Definition of sop in English:

sop

nounPlural sops sɒp

1A thing of no great value given or done as a concession to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met.
my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work
Example sentencesExamples
- With major textile shops going all out to woo customers with sops, Loom World too is not far behind.
- Only then will we get the council tax relief out area needs and put a sop to these ridiculously high rises.
- The Government should, therefore, not act in haste and introduce subsidies and other sops for mitigating short-term repercussions, as these would affect the industry in the long run.
- His comments on Monday may have been sops to a hostile and left leaning audience.
- While the Centre seems content to follow a policy of wait-and-watch, the State governments say that by the time the sops are handed out, it would be too late.
- There may be some sops to home-buyers in Wednesday's budget, possibly in the form of raising the threshold at which Stamp Duty becomes payable from £60,000 to £100,000.
- However, just tinkering with the exchange rate or giving a few sops to exporters is unlikely to ramp exports up by the kind of scale that a seven per cent growth entails.
- The Magazine, a big glossy monthly freebie with the Sydney Morning Herald and a sop to Sydney's more onanistic tendencies, last week came up with a list of Sydney's ten finest minds.
- Here are some sops which might help politicians in spreading their net for votes.
- It should be possible to offer some sops to agencies which are diligent in repairing the roads dug up by them.
- Media pundits have suggested it was a sop to appease the right wing in the cabinet.
- As a sop to the public, murder is likely to be excepted from this change of jurisdiction; but who defines murder?
- The main sop is a pledge to increase markets for US goods overseas by carrying out a more aggressive trade policy against Europe and Japan.
- Those handwritten appraisals of titles by bookshops are merely a sop to political correctness and their own egos.
- Looked at from afar both subsidies look like sops to the middle classes.
- The great powers were focused on collective security; it was as a concession, a sop, that they consented to a peripheral project regarding human rights.
- Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead.
- But if he imagines that the country will be any the better for his cynical sops to the class-warrior wing of his party, he is mistaken.
- There are added serrations at the front of the slide, a sop to popular demand more than a useful necessity unless you're going to mount a scope atop the pistol.
- The critical thing is that fostering civilized behavior should be a priority up front in the design of our foreign policy, not an afterthought, a sop to bleeding hearts, or a pretext for something else.
Synonyms
compromise, adjustment, modification
2A piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce.
Example sentencesExamples
- At this time sops - pieces of bread - were used to soak up liquid mixtures, and these were often first toasted, which reduced their tendency to disintegrate.
- As such, soups or sops, as they were also known, became a dish with its own distinction, so did bisque.
- By chance I'd had them the day before as a satisfactory sop for a piece of grilled sea bass at Kensington Place in west London.
- Aleberry was ale boiled with spices and sugar and sops of bread.

verbsopped, sopping, sops sɒp

[with object]sop something up

1Soak up liquid using an absorbent substance.
he used some bread to sop up the sauce
Example sentencesExamples
- All Polish donuts, though, are greasy because the dense dough sops up the fry oil, and they tend to have a leathery paper tear-texture to the skin.
- Those same frozen fries gain similar respectability sopping up the cognac-tinged pan juices of rock 'n' roll beef, a staple of local Vietnamese menus that grew on me here.
- The batter sops up more than two grams of saturated fat and three grams of trans fat in the deep-fat fryer.
- Mom grabbed a paper towel and sopped up the spilled coffee.
- If you can, buy a dozen different wines, have a picnic in the car park with plenty of baguettes to sop up the wine, and select your favourites before going back in to buy them.
- We take bread and sop up the soup from the brown ceramic bowls.
- But if, like us, you have any sympathies towards English food whatsoever, you'll love the way they are soaking in the tomato gravy, getting all soggy and sopping up the flavours.
- I took one look, took a very deep breath, and then used all the available towels to sop up the mess, much to the barely concealed amusement of Zachery.
- Hoppers are often eaten for breakfast, but Jaffrey emphasizes their versatility, and also their pleasing ability to sop up all sorts of juices and savoury or sweet flavours.
- Run it along your hairline to sop up excess sweat.
Synonyms
soak up, suck up, draw in, draw up, take in, take up, blot up, mop up, sponge up, sop up
1. 1.1archaic Wet thoroughly; soak.
  the dews … bemoistening sop his harden'd shoes
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then he would "sop" his bread or biscuit in the sweet mixture.
  Synonyms
  dampen, damp, moisten, humidify

