soap

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.

   I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.

2. 2
   verb

   To apply soap to in washing.

   Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.

3. 3
   verb

   To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.

   Those kids soaped my windows!

4. 4
   noun

   thiopental (sodium pentothal)

   'Time? Doesn't have much meaning when they're trying to dry you out. I rather think they gave me a shot of soap at one point.' Soap is intelligence speak for sodium pentathol.

5. 5
   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.

6. 6
   noun

   a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats

7. 7
   noun

   street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

8. 8
   noun

   money offered as a bribe

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 såp…