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Soc vs Sop - What's the difference?

soc | sop |

As nouns the difference between soc and sop

is that soc is sociology or social science while sop is something entirely soaked.

As initialisms the difference between soc and sop

is that soc is initialism of w:System-on-a-Chip|System-on-(a-)Chip|lang=en while SOP is initialism of State of Palestine|lang=en.

As a verb sop is

to steep or dip in any liquid.

soc

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science
  • (slang, countable) upper class youth
  • * 1967 , , The Outsiders , page 2:
    • We get jumped by the Socs . I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.
    Alternative forms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * sock, soke

    Noun

  • (UK, legal, obsolete) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
  • (UK, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
  • (UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.
    • Derived terms
    * soc and sac (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    sop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something entirely soaked.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The bounded waters / Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, / And make a sop of all this solid globe.
  • A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
  • * Bible, John xiii. 26
    • He it is to whom I shall give a sop , when I have dipped it.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
  • Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
  • * L'Estrange
    • All nature is cured with a sop .
  • A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
  • Gravy. (Appalachian)
  • (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Derived terms

    * sippet

    Verb

    (sopp)
  • To steep or dip in any liquid.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1928 , title = American Negro Folk-Songs , first = Newman Ivey , last = White , location = Cambridge , publisher = Harvard University Press , page = 227 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=WCuuV-kRe70C&pg=PA277&dq=sop , passage = When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land. }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 1945-12-27 , title = Sopping Bread May Be Done , first = Emily , last = Post , authorlink = Emily Post , newspaper = The Spokesman-Review , url = http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&id=snRWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5333,6920966 , passage = So again let me say that sopping bread into gravy can be done properly merely by putting a piece down on the gravy and then soaking it with the help of a knife and fork as though it were any other food. But taking a soft piece of bread and pushing it under the sauce with your fingers, submerging them as well as the bread, or even wiping the plate with it would be very bad manners indeed. }}

    Derived terms

    * sop up

    Anagrams

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