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SOUP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("soup" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soup"):

vichyssoise (a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold)

Scotch broth (a thick soup made from beef or mutton with vegetables and pearl barley)

lentil soup (made of stock and lentils with onions carrots and celery)

green pea soup; potage St. Germain (made of fresh green peas and stock with shredded lettuce onion and celery)

split-pea soup (made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery)

won ton; wonton; wonton soup (a soup with won ton dumplings)

chowder (a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes)

eggdrop soup (made by stirring beaten eggs into a simmering broth)

green turtle soup; turtle soup (soup usually made of the flesh of green turtles)

potage; pottage (thick (often creamy) soup)

minestrone; petite marmite; vegetable soup (soup made with a variety of vegetables)

pepper pot; Philadelphia pepper pot (a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings)

pea soup (a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree))

oxtail soup (a soup made from the skinned tail of an ox)

mulligatawny (a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base)

mock turtle soup (soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup)

marmite (soup cooked in a large pot)

julienne (a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables)

gumbo (a soup or stew thickened with okra pods)

gazpacho (a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold)

cock-a-leekie; cocky-leeky (soup made from chicken boiled with leeks)

chicken soup (soup made from chicken broth)

broth; stock (liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces)

broth (a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock)

borsch; borscht; borsh; borshch; borsht; bortsch (a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation)

bisque (a thick cream soup made from shellfish)

consomme (clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken)

alphabet soup (soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet)

soup du jour (the soup that a restaurant is featuring on a given day)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An unfortunate situation

Example:

we're in the soup now

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("soup" is a kind of...):

position; situation (a condition or position in which you find yourself)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("soup" is a kind of...):

composition (a mixture of ingredients)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dope (a racehorse)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "soup" is one way to...):

dope; dope up (give a narcotic to)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of 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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

Soup too!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Data from this newest tsunami wave generated by our sun confirm that Voyager is in interstellar space — a region between the stars filled with a thin soup of charged particles, also known as plasma.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

After which, we went shivering, at that uncomfortable hour, to our respective beds, through various close passages; which smelt as if they had been steeped, for ages, in a solution of soup and stables.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you mean Darcy, cried her brother, he may go to bed, if he chooses, before it begins—but as for the ball, it is quite a settled thing; and as soon as Nicholls has made white soup enough, I shall send round my cards.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Such was the information of the first five minutes; the second unfolded thus much in detail—that they had driven directly to the York Hotel, ate some soup, and bespoke an early dinner, walked down to the pump-room, tasted the water, and laid out some shillings in purses and spars; thence adjourned to eat ice at a pastry-cook's, and hurrying back to the hotel, swallowed their dinner in haste, to prevent being in the dark; and then had a delightful drive back, only the moon was not up, and it rained a little, and Mr. Morland's horse was so tired he could hardly get it along.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When the dance was over, the king ordered his soup to be brought in; and it pleased him so well, that he thought he had never tasted any so good before.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Not a match did I bring. And now we shall have no hot coffee, soup, tea, or anything!”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then he studied the deep-lined face of the toil-worn woman before him, remembered her soups and loaves of new baking, and felt spring up in him the warmest gratitude and philanthropy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The soup was fifty times better than what we had at the Lucases' last week; and even Mr. Darcy acknowledged, that the partridges were remarkably well done; and I suppose he has two or three French cooks at least.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)