different between milk vs soap

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?lk, IPA^(key): /m?lk/
• (Canada, Inland Northern American, for some speakers) IPA^(key): [m?lk]

Etymology 1

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h?mel?-.

Noun

milk (countable and uncountable, plural milks)

1. (uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
   • 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio

     […] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk. [from circa 1200]
   • 1381, Pegge Cook. Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath and Sherman M. Kuhn (editors), Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242, entry "dorr??":

     For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

   • circa 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin (editor), Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55, London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I (Original Series; 91), OCLC 374760, page 11:

     Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]

3. (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.

   (Formally: The guests at table three ordered three glasses of milk.)

4. (countable or invariant) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
   • 2014, Don Eggspuehler, Teachings From Pop, Author House (?ISBN), page 459:

     She just sat there drinking cup after cup of strong coffee, with two milks and two sugars.

   • 2015, Carolyn Arnold, City of Gold: (Mathew Connor Adventure Series Book 1), Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc. (?ISBN)

     Five minutes later, he returned with Justin's large coffee with two milk and two sweeteners and a black coffee for himself.

   • 2019, Maggie Blackbird, Redeemed: The Matawapit Family Series, #1, eXtasy Books (?ISBN), page 349:

     Mrs. Dale huffed up to the counter and fired her battle-axe stare at the attendant. “One medium tea. ... Two double-doubles, and one with two milk and two sweeteners.”

   • 2020, John Mitton, Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress, Page Publishing, Inc (?ISBN)

     She placed on her desk a brown paper bag; it held her breakfast, cream cheese on a toasted bagel and coffee with two milks and one sugar.

5. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
6. (uncountable, slang) Semen.

Derived terms

Related terms

• milch

Descendants

• ? Chuukese: minik
• ? Gilbertese: miriki
• ? Japanese: ??? (miruku)
• ? Korean: ?? (milkeu)

Synonyms

• cow milk
• cow's milk
• cowmilk

Translations

See milk/translations § Noun.

References

• FDA standard of identity for "milk".

Etymology 2

From Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?mel?-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulge? (“I milk”), Ancient Greek ?????? (amélg?, “I milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian ??????? (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A m?lk-.

Verb

milk (third-person singular simple present milks, present participle milking, simple past and past participle milked)

1. (transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
2. (transitive) To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

3. (transitive) To express any liquid (from any creature).
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
   • July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator

     They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

5. (of an electrical storage battery) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
6. (transitive, slang) To single-mindedly masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement and/or satisfaction of the masturbator/trix rather than the person masturbated.

Derived terms

• milking table

Translations

See also

• dairy
• dairy product

References

Further reading

• milk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Klim

Scanian

Alternative forms

• mjælk

Etymology

From Old Norse mj?lk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mé?lk]

Noun

milk m

1. milk

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /so?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English s?pe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saip?, from Proto-Germanic *saip?, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).

Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”). Related also to Old English s?p (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin s?bum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin s?p? (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.

Noun

soap (countable and uncountable, plural soaps)

1. (countable, uncountable) A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar (bar soap) or in liquid form (liquid soap), derived from fats or made synthetically.

2. (chemistry) A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid
3. Flattery or excessively complacent conversation.

4. (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
5. (countable, informal) A soap opera.
6. (countable) A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.

Alternative forms

• sope (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• body wash
• shampoo
• shower gel
• wash-ball

References

• The Free Dictionary definitions from various other dictionaries
• Soaping Masonry

Verb

soap (third-person singular simple present soaps, present participle soaping, simple past and past participle soaped)

1. (transitive) To apply soap to in washing.

2. (transitive, informal) To cover, lather or in any other form treat with soap, often as a prank.

3. (transitive, informal) To be discreet about (a topic).
4. (slang, dated) To flatter; to wheedle.

Synonyms

• (to be discreet about): soft soap, sugar soap, soft-pedal, downplay

Translations

Related terms

• soaper
• saponification

See also

• soap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

soap (uncountable)

1. (slang) sodium pentothal
   • 2013, John Gardner, James Bond: The John Gardner Years

     'Time? Doesn't have much meaning when they're trying to dry you out. I rather think they gave me a shot of soap at one point.' Soap is intelligence speak for sodium pentathol.

Anagrams

• AOPs, AOSP, OAPs, OSAP, PAOs, Paos, Paso, SOPA, Sapo, poas, sapo-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English soap. Doublet of zeep.

Pronunciation

Noun

soap f (plural soaps, diminutive soapje n)

1. soap opera, soap

Anagrams

• opa's

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English soap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sop/

Noun

soap m (plural soaps)

1. soap opera, soap

Anagrams

• posa