soap
verb
- to rub soap over or into
noun
- sodium salt of fatty acids ( long chain carboxylic acids ), used for washing and cleaning
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /soʊp/ / /səʊp/
name
- Acronym of Simple Object Access Protocol, a standard Internet protocol for exchanging structured information in a distributed environment.
“The specified system will use SOAP for message exchange.”
noun
- Acronym of subjective, objective, assessment, and plan.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seyb-? Proto-Germanic *saipǭ Proto-West Germanic *saipā Old English sāpe Middle English sope English soap From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”). Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”), Finnish saippua (“soap”), Finnish suopa (“soft soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.
- To apply soap to in washing.
“Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.”
- To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.
“Those kids soaped my windows!”
- To be discreet about (a topic).
- To flatter; to wheedle.