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SOP

abbr.

standard operating procedure

sop

(sŏp)

tr.v. sopped, sop·ping, sops

1. To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.

2. To take up by absorption: sop up water with a paper towel.

1. A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.

a. Something yielded to placate or soothe: remarks that were a sop to conservative voters.

b. A bribe.

[From Middle English soppe, bread dipped in liquid, from Old English sopp- (in soppcuppe, cup for dipping bread in); see seuə- in Indo-European roots.]

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sop

(sɒp)

1. (Cookery) (often plural) food soaked in a liquid before being eaten

2. a concession, bribe, etc, given to placate or mollify: a sop to one's feelings.

3. informal a stupid or weak person

vb, sops, sopping or sopped

4. (Cookery) (tr) to dip or soak (food) in liquid

5. (when: intr, often foll by in) to soak or be soaked

[Old English sopp; related to Old Norse soppa soup, Old High German sopfa milk with bread; see sup²]

SOP

abbreviation for

standard operating procedure

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sop

(sɒp)

n., v. sopped, sop•ping. n.

1. a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.

2. something offered to conciliate, pacify, or bribe.

v.t.

3. to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy.

4. to drench.

5. to take up (liquid) by absorption.

[before 1000; Middle English (n.); Old English sopp; akin to sup²]

sop

Past participle: sopped
Gerund: sopping

Imperative
sop
sop

Present
I sop
you sop
he/she/it sops
we sop
you sop
they sop

Preterite
I sopped
you sopped
he/she/it sopped
we sopped
you sopped
they sopped

Present Continuous
I am sopping
you are sopping
he/she/it is sopping
we are sopping
you are sopping
they are sopping

Present Perfect
I have sopped
you have sopped
he/she/it has sopped
we have sopped
you have sopped
they have sopped

Past Continuous
I was sopping
you were sopping
he/she/it was sopping
we were sopping
you were sopping
they were sopping

Past Perfect
I had sopped
you had sopped
he/she/it had sopped
we had sopped
you had sopped
they had sopped

Future
I will sop
you will sop
he/she/it will sop
we will sop
you will sop
they will sop

Future Perfect
I will have sopped
you will have sopped
he/she/it will have sopped
we will have sopped
you will have sopped
they will have sopped

Future Continuous
I will be sopping
you will be sopping
he/she/it will be sopping
we will be sopping
you will be sopping
they will be sopping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been sopping
you have been sopping
he/she/it has been sopping
we have been sopping
you have been sopping
they have been sopping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been sopping
you will have been sopping
he/she/it will have been sopping
we will have been sopping
you will have been sopping
they will have been sopping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been sopping
you had been sopping
he/she/it had been sopping
we had been sopping
you had been sopping
they had been sopping

Conditional
I would sop
you would sop
he/she/it would sop
we would sop
you would sop
they would sop

Past Conditional
I would have sopped
you would have sopped
he/she/it would have sopped
we would have sopped
you would have sopped
they would have sopped

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Noun	1.	sop - piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid sops bite, morsel, bit - a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"
	2.	sop - a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings" concession - a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for"
	3.	SOP - a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries" standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedure operating procedure - a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation lockstep - a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly; "the union's support had been in lockstep for years"
Verb	1.	sop - give a conciliatory gift or bribe to bribe, grease one's palms, buy, corrupt - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
	2.	sop - be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid soak through ooze through - run slowly and gradually; "Blood oozed through the bandage"
	3.	sop - dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce" dip, dunk, souse, douse, plunge - immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
	4.	sop - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" souse, soak, dowse, drench, douse wet - cause to become wet; "Wet your face" brine - soak in brine bedraggle, draggle - make wet and dirty, as from rain bate - soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins" ret - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue sluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

sop

verb

To make thoroughly wet:

douse, drench, saturate, soak, sodden, souse, wet.

phrasal verb
sop up

To take in (moisture or liquid):

absorb, drink, imbibe, soak (up), take up.

Translations

concessione inzuppare pezzo di pane

sop

[sɒp] N

1. (fig) (= pacifier) → compensación f
as a sop to his pride → para que su orgullo no quedara/quede herido

2. sops (= food) → sopa fsing

3. (= person) → bobo/a m/f

sop up VT + ADV → absorber

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sop

[ˈsɒp] n → os m à ronger
that's only a sop → ce n'est qu'un os à ronger
a sop to sb → un os à ronger offert à qn

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sop

(= food) → eingetunktes Brotstück

(to pacify) → Beschwichtigungsmittel nt; they’re just offering you that as a sop to keep you quiet → die bieten euch das nur an, damit ihr ruhig bleibt; as a sop to his conscience → als Trostpflaster für sein (schlechtes) Gewissen

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sop

[sɒp] n

a. (concession) that's only a sop → è soltanto un contentino
to give sb a sop → dare il contentino a qn
as a sop to his pride → per lusingare il suo amor proprio

b. sops npl (food) → pappette fpl

sop up vt + adv (fam) → assorbire, bere

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Anne, by dint of talking over her shoulder to the girls and occasionally passing a sop of civility to Billy--who grinned and chuckled and never could think of any reply until it was too late--contrived to enjoy the drive in spite of all.

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All day it streamed rain; the island ran like a sop, there was no dry spot to be found; and when I lay down that night, between two boulders that made a kind of roof, my feet were in a bog.

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The porter in his lodge answers exactly to Cerberus in his den, and, like him, must be appeased by a sop before access can be gained to his master.

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"Come, master, taste my sop," said he, kneeling down before the cup.

The sop was so good that Levin gave up the idea of going home.

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This clay was money, and was applied, a sop here and a sop there, as fast as it was needed, but only when it was directly needed.

When he saw the wall shaking and crumbling irretrievably at a particular place, he patched it up with sops of cash from his three cash-earning companies.

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Why, in a final access of pity, had she insisted on flinging, as a last sop to that dcmon's soul, her divine song:

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Was I a milk-and-water sop? No; a thousand times no, and a thousand glasses no.

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In sudden panic I dashed my knuckles on the wooden bars, to get at a duck to give the monster for a sop. My knuckles bled.

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Into that vast perpetual torture-house: There are the Furies tossing damned souls On burning forks; there bodies boil in lead; There are live quarters broiling on the coals, That ne'er can die; this ever-burning chair Is for o'er-tortur'd souls to rest them in; These that are fed with sops of flaming fire, Were gluttons, and lov'd only delicates, And laugh'd to see the poor starve at their gates: But yet all these are nothing; thou shalt see Ten thousand tortures that more horrid be.

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As he halted Sancho came up, and seeing him disposed to attack this well-ordered squadron, said to him, "It would be the height of madness to attempt such an enterprise; remember, senor, that against sops from the brook, and plenty of them, there is no defensive armour in the world, except to stow oneself away under a brass bell; and besides, one should remember that it is rashness, and not valour, for a single man to attack an army that has Death in it, and where emperors fight in person, with angels, good and bad, to help them; and if this reflection will not make you keep quiet, perhaps it will to know for certain that among all these, though they look like kings, princes, and emperors, there is not a single knight-errant."