Soap

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soap \Soap\, n. [OE. sope, AS. s[=a]pe; akin to D. zeep, G.
     seife, OHG. seifa, Icel. s[=a]pa, Sw. s?pa, Dan. s?be, and
     perhaps to AS. s[imac]pan to drip, MHG. s[imac]fen, and L.
     sebum tallow. Cf. {Saponaceous}.]
     A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather,
     and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by


     combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths,
     usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium,
     potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic,
     palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf.
     {Saponification}. By extension, any compound of similar
     composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent
     or not.
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     Note: In general, soaps are of two classes, hard and soft.
           Calcium, magnesium, lead, etc., form soaps, but they
           are insoluble and useless.
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                 The purifying action of soap depends upon the
                 fact that it is decomposed by a large quantity of
                 water into free alkali and an insoluble acid
                 salt. The first of these takes away the fatty
                 dirt on washing, and the latter forms the soap
                 lather which envelops the greasy matter and thus
                 tends to remove it.                --Roscoe &
                                                    Schorlemmer.
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     {Castile soap}, a fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled,
        made of olive oil and soda; -- called also {Marseilles
        soap} or {Venetian soap}.
  
     {Hard soap}, any one of a great variety of soaps, of
        different ingredients and color, which are hard and
        compact. All solid soaps are of this class.
  
     {Lead soap}, an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by
        saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; -- used
        externally in medicine. Called also {lead plaster},
        {diachylon}, etc.
  
     {Marine soap}. See under {Marine}.
  
     {Pills of soap} (Med.), pills containing soap and opium.
  
     {Potash soap}, any soap made with potash, esp. the soft
        soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil.
  
     {Pumice soap}, any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as
        silica, alumina, powdered pumice, etc., which assists
        mechanically in the removal of dirt.
  
     {Resin soap}, a yellow soap containing resin, -- used in
        bleaching.
  
     {Silicated soap}, a cheap soap containing water glass (sodium
        silicate).
  
     {Soap bark}. (Bot.) See {Quillaia bark}.
  
     {Soap bubble}, a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a
        film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something
        attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.
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              This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. --J. C.
                                                    Shairp.
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     {Soap cerate}, a cerate formed of soap, olive oil, white wax,
        and the subacetate of lead, sometimes used as an
        application to allay inflammation.
  
     {Soap fat}, the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses,
        etc., used in making soap.
  
     {Soap liniment} (Med.), a liniment containing soap, camphor,
        and alcohol.
  
     {Soap nut}, the hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the
        soapberry tree, -- used for making beads, buttons, etc.
  
     {Soap plant} (Bot.), one of several plants used in the place
        of soap, as the {Chlorogalum pomeridianum}, a California
        plant, the bulb of which, when stripped of its husk and
        rubbed on wet clothes, makes a thick lather, and smells
        not unlike new brown soap. It is called also {soap apple},
        {soap bulb}, and {soap weed}.
  
     {Soap tree}. (Bot.) Same as {Soapberry tree}.
  
     {Soda soap}, a soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps
        are all hard soaps.
  
     {Soft soap}, a soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and
        of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the
        lye from wood ashes. It is strongly alkaline and often
        contains glycerin, and is used in scouring wood, in
        cleansing linen, in dyehouses, etc. Figuratively,
        flattery; wheedling; blarney. [Colloq.]
  
     {Toilet soap}, hard soap for the toilet, usually colored and
        perfumed.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soap \Soap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soaped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Soaping}.]
     1. To rub or wash over with soap.
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     2. To flatter; to wheedle. [Slang]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  soap
       n 1: a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal
            fats
       2: money offered as a bribe
       3: street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: {scoop}, {max},
           {liquid ecstasy}, {grievous bodily harm}, {goop}, {Georgia
          home boy}, {easy lay}]
       v : rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
           [syn: {lather}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  193 Moby Thesaurus words for "soap":
     Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, abstergent, adulation,
     amole, antimasque, audience success, ballet, baptize, bar soap,
     bath, bath soap, bathe, blandishment, blarney, bomb,
     broadcast drama, brown soap, bunkum, burlesque show, butter,
     butter up, cajolement, cajolery, cathartic, charade, cleaner,
     cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream,
     cliff hanger, closet drama, cold cream, comedy drama, compliment,
     cream, critical success, daytime serial, dentifrice, depurant,
     detergent, dialogue, diuretic, documentary drama, douche, drama,
     dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue,
     emetic, enema, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza,
     eyewash, failure, fair words, fawning, flattery, flop, flush,
     flush out, gargle, gasser, get around, giveaway, grease, happening,
     hit, hit show, holystone, honey, honeyed phrases, honeyed words,
     improvisational drama, incense, irrigate, jolly, kid along, lather,
     launder, lave, lay it on, legitimate drama, lotion, masque,
     melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama,
     monologue, mop, mop up, morality, morality play, mouthwash,
     music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, nauseant, oil,
     opera, overdo it, pageant, palaver, panel show, pantomime,
     pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, play up to, playlet,
     powdered soap, praise, pretty lies, problem play, psychodrama,
     pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, quiz show, radio drama,
     review, revue, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub,
     scrub up, sensational play, serial, shampoo, show, shower, sitcom,
     situation comedy, sketch, skit, sluice, sluice out, soap opera,
     sociodrama, soft soap, soft-soap, soften up, solvent, spectacle,
     sponge, stage play, stage show, straight drama, string along,
     stroke, success, suspense drama, swab, sweet nothings, sweet talk,
     sweet words, sycophancy, synthetic detergent, syringe, tableau,
     tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama,
     television play, theater of cruelty, toivel, tooth powder,
     toothpaste, total theater, tub, variety show, vaudeville,
     vaudeville show, vehicle, wash, wash out, wash up, wheedling,
     word-of-mouth success, work
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SOAP
       Symbolic Optimizer and Assembly Program
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SOAP
       Simple Object Access Protocol (W3C, XML, HTML)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SOAP
       
          1.  {Simple Object Access Protocol}.
       
          2.  {Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program}.
       
          (2001-03-23)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Soap
     (Jer. 2:22; Mal. 3:2; Heb. borith), properly a vegetable alkali,
     obtained from the ashes of certain plants, particularly the
     salsola kali (saltwort), which abounds on the shores of the Dead
     Sea and of the Mediterranean. It does not appear that the
     Hebrews were acquainted with what is now called "soap," which is
     a compound of alkaline carbonates with oleaginous matter. The
     word "purely" in Isa. 1:25 (R.V., "throughly;" marg., "as with
     lye") is lit. "as with _bor_." This word means "clearness," and
     hence also that which makes clear, or pure, alkali. "The
     ancients made use of alkali mingled with oil, instead of soap
     (Job 9:30), and also in smelting metals, to make them melt and
     flow more readily and purely" (Gesenius).