Origin

Old English soppian 'dip (bread) in liquid', sopp (noun), probably from the base of Old English sūpan 'sup'. Sense 1 (mid 17th century) alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus.

The Old English word sop first meant ‘to dip bread in liquid’—Chaucer says of his Franklin ‘Wel loved he in the morn a sop in wyn’—but nowadays a sop is something you do or offer as a concession to appease someone. This was originally used in the phrase a sop to Cerberus, referring to the monstrous three-headed watchdog which, in Greek mythology, guarded the entrance of Hades. In the Aeneid Virgil describes how the witch guiding Aeneas to the underworld threw a drugged cake to Cerberus, which allowed the hero to pass the monster in safety. When soppy, which comes from sop, first appeared in English in the early 19th century it meant ‘soaked with water’, not tears, as you might expect today from a feeble, sentimental soppy person. The writer H. G. Wells was one of the first to use the word in this sense. Soup (Middle English) comes from the French form of the same word. The American from soup to nuts for ‘from beginning to end’ dates from the early 20th century, while in the soup, also originally American and a variant of being in hot water is slightly earlier. Sip (Old English), sup (Old English), and supper (Middle English) go back to the same root.

Rhymes

atop, bop, chop, clop, cop, crop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, glop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, top, underprop, whop

sop¹

nounsäpsɑp

1A thing given or done as a concession of no great value to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met.
my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work
Example sentencesExamples
- However, just tinkering with the exchange rate or giving a few sops to exporters is unlikely to ramp exports up by the kind of scale that a seven per cent growth entails.
- The great powers were focused on collective security; it was as a concession, a sop, that they consented to a peripheral project regarding human rights.
- Looked at from afar both subsidies look like sops to the middle classes.
- Those handwritten appraisals of titles by bookshops are merely a sop to political correctness and their own egos.
- The Magazine, a big glossy monthly freebie with the Sydney Morning Herald and a sop to Sydney's more onanistic tendencies, last week came up with a list of Sydney's ten finest minds.
- Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead.
- While the Centre seems content to follow a policy of wait-and-watch, the State governments say that by the time the sops are handed out, it would be too late.
- There may be some sops to home-buyers in Wednesday's budget, possibly in the form of raising the threshold at which Stamp Duty becomes payable from £60,000 to £100,000.
- The main sop is a pledge to increase markets for US goods overseas by carrying out a more aggressive trade policy against Europe and Japan.
- The critical thing is that fostering civilized behavior should be a priority up front in the design of our foreign policy, not an afterthought, a sop to bleeding hearts, or a pretext for something else.
- Media pundits have suggested it was a sop to appease the right wing in the cabinet.
- But if he imagines that the country will be any the better for his cynical sops to the class-warrior wing of his party, he is mistaken.
- Here are some sops which might help politicians in spreading their net for votes.
- There are added serrations at the front of the slide, a sop to popular demand more than a useful necessity unless you're going to mount a scope atop the pistol.
- As a sop to the public, murder is likely to be excepted from this change of jurisdiction; but who defines murder?
- With major textile shops going all out to woo customers with sops, Loom World too is not far behind.
- It should be possible to offer some sops to agencies which are diligent in repairing the roads dug up by them.
- Only then will we get the council tax relief out area needs and put a sop to these ridiculously high rises.
- The Government should, therefore, not act in haste and introduce subsidies and other sops for mitigating short-term repercussions, as these would affect the industry in the long run.
- His comments on Monday may have been sops to a hostile and left leaning audience.
Synonyms
compromise, adjustment, modification
2A piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce.
Example sentencesExamples
- As such, soups or sops, as they were also known, became a dish with its own distinction, so did bisque.
- Aleberry was ale boiled with spices and sugar and sops of bread.
- By chance I'd had them the day before as a satisfactory sop for a piece of grilled sea bass at Kensington Place in west London.
- At this time sops - pieces of bread - were used to soak up liquid mixtures, and these were often first toasted, which reduced their tendency to disintegrate.

