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soup
(so͞op)n.
Phrasal Verb: 1. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
2. Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially:
a. Dense fog.
b. Nitroglycerine.
3. Primordial soup.
4. A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
soup up Slang
Idiom: To modify (something) so as to increase its capacity to perform or satisfy, especially to add horsepower or greater speed potential to (an engine or a vehicle).
in the soup Slang
Having difficulties; in trouble.
[Middle English soupe, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see seuə- in Indo-European roots. Soup up, from soup, material injected into a horse to make it run faster (influenced by supercharge).]
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soup
(suːp)n
1. (Cookery) a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, vegetables, etc, usually served hot at the beginning of a meal
2. (Photography) informal a photographic developer
3. informal anything resembling soup in appearance or consistency, esp thick fog. See also peasouper
4. (Elements & Compounds) a slang name for nitroglycerine
5. in the soup informal in trouble or difficulties
[C17: from Old French soupe, from Late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin; compare Middle High German suppe, Old Norse soppa soup]
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soup
(sup)n.
1. a liquid food made by simmering vegetables, seasonings, and often meat or fish.
2. Slang. a thick fog.
3. Slang. added power, esp. horsepower.
4. Slang. nitroglycerine.
v.t. 5. soup up, Slang.
Idioms: a. to increase the power or top speed of (an engine or vehicle).
b. to enliven.
1. from soup to nuts, from beginning to end.
2. in the soup, Slang. in trouble.
[1645–55; < French soupe, Old French souppe, sope < Germanic; compare Dutch sopen to dunk; akin to sop]
soup′less, adj.
soup′like`, adj.
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| Noun | 1. |  soup - liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid fooddish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" soup du jour - the soup that a restaurant is featuring on a given day alphabet soup - soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet consomme - clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken bisque - a thick cream soup made from shellfish borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch - a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation broth - a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock broth, stock - liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces; "she made gravy with a base of beef stock" chicken soup - soup made from chicken broth cock-a-leekie, cocky-leeky - soup made from chicken boiled with leeks gazpacho - a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold gumbo - a soup or stew thickened with okra pods julienne - a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables marmite - soup cooked in a large pot mock turtle soup - soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup mulligatawny - a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base oxtail soup - a soup made from the skinned tail of an ox pea soup - a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree) pepper pot, Philadelphia pepper pot - a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings green turtle soup, turtle soup - soup usually made of the flesh of green turtles eggdrop soup - made by stirring beaten eggs into a simmering broth chowder - a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes split-pea soup - made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery green pea soup, potage St. Germain - made of fresh green peas and stock with shredded lettuce onion and celery lentil soup - made of stock and lentils with onions carrots and celery Scotch broth - a thick soup made from beef or mutton with vegetables and pearl barley vichyssoise - a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold |
| 2. | soup - any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech composition - a mixture of ingredients | |
| 3. | soup - an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | |
| Verb | 1. | soup - dope (a racehorse) practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
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soup
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
soup
nounThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
حَسَاءحَساء، شوربَهيُحَسِّن أو يُقَوّي المُحَرِّك
polévkavylepšit
suppetune
keitto
juha
leves
súpa
スープ
수프
zupa
polievkazvýšiť výkon
juha
soppa
ซุป
çorbagücünü arttırmak
súp
soup
[suːp]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
soup
[ˈsuːp] n → soupe f, potage mvegetable soup → soupe f aux légumes
to be in the soup > (fig) → être dans le pétrin soup bowl n → bol m de soupesoup course n → potage msouped-up [ˌsuːptˈʌp] adj [engine] → gonflé(e); [car] → préparé(e), trafiqué(e); [version] → amélioré(e)soup kitchen n → soupe f populairesoup plate n → assiette f creuse, assiette f à soupesoup spoon n → cuillère f à soupesoup tureen n → soupière f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
soup
soup
:soup kitchen
n → Volksküche f; (for disaster area etc) → Feldküche f
soup plate
n → Suppenteller m, → tiefer Teller
soup spoon
n → Suppenlöffel m
soup tureen
n → Suppenterrine f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
soup
[suːp] n → minestra; (thick) → zuppa; (clear) → brodovegetable soup → minestra di verdura
to be in the soup (fam) → essere or trovarsi nei pasticci
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
soup1
(suːp) noun a liquid food made from meat, vegetables etc. She made some chicken soup.
in the soup in serious trouble. If she's found out about it, we're all in the soup!
soup2
verbsoup up to improve the performance of a car or motor-cycle by making its engine more powerful etc.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
soup
→ حَسَاء polévka suppe Suppe σούπα sopa keitto soupe juha minestra スープ 수프 soep suppe zupa sopa суп soppa ซุป çorba súp 汤Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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soup
n sopa, (broth-based, without cream) caldoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.