Soup vs Dip - What's the difference?
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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 lower section of a road or geological feature.
Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
* Glover
A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
A dip stick.
A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
(colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
* 1906 , Fred L. Boalt, "
A sauce for dipping.
(geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
(archaic) A dipped candle.
To lower into a liquid.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
* Coleridge
(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
To lower a light's beam.
To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
To immerse for baptism.
* Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer
To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
* Milton
To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
* Dryden
To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out .
To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
* L'Estrange
To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
* Dryden
To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
As nouns the difference between soup and dip
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 dip is .As a verb soup
is or soup can be (uncommon) to feed: to provide with soup or a meal.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.
- (Wyclif)
- (Camden)
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic wordsdip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dippen, from (etyl) dyppan, from (etyl) , Dutch dopen, German taufen.Noun
(en noun)- There is a dip in the road ahead.
- the dip of oars in unison
- I'm going for a dip before breakfast.
The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633
- The Moocher was a "dip " in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.
- This onion dip is just scrumptious.
- (Marryat)
Derived terms
* lucky dipVerb
(dipp)- Dip your biscuit into your tea .
- He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.
- The sun's rim dips ; the stars rush out.
- Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
- “The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”
- The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
- (Fuller)
- during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.
- A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.
- He was dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
- to dip''' water from a boiler; to '''dip out water
- Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.
- Live on the use and never dip thy lands.
- Strata of rock dip .