soup
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
soup
n 1: liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock
often containing pieces of solid food
2: any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
3: an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now"
v 1: dope (a racehorse)
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Soup \Soup\, n. [F. soupe, OF. sope, supe, soupe, perhaps
originally, a piece of bread; probably of Teutonic origin;
cf. D. sop sop, G. suppe soup. See {Sop} something dipped in
a liquid, and cf. {Supper}.]
A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and
vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned
or flavored; strong broth.
[1913 Webster]
{Soup kitchen}, an establishment for preparing and supplying
soup to the poor.
{Soup ticket}, a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving
soup at a soup kitchen.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "soup":
CAT, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace,
albumen, batter, bisque, bonnyclabber, borscht, bouillabaisse,
bouillon, box, broth, bump, burgoo, butter, ceiling, chicken soup,
chowder, clabber, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, corner,
cornstarch, cream, crosswind, curd, developer, dilemma, dough,
egg drop soup, egg white, empty space, favorable wind, fish soup,
fix, fixer, fixing bath, fog, front, gaum, gazpacho, gel, gelatin,
glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gravy soup, gruel,
gumbo, gunk, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, hypo, ionosphere,
jam, jell, jelly, jetstream, julienne, lath, loblolly,
low-pressure area, matzo ball soup, mere shadow, minestrone,
misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, molasses, mucilage, mucus,
mulligatawny, overcast, oxtail soup, pap, paper, paste, pickle,
plight, pocket, porridge, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate,
potato soup, pottage, processing solution, pudding, pulp, puree,
putty, rail, rake, rob, roughness, scrape, semifluid, semiliquid,
shadow, shaving, short-stop, short-stop bath, size, skeleton, slat,
slip, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, space, splinter,
starch, sticky mess, stock, stop bath, stratosphere, streak,
substratosphere, syrup, tail wind, thick soup, thin soup,
tomato soup, treacle, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence,
turtle soup, vegetable soup, vein, vichyssoise, visibility,
visibility zero, wafer, won ton soup
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