单词 | sop |
释义 | sop (once / 5412 pages) 1vn 2vn WORD FAMILY sop: sopped, sopping, sops USAGE EXAMPLESCritics call their plan a sop to the city’s large employers. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) Like redirecting him to sop up rows of coins or trounce trundling enemies with last second spins. Time(Dec 15, 2016) Reform proponents said the suggestions were sops to industry and he withdrew its report. Reuters(Dec 08, 2016) 1 1v dip into liquid sop bread into the sauce Hyper dip, douse, dunk, plunge, souse immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate 2v cover with liquid; pour liquid onto Syn|Hypo|Hyper douse, dowse, drench, soak, souse brine soak in brine bedraggle, dragglemake wet and dirty, as from rain batesoak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments retplace (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue flush, sluiceirrigate with water from a sluice wet cause to become wet 3v be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid Syn|Hyper soak through ooze through run slowly and gradually 4n piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid 2Syn|Hyper sops bit, bite, morsel a small amount of solid food; a mouthful 1v give a conciliatory gift or bribe to Hyper bribe, buy, corrupt, grease one's palms make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence 2n a concession given to mollify or placate the offer was a sop to my feelings Hyper concession a point conceded or yielded SOP (once / 454589 pages) n WORD FAMILY SOP USAGE EXAMPLESAnd training is terrible if this is SOP. New York Times(Sep 23, 2016) As Paul Krugman so deftly pointed out last week this is unfortunately now SOP with the GOP. US News(Nov 25, 2015) But “this SOP does not address tunnel ventilation strategies.” Washington Post(Feb 11, 2015) n a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely Syn|Hypo|Hyper standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedure lockstep a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly operating procedure a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation |
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