verbsäpsɑp

[with object]

1sop something upSoak up liquid using an absorbent substance.
he used some bread to sop up the sauce
Example sentencesExamples
- If you can, buy a dozen different wines, have a picnic in the car park with plenty of baguettes to sop up the wine, and select your favourites before going back in to buy them.
- I took one look, took a very deep breath, and then used all the available towels to sop up the mess, much to the barely concealed amusement of Zachery.
- The batter sops up more than two grams of saturated fat and three grams of trans fat in the deep-fat fryer.
- Run it along your hairline to sop up excess sweat.
- We take bread and sop up the soup from the brown ceramic bowls.
- All Polish donuts, though, are greasy because the dense dough sops up the fry oil, and they tend to have a leathery paper tear-texture to the skin.
- Hoppers are often eaten for breakfast, but Jaffrey emphasizes their versatility, and also their pleasing ability to sop up all sorts of juices and savoury or sweet flavours.
- Mom grabbed a paper towel and sopped up the spilled coffee.
- But if, like us, you have any sympathies towards English food whatsoever, you'll love the way they are soaking in the tomato gravy, getting all soggy and sopping up the flavours.
- Those same frozen fries gain similar respectability sopping up the cognac-tinged pan juices of rock 'n' roll beef, a staple of local Vietnamese menus that grew on me here.
2Wet thoroughly; soak.
Example sentencesExamples
- Then he would "sop" his bread or biscuit in the sweet mixture.

Origin

Old English soppian ‘dip (bread) in liquid’, sopp (noun), probably from the base of Old English sūpan ‘sup’. Sense 1 (mid 17th century) alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus.

SOP²

abbreviation

Standard Operating Procedure.

