Meaning of soup | Babel Free

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1. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
   countable, uncountable
2. soup (any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture)
3. To modify (something) so as to increase its capacity to perform or satisfy, especially to add horsepower or greater speed potential to (an engine or a vehicle).
4. A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
   countable
5. noodles
6. Having difficulties; in trouble.
7. The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
   uncountable
8. sopped bread
9. A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition:box, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight, predicament, quagmire, scrape, trouble.
10. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
11. third-person singular present indicative
12. a liquid food made from meat, vegetables etc. She made some chicken soup. sop حَساء، شوربَه супа sopa polévka die Suppe, die Brühe suppe σούπαsopa supp سوپ keitto soupe, potageמרק शोरबा, रसा, झोल juha, čorba leves sup súpa zuppa, minestra スープ 수프 sriuba zupa sup soepsuppezupa شوربا sopa supă, ciorbă суп polievka juha supa soppa น้ำแกง çorba 湯 суп پتلا شوربا، یخنی، گوشت، ترکاری وغیرہ کا xúp, canh, cháo 汤
    etc
13. Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
    countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
14. second-person singular imperative
15. in serious trouble. If she's found out about it, we're all in the soup! in die sop في مأزِق، في وَرْطَه в затруднение em apuros v pěkné kaši in der Tinte sitzen i suppedasen σε πολύ δύσκολη θέση en apuros supi sees مشكلات جدي liemessä dans de beaux draps בָּצרוֹת विपत्ति में u škripcu (benne van) a pácban dalam kesulitan sitja í súpunni, í klípu (nei pasticci/guai) 苦境に立つ 곤경에 처해, 난처하게 되어 keblioje padėtyje ķezā; tintē susah in de puree sitte fint i det w opałach ستونزی em apuros în încurcă­tură...
16. Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
    US, countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
17. soup up to improve the performance of a car or motor-cycle by making its engine more powerful etc. opkikker يُحَسِّن أو يُقَوّي المُحَرِّك увеличавам мощта envenenar vylepšit aufmöbeln, tunen tune ενισχύω τον κινητήρα αυτοκινήτου ή μηχανής trucar tuunima تقويت موتور virittää gonfler לְהַגדִיל אֶת כּוֹחַ הַמָנוֹע इंजन को ज्यादा शक्तिशाली बना कर किसी कार या मोटर साइकल का प्रदर्शन सुधारना pojačati, frizirati motor (fel)tuningol (lóerőteljesítmény fokozása céljából) meningkatkan daya mesin mobil,...
    etc
18. Dope or cocaine.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
19. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
20. Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
21. Slang Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially:a. Dense fog.
    Slang
22. A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
23. Primordial soup.
24. An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
    UK, countable, figuratively, informal, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
25. A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
26. The foamy portion of a wave.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
27. Any random starting pattern, typically studied to see what sorts of resultant more stable patterns emerge when evolved over subsequent generations.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.”

“Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]”

“The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment.”

“[…]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…]”

“primordial soup”

“B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.””

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