soap

名词 n. 动词 v.
/səʊp/    /soʊp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products. countable,uncountable
  2. thiopental (sodium pentothal) slang,uncountable
    — '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.
  3. Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning. broadly,countable,informal,uncountable
    — I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.
  4. Money, specially when used as a bribe. countable,slang,uncountable
  5. A soap opera. countable,informal
  6. A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions. countable
动词 v.
  1. To apply soap to in washing. transitive
    — Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.
  2. To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank. informal,transitive
    — Those kids soaped my windows!
  3. To be discreet about (a topic). informal,transitive
  4. To flatter; to wheedle. dated,slang

词形变化

soaps plural sope alternative,obsolete soaps present,singular,third-person soaping participle,present soaped participle,past soaped past

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
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 såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”), Finnish saippua (“soap”), Finnish suopa (“soft soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.
词源 2
Probably an abbreviation of sodium pentothal.
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