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Ice vs Soup - What's the difference?

ice | soup |

As nouns the difference between ice and soup

is that ice is while 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 verb soup is

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

ice

English

Noun

(wikipedia ice)
  • (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
  • * 1882 , Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, The Freezing of a Salt Lake
  • It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
  • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
  • (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
  • (uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form.
  • (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
  • (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
  • (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
  • (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of methamphetamine.
  • (uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
  • * 2006 , CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
  • The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice . They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.

    Derived terms

    * anchor ice * arena ice * black ice * brash ice * break the ice * choc ice * cold as ice * cut no ice * de-ice * dead ice * drift ice * dry ice * ice age * ice ax * ice axe * ice bag * ice barrier * ice bath * ice bear * ice blue * ice boat * ice breaker * ice bucket * ice cap / icecap * ice chest * ice cider * ice-cold * ice cream * ice cube * ice dam * ice dancing * ice diving * ice dwarf * icedrop * ice field * ice fish * ice fishing * ice floe * ice fog * ice foot * ice fractal * ice hockey * ice jam * ice kachang * ice lolly * ice luge * ice milk * ice needle * ice nucleus * ice-out * ice pack * ice palace * ice pellet * ice pick * ice plant * ice point * ice pop * ice queen * ice racing * ice resurfacer * ice rink * ice scour * ice scraper * ice sculpture * ice sheet * ice shelf * ice show * ice skate * ice skating * ice storm * ice water * ice wedge * ice wine * ice worm * ice yacht * ice yachting * iceball * iceberg * iceblink * iceblock * icebound * icefall * icehouse * iceless * icelike * icemaker * iceman * icemelt * icequake * icescape * iceteroid * icetray * iceward * iceways * icy * Italian ice * negative ice * on thin ice * pack ice * pancake ice * polar ice * sea ice * sell ice to Eskimos * slob ice * spin ice * stink on ice * water ice

    Verb

    (ic)
  • To cool with ice, as a beverage.
  • To become ice, to freeze.
  • (slang): To murder.
  • To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
  • (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
  • Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
  • (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
  • If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.

    Derived terms

    * ice over * ice up

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    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)