Soc vs. Sop

Socnoun

Sociology or social science.

Sopnoun

Something entirely soaked.

Socnoun

Upper class youth.

Sopnoun

A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.

Socnoun

The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

Sopnoun

Something given or done to pacify or bribe.

Socnoun

Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

Sopnoun

A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop

Socnoun

An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.

Sopnoun

(Appalachian) Gravy.

Socnoun

The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

Sopnoun

(obsolete) A thing of little or no value.

Socnoun

An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.

Sopnoun

A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

Sopverb

(transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.

Sopverb

(intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Sopnoun

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

‘He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.’; ‘Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.’; ‘The bounded watersShould lift their bosoms higher than the shores,And make a sop of all this solid globe.’;

Sopnoun

Anything given to pacify; - so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.

‘All nature is cured with a sop.’;

Sopnoun

A thing of little or no value.

‘Garlands of roses and sops in wine.’;

Sopverb

To steep or dip in any liquid.

Sopnoun

piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid

Sopnoun

a concession given to mollify or placate;

‘the offer was a sop to my feelings’;

Sopnoun

a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely;

‘rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries’;

Sopverb

give a conciliatory gift or bribe to

Sopverb

be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid

Sopverb

dip into liquid;

‘sop bread into the sauce’;

Sopverb

mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface;

‘swab the floors’;

Sopverb

become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid

Sopverb

cover with liquid; pour liquid onto;

‘souse water on his hot face’;

Sop

A sop is a piece of bread or toast that is drenched in liquid and then eaten. In medieval cuisine, sops were very common; they were served with broth, soup, or wine and then picked apart into smaller pieces to soak in the liquid.