Soup vs. Potage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Soup and Potage
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Soup
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.
Potage
Thick soup
Recipes for soups or potages
Coarse, spicy potage
Soup
A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
Potage
A thick, often creamy soup.
Soup
Dense fog.
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Potage
A thick creamy soup.
Soup
Nitroglycerine.
Potage
See Pottage.
Soup
Primordial soup.
Potage
Thick (often creamy) soup
Soup
A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
Soup
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.
Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
Soup
(countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
Soup
(uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
Soup
(figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Soup
(slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
Soup
Or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
Soup
(cant) dope (an illicit drug used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).
Soup
(photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
Soup
(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.
Primordial soup
Soup
An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
Soup
(surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.
Soup
Alternative form of sup
Soup
(uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
Soup
(photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
Soup
(obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
Soup
Alternative form of sup
Soup
(obsolete) To sweep.
Soup
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.
Soup
To sup or swallow.
Soup
To breathe out.
Soup
To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.
Soup
Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
Soup
Any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
Soup
An unfortunate situation;
We're in the soup now
Soup
Dope (a racehorse)
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