单词	sop
释义	Definition of sop in English: sop nounPlural sops sɒp 1A thing of no great value given or done as a concession to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met. my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work Example sentencesExamples With major textile shops going all out to woo customers with sops, Loom World too is not far behind. Only then will we get the council tax relief out area needs and put a sop to these ridiculously high rises. The Government should, therefore, not act in haste and introduce subsidies and other sops for mitigating short-term repercussions, as these would affect the industry in the long run. His comments on Monday may have been sops to a hostile and left leaning audience. While the Centre seems content to follow a policy of wait-and-watch, the State governments say that by the time the sops are handed out, it would be too late. There may be some sops to home-buyers in Wednesday's budget, possibly in the form of raising the threshold at which Stamp Duty becomes payable from £60,000 to £100,000. However, just tinkering with the exchange rate or giving a few sops to exporters is unlikely to ramp exports up by the kind of scale that a seven per cent growth entails. The Magazine, a big glossy monthly freebie with the Sydney Morning Herald and a sop to Sydney's more onanistic tendencies, last week came up with a list of Sydney's ten finest minds. Here are some sops which might help politicians in spreading their net for votes. It should be possible to offer some sops to agencies which are diligent in repairing the roads dug up by them. Media pundits have suggested it was a sop to appease the right wing in the cabinet. As a sop to the public, murder is likely to be excepted from this change of jurisdiction; but who defines murder? The main sop is a pledge to increase markets for US goods overseas by carrying out a more aggressive trade policy against Europe and Japan. Those handwritten appraisals of titles by bookshops are merely a sop to political correctness and their own egos. Looked at from afar both subsidies look like sops to the middle classes. The great powers were focused on collective security; it was as a concession, a sop, that they consented to a peripheral project regarding human rights. Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead. But if he imagines that the country will be any the better for his cynical sops to the class-warrior wing of his party, he is mistaken. There are added serrations at the front of the slide, a sop to popular demand more than a useful necessity unless you're going to mount a scope atop the pistol. The critical thing is that fostering civilized behavior should be a priority up front in the design of our foreign policy, not an afterthought, a sop to bleeding hearts, or a pretext for something else. Synonyms compromise, adjustment, modification 2A piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce. Example sentencesExamples At this time sops - pieces of bread - were used to soak up liquid mixtures, and these were often first toasted, which reduced their tendency to disintegrate. As such, soups or sops, as they were also known, became a dish with its own distinction, so did bisque. By chance I'd had them the day before as a satisfactory sop for a piece of grilled sea bass at Kensington Place in west London. Aleberry was ale boiled with spices and sugar and sops of bread. verbsopped, sopping, sops sɒp [with object]sop something up 1Soak up liquid using an absorbent substance. he used some bread to sop up the sauce Example sentencesExamples All Polish donuts, though, are greasy because the dense dough sops up the fry oil, and they tend to have a leathery paper tear-texture to the skin. Those same frozen fries gain similar respectability sopping up the cognac-tinged pan juices of rock 'n' roll beef, a staple of local Vietnamese menus that grew on me here. The batter sops up more than two grams of saturated fat and three grams of trans fat in the deep-fat fryer. Mom grabbed a paper towel and sopped up the spilled coffee. If you can, buy a dozen different wines, have a picnic in the car park with plenty of baguettes to sop up the wine, and select your favourites before going back in to buy them. We take bread and sop up the soup from the brown ceramic bowls. But if, like us, you have any sympathies towards English food whatsoever, you'll love the way they are soaking in the tomato gravy, getting all soggy and sopping up the flavours. I took one look, took a very deep breath, and then used all the available towels to sop up the mess, much to the barely concealed amusement of Zachery. Hoppers are often eaten for breakfast, but Jaffrey emphasizes their versatility, and also their pleasing ability to sop up all sorts of juices and savoury or sweet flavours. Run it along your hairline to sop up excess sweat. Synonyms soak up, suck up, draw in, draw up, take in, take up, blot up, mop up, sponge up, sop up 1.1archaic Wet thoroughly; soak. the dews … bemoistening sop his harden'd shoes Example sentencesExamples Then he would "sop" his bread or biscuit in the sweet mixture. Synonyms dampen, damp, moisten, humidify Origin Old English soppian 'dip (bread) in liquid', sopp (noun), probably from the base of Old English sūpan 'sup'. Sense 1 (mid 17th century) alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus. The Old English word sop first meant ‘to dip bread in liquid’—Chaucer says of his Franklin ‘Wel loved he in the morn a sop in wyn’—but nowadays a sop is something you do or offer as a concession to appease someone. This was originally used in the phrase a sop to Cerberus, referring to the monstrous three-headed watchdog which, in Greek mythology, guarded the entrance of Hades. In the Aeneid Virgil describes how the witch guiding Aeneas to the underworld threw a drugged cake to Cerberus, which allowed the hero to pass the monster in safety. When soppy, which comes from sop, first appeared in English in the early 19th century it meant ‘soaked with water’, not tears, as you might