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soup | bean |

As a verb soup

is or soup can be (uncommon) to feed: to provide with soup or a meal.

As a noun soup

is or soup can be any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.

As a proper noun bean is

a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist william jackson bean (1863-1947).

soup

English

(wikipedia soup)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Etymology 2

    (1645) (etyl) soupe, from (etyl) souppe, sope, from . See also sop.

    Noun

  • Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
  • Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup .
  • * c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:
  • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
  • # (countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
  • # (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
  • (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
  • # (slang) Thick fog or cloud (also (pea soup)).
  • # (US, slang) Nitroglycerin or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
  • # (cant) Dope (illicit drug, used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).
  • # (photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
  • # (biology) Liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believe to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.
  • primordial soup
  • # An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
  • #* {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter I and X , passage=B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup' she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly ' in the soup .”}}
  • # (surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.
  • Derived terms
    * alphabet soup * beef soup * beer soup * bird's nest soup * bread soup * canned soup * chicken soup * condensed soup * cream soup * dessert soup * duck soup * egg droup soup * fish soup * French onion soup * fruit soup * in the soup * leek soup * lentil soup * miso soup * mock turtle soup * noodle soup * oxtail soup * pea soup * primordial soup * she-crab soup * soup bowl * soup du jour * souped-up * souper * souping * soup dumpling * soup fire * soup kitchen * soup legs * soup of the day * soup plate * soup's on * soup sandwich * soup to nuts * soup up * soupy * stone soup * tomato soup * vegetable soup * wine soup * winter melon soup * word soup
    Hyponyms
    * bisque * bouillon * broth * chowder * * cream soup * gazpacho * gruel * porridge * * summer soup *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
  • * 1904 October, East is East and West is West'', in ''The Vassar Miscellany , volume 34, number 1, page 236:
  • "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."
  • * (rfdate), Diza Sauers, Historama , page 152:
  • She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
  • * 2008 , C Mark Chapoton, A Tale of Two Iditarods , page 34:
  • I souped the dogs, and went in for a bite. I ended up going back out and making my pups a full meal, then went back in and pigged out myself.
  • To be in trouble or in difficulty (often passive--cf. (in the soup)).
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1922 , author=(James Joyce) , title=(Ulyssis) , section=II , passage=Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped .}}
  • (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
  • * 1970 December, in The Rotarian , volume 117, number 6, page 31:
  • That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping " her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children
  • * 1991 , Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page :
  • "Then perhaps it won't surprise you to learn Annie's taking over the Sunday social column," Roz said. "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."
  • * 1998 , Edward Gorman, Cold Blue Midnight :
  • And her camera position had been completely out of his sight. Satisfied that she'd gotten everything she'd needed - much more, in fact - she went back inside and got to work. Jill had souped her first photographs while she'd been on
  • * 2005 , Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: A Personal Approach , page 242:
  • By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.
  • (obsolete) To sup or swallow.
  • (Wyclif)
  • (obsolete) To breathe out.
  • (Camden)

    bean

    English

    (wikipedia bean)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seed pods.
  • * 2004 , T. N. Shivenanda, B. R. V. Iyengar, Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.)'', Ramdane Dris, S. Mohan Jain (editors), ''Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops , Volume 2: Plant Mineral Nutrition and Pesticide Management, page 79,
  • Beans' are a large group of leguminous vegetables that serve as a main source of proteins in human diet. This group comprises several species and some of them are Adzuki '''bean''' (''Vigna angularis''); Broad '''bean''' (''Vicia faba''); Cluster '''bean''' (''Cyamposis tetragonoloba''); French '''bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris );.
  • The large edible seed of such a plant.
  • The edible seed pod of such a plant.
  • The bean-like seed of certain other plants, especially coffee; coffee in the general.
  • An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
  • (slang) The head or brain.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1960
  • , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XI and XV , passage=I saw her quiver and kept a wary eye on the ginger ale bottle. But even if she had raised it and brought it down on [my] bean', I couldn't have been more stunned than I was by the words that left her lips.
    [...]
    Well, as I say, it was from his fertile '
    bean
    that the idea sprang.}}
  • (British, slang, archaic) A guinea coin.
  • (British, slang, usually in the negative) Money.
  • I haven't got a bean .
  • (slang) The clitoris.
  • * 2010 , Cynthia W. Gentry & Dana Fredst, What Women Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Secrets Women Wish Men Knew about Sex , Quiver (2010), ISBN 9781592333394, page 64:
  • For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean .
  • *
  • (software)
  • *{{quote-web, date = 2014-04-24
  • , title = JavaBeans: JavaBeans API , site = Wikipedia , url = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaBeans
  • JavaBeans_API
  • , accessdate = 2014-04-25 }}
  • *:„AppletInitializer Methods in this interface are used to initialize Beans that are also applets.“
  • *{{quote-web, year= 2010
  • , title = Class SelectionInList , site = Twister Data Framework , url = http://twisterdataframework.com/api/jgoodies-binding-2.2.1/com/jgoodies/binding/list/SelectionInList.html , accessdate = 2014-04-25 }}
  • *:„The SelectionInList uses three ValueModels to hold the list, the selection and selection index and provides bound bean properties for these models. You can access, observe and replace these ValueModels. This is useful to connect a SelectionInList with other ValueModels; for example you can use the SelectionInList's selection holder as bean channel for a PresentationModel. Since the SelectionInList is a ValueModel, it is often used as bean channel. See the Binding tutorial classes for examples on how to connect a SelectionInList with a PresentationModel.“
  • Derived terms

