English-Thai Dictionary

sop

N สิ่ง ปลอบใจ  siang-plob-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOP

n. 1. Anything steeped or dipped and softened in liquor, but chiefly something thus dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. Sops in win, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than win itself.
2. Any thing given to pacify; so called from the sop given to Cerberus, in mythology. Hence the phrase, to give a sop to Cerberus.

 

SOP

v.t.To steep or dip in liquor.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SOP

Sop, n. Etym: [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s to sup, to sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See Sup, v. t., and cf. Soup. ]

 

1. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. John xiii. 26. Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. Bacon. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Shak.

 

2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology. All nature is cured with a sop. L'Estrange.

 

3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs. ] P. Plowman. Sops in wine (Bot. ), an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine. Garlands of roses and sops in wine. Spenser. -- Sops of wine (Bot. ), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.

 

SOP

Sop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Sopping. ]

 

Defn: To steep or dip in any liquid.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

SOP

SOP ▶abbreviation Standard Operating Procedure.

 

sop

sop |säp sɑp | ▶noun 1 a thing given or done as a concession of no great value to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met: my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work. 2 a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce. ▶verb ( sops, sopping , sopped ) [ with obj. ] 1 (sop something up ) soak up liquid using an absorbent substance: he used some bread to sop up the sauce. 2 wet thoroughly; soak. ORIGIN Old English soppian ‘dip (bread ) in liquid, ’ sopp (noun ), probably from the base of Old English sūpan ‘sup. ’ Sense 1 (mid 17th cent. ) alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sop

sop |sɒp | ▶noun 1 a thing of no great value given or done as a concession to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met: my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work. 2 a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce. ▶verb ( sops, sopping, sopped ) [ with obj. ] (sop something up ) soak up liquid using an absorbent substance: he used some bread to sop up the sauce. • archaic wet thoroughly; soak. ORIGIN Old English soppian ‘dip (bread ) in liquid ’, sopp (noun ), probably from the base of Old English sūpan ‘sup ’. Sense 1 (mid 17th cent. ) alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus.

 

SOP

SOP ▶abbreviation Standard Operating Procedure.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sop

sop /sɑp |sɔp /名詞 C ｟非難して ｠〖通例単数形で 〗 «…に対して » 機嫌をとる物 ; «…への » 甘言 ; わいろ «to » ; ソップ 〘牛乳やスープに浸したパン切れなど 〙.動詞 ～s ; ～ped ; ～ping 他動詞 自動詞 (…を )浸す, びしょぬれにする (soak ).s ò p A ú p [ú p A ]A 〈水 牛乳など 〉を (布などで )吸い取る .