Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”). [A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.]
Used in a Sentence
soup
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for soup.
Editorial note
Even at 30,000 feet the air is thick as soup at cruising speed, and that's why planes have not got faster for the last 50 years.
Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”). [A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.]
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of soup gathered in one view.
(countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
(uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for soup.
noun
Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”). [A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.]
noun
(countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
noun
(uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
noun
(figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Example sentences
Even at 30,000 feet the air is thick as soup at cruising speed, and that's why planes have not got faster for the last 50 years.
Companies/groups/projects/developers should host things internally, themselves and that way they can control the whole process from soup to nuts.
We might all be standing in church soup lines for food, but at least hybrid batteries will be cheap.
Everybody is cooking their own soup and no-one wants to share their toys and sandbox with the other children.
But, separation, physically or temporary, makes a system more than some kind of chemical soup.
I haven't found just a soup implementation (would be interesting for javascript given the prototype objects).
And yes, if he urinates in my soup, he should be fired.
And it is very hard to predicatively and rationally operate in a bowl of primordial soup where one thing is not distinct from another.
I didn't get the hype about their soup, yet can recommend the whale steak.
Everything descends into a primordial soup when this starts happening.
Do you really need two nearly identical photos of a hand reaching for food in a Japanese restaurant, or three photos of a bowl of miso soup?
Sure enough your parents force you to eat it anyways and by the time you're an adult, you love brocoli soup with a side of brussel sprouts.
Quote examples
This is a bit like a university professor feeling "richer for the experience" of "working in fast food" after deciding it'll be an interesting sociological experiment to volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Judging by your username and posting history, you'd prefer to argue from nuts back to soup, rather than attempt to address valid concerns ("to rent stabilize, or not rent stabilize") within existing fungible frameworks (the rat's nest that is NYC politics).
> Judging by your username and posting history, you'd prefer to argue from nuts back to soup, rather than attempt to address valid concerns ("to rent stabilize, or not rent stabilize") within existing fungible frameworks (the rat's nest that is NYC politics).
Proper noun examples
What I don't see is very much momentum toward establishing a proper successor fork a la Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup.
I agree with that for a lot of things, but I would trade SQLite in a heartbeat for a Newton Soup[1] implementation.
I imagine not many people are familiar with Soup.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use soup in a sentence?
Even at 30,000 feet the air is thick as soup at cruising speed, and that's why planes have not got faster for the last 50 years.
What does soup mean?
Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”). [A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.]
What part of speech is soup?
soup is commonly used as noun.