Soup vs. Bisque — What's the Difference?

Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth.

A rich, creamy soup made from meat, fish, or shellfish.

A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.

A thick cream soup made of puréed vegetables.

Dense fog.

Ice cream mixed with crushed macaroons or nuts.

Nitroglycerine.

See biscuit.

Primordial soup.

A pale orange-yellow to yellowish gray.

A chaotic or unfortunate situation.

An advantage allowed an inferior player in certain games, such as a free point in tennis, an extra turn in croquet, or an additional stroke in golf.

Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.

A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.

(countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.

A pale pinkish brown colour.

(uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.

(ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.

(figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.

(sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.

(slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).

A free turn in a handicap croquet match.

Or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.

A free point in a handicap real tennis match.

(cant) dope (an illicit drug used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).

(chiefly British) Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.

(photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.

A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.

(biology) 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.

(British parliament) Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.

An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.

Of a pale pinkish brown colour.

(surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.

(transitive) To prepare ceramics in the bisque style.

Alternative form of sup

Unglazed white porcelain.

(uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.

A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

(photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.

A white soup made of crayfish.

(obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.

A thick cream soup made from shellfish

Alternative form of sup

(obsolete) To sweep.

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.

To sup or swallow.

To breathe out.

To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.

Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food

Any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup

An unfortunate situation;

Dope (a racehorse)