Soup vs Cake - What's the difference?
soup | cake |
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.
* 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:
# (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.
# 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.
(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:
* (rfdate), Diza Sauers, Historama , page 152:
* 2008 , C Mark Chapoton, A Tale of Two Iditarods , page 34:
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:
* 1991 , Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page :
* 1998 , Edward Gorman, Cold Blue Midnight :
* 2005 , Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: A Personal Approach , page 242:
(obsolete) To sup or swallow.
(obsolete) To breathe out.
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
A block of any of various dense materials.
* Dryden
(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake .
(slang) Money.
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
To form into a cake, or mass.
As verbs the difference between soup and cake
is that soup is or soup can be (uncommon) to feed: to provide with soup or a meal while cake is coat (something) with a crust of solid material or cake can be (uk|dialect|obsolete|intransitive) to cackle like a goose.As nouns the difference between soup and cake
is that 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 while cake is a rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.soup
English
(wikipedia soup)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
(1645) (etyl) soupe, from (etyl) souppe, sope, from . See also sop.Noun
- Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup .
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- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
- primordial soup
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 soupHyponyms
* bisque * bouillon * broth * chowder * * cream soup * gazpacho * gruel * porridge * * summer soup *Verb
(en verb)- "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."
- She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
- 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.
- 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
- "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."
- 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
- By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.
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- (Camden)
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic wordscake
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cake, from (etyl) , (l), and (l).Noun
- an oatmeal cake
- a johnnycake
- buckwheat cakes
- a cake of soap
- a cake of sand
- Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Usage notes
* In British usage, a (term) is distinct from a (term); the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.Derived terms
* a piece of cake * ague-cake * angel cake * angel food cake * ash-cake * ashcake * baked in the cake * Banbury cake * barm cake * Battenburg cake * batter-cake * battercake * beefcake * birthday cake * bridecake * bundt cake * cake bar * cake-bread * cake-eater * cake-fumbler * cakehole * cake-house * cakelet * cake-meal * cake mix * cake saffron * cake slice * cake tin * cake-urchin * cakes and ale * cakes and cheese * cakewalk * cakewalker * caking * caky * carcake * carrot cake * cattle-cake * cheesecake * cherry cake * chocolate cake * chocolate fudge cake * chocolate sponge cake * Christmas cake * coffee cake * coffeecake * corn-cake * cotton-cake * cream cake * cupcake * devil's food cake * Dundee cake * Eccles cake * every cake has its fellow * every cake has its make * every cake has its mate * fairy cake * fish cake * fishcake * flannel cake * friedcake * fruitcake * fudge cake * go like hot cakes * griddle-cake * have one's cake and eat it too * haver-cake * heart-cake * hoecake * Johnny cake * johnny cake * journey-cake * king cake * knead-cake * Land of Cakes * lardy cake * layer cake * linseed cake * Madeira cake * marble cake * nutcake * oatcake * oilcake * one's cake is dough * Pan-Cake * pancake * parliament-cake * pat-a-cake * patty-cake * plum-cake * pomfret-cake * Pontefract cake * pound cake * queencake * rape-cake * rice cake * rock cake * rose-cake * rout-cake * saffron cake * salt-cake * seed-cake * seedcake * sell like hot cakes * Shawnee cake * sheet cake * shortcake * simnel cake * singing cake * soul-cake * spice-cake * sponge cake * take the cake * teacake * tharf-cake * the cake is a lie * the icing on the cake * the national cake * tipsy cake * Twelfth-cake * Twelfth-night cake * upside-down cake * Victorian sponge cake * wedding cake * yellowcakeSynonyms
* (dessert) * (block) block * (easy task) see piece of cakeDescendants
* Dutch: (l), (l) (also (l), older also (l), (l)) * Faroese: (l) * German: (l) ** Serbo-Croatian: * Icelandic: (l) * Nauruan: (l) * Japanese: * Norwegian: (l) * Swedish: (l)See also
(attention) * biscuit * * brownie * bun * cruller * crumpet * dessert * donut * doughnut * * flapjack * frangipane * * gugelhupf * jumbal * koeksister * kruller * kuchen * kugelhopf * kugelhupf * ladyfinger * lamington * Linzertorte * madeleine * muffin * parkin * pastry * patisserie * petit four * pie * pikelet * pudding * rum baba * Sally Lunn * scone * sponge * Swiss roll * tart * torte * Victoria sponge * yumyumVerb
- His shoes are caked with mud.