expect today from a feeble, sentimental soppy person. The writer H. G. Wells was one of the first to use the word in this sense. Soup (Middle English) comes from the French form of the same word. The American from soup to nuts for ‘from beginning to end’ dates from the early 20th century, while in the soup, also originally American and a variant of being in hot water is slightly earlier. Sip (Old English), sup (Old English), and supper (Middle English) go back to the same root. Rhymes atop, bop, chop, clop, cop, crop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, glop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, top, underprop, whop sop¹ nounsäpsɑp 1A thing given or done as a concession of no great value to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met. my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work Example sentencesExamples However, just tinkering with the exchange rate or giving a few sops to exporters is unlikely to ramp exports up by the kind of scale that a seven per cent growth entails. The great powers were focused on collective security; it was as a concession, a sop, that they consented to a peripheral project regarding human rights. Looked at from afar both subsidies look like sops to the middle classes. Those handwritten appraisals of titles by bookshops are merely a sop to political correctness and their own egos. The Magazine, a big glossy monthly freebie with the Sydney Morning Herald and a sop to Sydney's more onanistic tendencies, last week came up with a list of Sydney's ten finest minds. Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead. While the Centre seems content to follow a policy of wait-and-watch, the State governments say that by the time the sops are handed out, it would be too late. There may be some sops to home-buyers in Wednesday's budget, possibly in the form of raising the threshold at which Stamp Duty becomes payable from £60,000 to £100,000. The main sop is a pledge to increase markets for US goods overseas by carrying out a more aggressive trade policy against Europe and Japan. The critical thing is that fostering civilized behavior should be a priority up front in the design of our foreign policy, not an afterthought, a sop to bleeding hearts, or a pretext for something else. Media pundits have suggested it was a sop to appease the right wing in the cabinet. But if he imagines that the country will be any the better for his cynical sops to the class-warrior wing of his party, he is mistaken. Here are some sops which might help politicians in spreading their net for votes. There are added serrations at the front of the slide, a sop to popular demand more than a useful necessity unless you're going to mount a scope atop the pistol. As a sop to the public, murder is likely to be excepted from this change of jurisdiction; but who defines murder? With major textile shops going all out to woo customers with sops, Loom World too is not far behind. It should be possible to offer some sops to agencies which are diligent in repairing the roads dug up by them. Only then will we get the council tax relief out area needs and put a sop to these ridiculously high rises. The Government should, therefore, not act in haste and introduce subsidies and other sops for mitigating short-term repercussions, as these would affect the industry in the long run. His comments on Monday may have been sops to a hostile and left leaning audience. Synonyms compromise, adjustment, modification 2A piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce. Example sentencesExamples As such, soups or sops, as they were also known, became a dish with its own distinction, so did bisque. Aleberry was ale boiled with spices and sugar and sops of bread. By chance I'd had them the day before as a satisfactory sop for a piece of grilled sea bass at Kensington Place in west London. At this time sops - pieces of bread - were used to soak up liquid mixtures, and these were often first toasted, which reduced their tendency to disintegrate. verbsäpsɑp [with object] 1sop something upSoak up liquid using an absorbent substance. he used some bread to sop up the sauce Example sentencesExamples If you can, buy a dozen different wines, have a picnic in the car park with plenty of baguettes to sop up the wine, and select your favourites before going back in to buy them. I took one look, took a very deep breath, and then used all the available towels to sop up the mess, much to the barely concealed amusement of Zachery. The batter sops up more than two grams of saturated fat and three grams of trans fat in the deep-fat fryer. Run it along your hairline to sop up excess sweat. We take bread and sop up the soup from the brown ceramic bowls. All Polish donuts, though, are greasy because the dense dough sops up the fry oil, and they tend to have a leathery paper tear-texture to the skin. Hoppers are often eaten for breakfast, but Jaffrey emphasizes their versatility, and also their pleasing ability to sop up all sorts of juices and savoury or sweet flavours. Mom grabbed a paper towel and sopped up the spilled coffee. But if, like us, you have any sympathies towards English food whatsoever, you'll love the way they are soaking in the tomato gravy, getting all soggy and sopping up the flavours. Those same frozen fries gain similar respectability sopping up the cognac-tinged pan juices of rock 'n' roll beef, a staple of local Vietnamese menus that grew on me here. 2Wet thoroughly; soak. Example sentencesExamples Then he would "sop" his bread or biscuit in the sweet mixture. Origin Old English soppian ‘dip (bread) in liquid’, sopp (noun), probably from the base of Old English sūpan ‘sup’. Sense 1 (mid 17th century) alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus. SOP² abbreviation Standard Operating Procedure. noun.1 abbr.1
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Definition of sop in English:

sop

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Rhymes

sop1

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SOP2

sop¹

SOP²