SOUP

Soup

Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm, that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with stock, juice, water, or another liquid. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth.

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soup

Noun

  1. 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.
  1. A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
  2. The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
  1. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
    1. Thick fog or cloud (also ).
    2. Nitroglycerin or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
    3. Dope (illicit drug, used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).
    4. Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
    5. 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
    6. An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
      1. The foamy portion of a wave.

Verb

  1. To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
  2. To be in trouble or in difficulty (often passive--cf. ).
  3. To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
  4. To sup or swallow.
  5. To breathe out.


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