    * adsuki bean, aduki bean, adzuki bean, azuki bean * algaroba bean, algarroba bean * Anasazi bean * asparagus bean, asparagus-bean * baked beans * baking beans * BaseBean * bay bean * beach bean * bean aphid * bean aphis * bean bag, bean-bag, beanbag * bean ball, beanball * bean beetle * bean-belly * bean blight * bean bruchid * bean-brush * bean-butter * bean cake * bean caper, bean-caper * bean choke * bean chute * bean-cod * bean counter, bean-counter * bean-crake * bean curd * bean curve * bean dip * bean-dolphin * bean-eater * beaner * beanery * bean family * bean feast, bean-feast, beanfeast * bean-fed * bean-flicker * bean fly, bean-fly * bean goose, bean-goose * Beanhead * bean-hool, bean-hull * beanie * beanie baby / Beanie Baby * beanie key * bean iron ore * bean-king * * bean machine * bean masher * bean metal * bean-mouse * bean of St Ignatius * bean of Molucca * bean oil * bean paste * bean plant * bean-pole, beanpole * bean pot * Beanpot * bean salad * Bean Scripting Framework * bean seed fly * bean-shaped plasma * bean-shatter * BeanShell * bean shoot * bean-shooter * bean shot * bean-shot copper * bean-shouter * bean sprout * bean-stalk, beanstalk * bean-stick * bean-straw * bean thread noodles, bean threads * bean tostada * Beantown, Bean Town * bean tree, bean-tree * bean trefoil, bean-trefoil * bean-vine * bean wagon * bean weevil * bean-wood * beany * Bengal bean, Benghal bean * black bean * blackbean * black-eyed bean * black turtle bean * blue beans * bog bean * bogbean * borlotti bean * broad bean, broadbean * buck bean, buck-bean, buckbean * bullets and beans * bush bean, bush-bean * butter bean, butterbean * cacao bean * Calabar bean * calico bean * cannellini bean * carob bean * castor bean, castor-bean * castor-oil bean * ceci bean * chili beans * China bean * Chinese long bean * civet bean * cluster bean * cocoa bean * coffee bean * common bean * cool beans * coral bean * corona bean * cow bean * cowboy beans * cranberry bean * dragon tongue bean * djenkol bean * Dutch case-knife bean * dwarf bean * edible bean * Egyptian bean * English bean * English runner bean * Entity Bean * European bean * faba bean * fava bean * field bean * flageolet bean * flick the bean * Florida bean * Florida velvet bean * French bean, french bean * French filet bean * for beans * fresh bean * full of beans * garbanzo bean * gemsbuck beans * get beans * giant stock bean * give someone beans * goa bean * goa bean vine * great Northern bean * green bean * guar bean * guava bean * haricot bean * haricot vert bean * a hill of beans * hog's bean * horse bean, horsebean * hyacinth bean * ice-cream bean * Ignatius' bean * Indian bean * Italian flat bean * jack bean * JavaBean * java bean, java-bean * jelly bean, jellybean * jequirity bean * jering bean * jolly bean * jumby bean * jumping bean * Kentucky wonder bean * Kersting's bean * kidney bean * know beans about * know how many beans make five * Leichhardt's bean * lima bean * locust bean * long-bean * lupini bean * Lyon bean * Mackenzie bean * Madagascar bean * magotty bay bean * managed bean * Manila bean * marama bean, morama bean * marrow bean * mash bean * mat bean * May-bean * MBean * mescal bean, mescalbean * mesquite bean * Message-driven Bean * Mexican bean * Mexican bean beetle * Mexican jumping bean * Mexican yam bean * mini beans * Molucca bean * moong bean * moth bean * mung bean * mungo bean * navy bean * NetBeans * not care beans * not have a bean * not know beans * old bean * ordeal bean * pea bean * pichurim bean * pink bean * pinto bean * poison bean * pole bean, pole-bean * pork and bean * pork and beans * potato bean, potato-bean * prairie-bean * Price's potato-bean * Pythagorean bean * Queensland bean * red bean * red bean paste * refried beans * rice and beans * rice bean * Romano bean * runner bean * sacred bean * sand bean * scarlet-bean * scarlet runner bean * screw bean, screw-bean, screwbean * sea bean * seabean * sea green bean * Session Bean * shell bean * sieva bean * smoking bean * snail bean * snap bean * snuffbox bean * soja bean, soya bean, soy bean, soybean * soup beans * Spanish bean * speckled butter bean * spill the beans * St Ignatius' bean, St Ignatius's bean * stinking bean trefoil * string bean * stringless bean * sugar bean * sword bean * tepary bean * tick bean, tickbean * tonca bean, tonga bean, tonka bean, tonqua bean, tonquin bean * turtle bean * urd bean * vanilla bean * velvet bean * Walkman Bean * wax bean, waxbean * wax-pod bean * Welsh bean * white bean * wild bean * Windsor bean * winged bean * wolf bean * wonder bean * yam bean * Yankee bean * yard-long bean, yardlong bean * yellow bean

    Verb

  • (chiefly, baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.
  • The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1960
  • , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IX and XI , passage=Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning' that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker.
    [...]
    dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and '
    bean
    me with it.}}

    Anagrams

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