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Sop

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Noun

1. sop, sops

piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid

2. sop

a concession given to mollify or placate

Example Sentences:
'the offer was a sop to my feelings'

3. sop, standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedure

a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely

Example Sentences:
'rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries'

Verb

4. sop

give a conciliatory gift or bribe to

5. soak through, sop

be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid

6. sop

dip into liquid

Example Sentences:
'sop bread into the sauce'

7. douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse

cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

Example Sentences:
'souse water on his hot face'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sop

see synonyms of sop
noun
1. (often plural)
food soaked in a liquid before being eaten
2. 
a concession, bribe, etc, given to placate or mollify
a sop to one's feelings
3. informal
a foolish or weak person
verbWord forms: sops, sopping or sopped
4. (transitive)
to dip or soak (food) in liquid
5. (when intr, often foll by in)
to soak or be soaked
abbreviation for
standard operating procedure
abbreviation for
soprano

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Sop

see synonyms of sop
standard operating procedure
noun
1. 
a piece of food, as bread, soaked in milk, gravy, etc.
2. 
a. 
something given by way of concession or appeasement
b. 
a bribe
verb transitiveWord forms: sopped or ˈsopping
3. 
to soak, steep, or saturate in or with liquid
4. 
to take up (liquid) by absorption
usually with up
verb intransitive
5. 
to soak (in, into, or through something)
6. 
to be or become thoroughly wet

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sop

see synonyms of sop
abbr.
standard operating procedure
tr.v. sopped, sop·ping, sops
1. To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.
2. To take up by absorption: sop up water with a paper towel.
n.
1. A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.
2.
a. Something yielded to placate or soothe: remarks that were a sop to conservative voters.
b. A bribe.
abbr.
soprano

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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