Soe vs. Sop — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Soe and Sop
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Soe
(obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
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.
Soe
A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.
Sop
To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.
Sop
To take up by absorption
Sop up water with a paper towel.
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Sop
A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.
Sop
Something yielded to placate or soothe
Remarks that were a sop to conservative voters.
Sop
A bribe.
Sop
Something entirely soaked.
Sop
A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
Sop
Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
Sop
A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
Sop
(Appalachian) Gravy.
Sop
(obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
Sop
A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
Sop
(transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
Sop
(intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Sop
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.
Sop
Anything given to pacify; - so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
All nature is cured with a sop.
Sop
A thing of little or no value.
Garlands of roses and sops in wine.
Sop
To steep or dip in any liquid.
Sop
Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
Sop
A concession given to mollify or placate;
The offer was a sop to my feelings
Sop
A prescribed procedure to be followed routinely;
Rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries
Sop
Give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
Sop
Be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
Sop
Dip into liquid;
Sop bread into the sauce
Sop
Mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface;
Swab the floors
Sop
Become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid
Sop
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto;
Souse water on his hot face
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