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Soup vs. Potage — What's the Difference?

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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