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SOP

abbr.

standard operating procedure

sop

(sŏp)

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.

1. A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.

a. Something yielded to placate or soothe: remarks that were a sop to conservative voters.

b. A bribe.

[From Middle English soppe, bread dipped in liquid, from Old English sopp- (in soppcuppe, cup for dipping bread in); see seuə- in Indo-European roots.]

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sop

(sɒp)

1. (Cookery) (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 stupid or weak person

vb, sops, sopping or sopped

4. (Cookery) (tr) to dip or soak (food) in liquid

5. (when: intr, often foll by in) to soak or be soaked

[Old English sopp; related to Old Norse soppa soup, Old High German sopfa milk with bread; see sup²]

SOP

abbreviation for

standard operating procedure

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sop

(sɒp)

n., v. sopped, sop•ping. n.

1. a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.

2. something offered to conciliate, pacify, or bribe.

v.t.

3. to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy.

4. to drench.

5. to take up (liquid) by absorption.

[before 1000; Middle English (n.); Old English sopp; akin to sup²]

sop

Past participle: sopped
Gerund: sopping

Imperative
sop
sop

Present
I sop
you sop
he/she/it sops
we sop
you sop
they sop

Preterite
I sopped
you sopped
he/she/it sopped
we sopped
you sopped
they sopped

Present Continuous
I am sopping
you are sopping
he/she/it is sopping
we are sopping
you are sopping
they are sopping

Present Perfect
I have sopped
you have sopped
he/she/it has sopped
we have sopped
you have sopped
they have sopped

Past Continuous
I was sopping
you were sopping
he/she/it was sopping
we were sopping
you were sopping
they were sopping

Past Perfect
I had sopped
you had sopped
he/she/it had sopped
we had sopped
you had sopped
they had sopped

Future
I will sop
you will sop
he/she/it will sop
we will sop
you will sop
they will sop

Future Perfect
I will have sopped
you will have sopped
he/she/it will have sopped
we will have sopped
you will have sopped
they will have sopped

Future Continuous
I will be sopping
you will be sopping
he/she/it will be sopping
we will be sopping
you will be sopping
they will be sopping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been sopping
you have been sopping
he/she/it has been sopping
we have been sopping
you have been sopping
they have been sopping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been sopping
you will have been sopping
he/she/it will have been sopping
we will have been sopping
you will have been sopping
they will have been sopping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been sopping
you had been sopping
he/she/it had been sopping
we had been sopping
you had been sopping
they had been sopping

Conditional
I would sop
you would sop
he/she/it would sop
we would sop
you would sop
they would sop

Past Conditional
I would have sopped
you would have sopped
he/she/it would have sopped
we would have sopped
you would have sopped
they would have sopped

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Noun	1.	sop - piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid sops bite, morsel, bit - a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"
	2.	sop - a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings" concession - a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for"
	3.	SOP - a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries" standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedure operating procedure - a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation lockstep - a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly; "the union's support had been in lockstep for years"
Verb	1.	sop - give a conciliatory gift or bribe to bribe, grease one's palms, buy, corrupt - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
	2.	sop - be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid soak through ooze through - run slowly and gradually; "Blood oozed through the bandage"
	3.	sop - dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce" dip, dunk, souse, douse, plunge - immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
	4.	sop - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" souse, soak, dowse, drench, douse wet - cause to become wet; "Wet your face" brine - soak in brine bedraggle, draggle - make wet and dirty, as from rain bate - soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins" ret - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue sluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

sop

verb

To make thoroughly wet:

douse, drench, saturate, soak, sodden, souse, wet.

phrasal verb
sop up

To take in (moisture or liquid):

absorb, drink, imbibe, soak (up), take up.

Translations

concessione inzuppare pezzo di pane

sop

[sɒp] N

1. (fig) (= pacifier) → compensación f
as a sop to his pride → para que su orgullo no quedara/quede herido

2. sops (= food) → sopa fsing

3. (= person) → bobo/a m/f

sop up VT + ADV → absorber

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sop

[ˈsɒp] n → os m à ronger
that's only a sop → ce n'est qu'un os à ronger
a sop to sb → un os à ronger offert à qn

sop

(= food) → eingetunktes Brotstück

(to pacify) → Beschwichtigungsmittel nt; they’re just offering you that as a sop to keep you quiet → die bieten euch das nur an, damit ihr ruhig bleibt; as a sop to his conscience → als Trostpflaster für sein (schlechtes) Gewissen

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sop

[sɒp] n

a. (concession) that's only a sop → è soltanto un contentino
to give sb a sop → dare il contentino a qn
as a sop to his pride → per lusingare il suo amor proprio

b. sops npl (food) → pappette fpl

sop up vt + adv (fam) → assorbire, bere

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Lucy, for the third time, said that poor Charlotte would be sopped. The Arno was rising in flood, washing away the traces of the little carts upon the foreshore.

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An arch of the bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped away.

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She sat down on a pile of stones, and sopped her cheek with her handkerchief; then she ate a crust of bread she had put in her basket, and consoled herself by looking at the bird.