, gratification, gratuity, payola, rake off, sugarplum, swag), шматочок (morsel, nub, nubble, scrap), промокати (soak up). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mẩu bánh mì thả v� o nước xúp vật đút lót vật cho để thưởng. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "SOP": sopaipilla, sopaipillas, sopapilla, sopapillas, soph, sophies, sophism, sophisms, sophist, sophistic, sophistical, sophistically, sophisticate, sophisticated, sophisticatedly, sophisticates, sophisticating, sophistication, sophistications, sophistries, sophistry, sophists, sophomore, sophomores, sophomoric, sophs, sophy, sopite, sopited, sopites, sopiting, sopor, soporiferous, soporiferousness, soporiferousnesses, soporific, soporifics, sopors, sopped, soppier, soppiest, soppiness, soppinesses, sopping, soppy, soprani, sopranino, sopraninos, soprano, sopranos, sops. (additional references)

Words ending with "SOP": hyssop, milksop, soursop, sweetsop, sysop, winesop. (additional references)

Words containing "SOP": anthroposophies, anthroposophy, basophil, basophile, basophiles, basophilia, basophilias, basophilic, basophils, chrysophyte, chrysophytes, chrysoprase, chrysoprases, crossopterygian, crossopterygians, drosophila, drosophilae, drosophilas, esophageal, esophagi, esophagus, esophaguses, gastroesophageal, glossopharyngeal, glossopharyngeals, gymnosophist, gymnosophists, gypsophila, gypsophilas, hyssops, isopach, isopachs, isophotal, isophote, isophotes, isopiestic, isopleth, isoplethic, isopleths, isopod, isopodan, isopodans, isopods, isoprenaline, isoprenalines, isoprene, isoprenes, isoprenoid, isopropyl, isopropyls, isoproterenol. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SOP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aop, asop, bspos, eop, esoo, Isop, ispo, Osep, osp, Ospf, sapp, saqp, scop, scopf, shp, slp, snop, sof, soj, somp, soo, sopa, sopi, sopp, sopt, soq, sorp, sov, soz, spf, sph, spoa, spog, spoi, spox, spp, srop, sso, subp, sulp, supi, supu, svp, syp, tsop, tsup, vop, zoop, zop, zup. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ops.

-1 letter: op, os, so.

+1 letter: bops, cops, epos, fops, hops, kops, lops, mops, oops, opes, opts, opus, peso, piso, pods, pois, pols, poms, pons, pops, pose, posh, post, posy, pots, pows, pros, scop, shop, slop, soap, soph, sops, soup, spot, stop, swop, tops, wops.

+2 letters: apods, capos, chops, clops, comps, coops, copes, copse, corps, coups, crops, dipso, dopas, dopes, dorps, drops, estop, expos, flops, glops, goops, gorps, hoops, hopes, hypos, knops, knosp, kophs, loops, lopes, loups, mopes, opahs, opals, opens, opsin, ouphs, paseo, peons, pepos, pesos, pesto, phons, phots, pions, pious, pisco, pisos, plods, plops, plots, plows, ploys, pocks, poems, poesy, poets, poise, pokes, poles, polis, polls, polos, polys, pomes, pomps, ponds, pones, pongs, poods, poofs, poohs, pools, poons, poops, popes, popsy, pores, porks, porns, ports, posed, poser, poses, posit, posse, posts, potsy, poufs, pours, pouts, poxes, praos, proas, prods, profs, progs, proms, props, prose, proso, pross, prost, prosy, prows, psoae, psoai, psoas, qophs, repos, romps, ropes, roups, sapor, scoop, scope, scops, sepoy, shops, sloop, slope, slops, snoop, soaps, soapy, sophs, sophy, sopor, soppy, soups, soupy, spado, spode, spoil, spoke, spoof, spook, spool, spoon, spoor, spore, sport, spots, spout, stomp, stoop, stope, stops, stopt, stoup, stowp, strop, swoop, swops, sysop, topes, tophs, topis, topos, typos, updos, whops, woops.

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