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English

Alternative forms

• soppe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *s?pan? (“to sup”). More at sup; compare soup.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sop (plural sops)

1. Something entirely soaked.
2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.

   • He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
3. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
   • 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:

     The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.

   • That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing.

4. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
5. (Appalachia) Gravy.
6. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
7. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

Derived terms

• sippet

Translations

Verb

sop (third-person singular simple present sops, present participle sopping, simple past and past participle sopped)

1. (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
2. (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Derived terms

• sop up

Translations

Anagrams

• OPS, OPS+, OPs, POS, POs, PSO, ops, pos

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sop (“soup”), from Old Dutch *sop, from Proto-Germanic *supp?. In the sense “water with soap” it is a shortening of zeepsop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?p/
• Hyphenation: sop
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopje n)

1. water with soap, usually for washing
2. the sea in terms of somebody who will sail on it

3. (now dialectal) Archaic form of soep.

Derived terms

• afwassop
• in zijn eigen sop gaar laten koken
• soppen
• zeepsop

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sop

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch sop

Noun

sop (first-person possessive sopku, second-person possessive sopmu, third-person possessive sopnya)

1. soup

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish sop(p), from Latin stuppa (“coarse flax, tow”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??p?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /s?ap?/ (as if spelled sap)

Noun

sop m (genitive singular soip, nominative plural soip)

1. wisp, small bundle (of straw, etc.)
2. straw bedding; (straw) bed

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

sop (present analytic sopann, future analytic sopfaidh, verbal noun sopadh, past participle soptha)

1. (transitive) light with straw

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• "sop" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “sop” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “sop” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Noun

sop

1. small amount of food
   • c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman

     And if he soupeth, eteth but a sop

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

1. cleaner

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopke)

1. juice
2. soup

Derived terms

• sinesappelsop

Further reading

• “sop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

West Uvean

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

1. soap

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin sch?ma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ??? (ékh?, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ski?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

scheme (plural schemes)

1. A systematic plan of future action.
   • c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects

     The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
2. A plot or secret, devious plan.
3. An orderly combination of related parts.

   • the appearance and outward scheme of things

   • 1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; at the Funeral of My. Tho. Bennett

     such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity

   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, The Freedom of the Will

     arguments […] sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
4. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
   • April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey

     to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France

5. (mathematics) A type of geometric object.
6. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 101:

     It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.

7. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
8. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
9. (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
10. (Britain, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

Usage notes

In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”

Synonyms

• (a systematic plan of future action): blueprint

Derived terms

• colour scheme
• pilot scheme

Descendants

• ? Malay: skim

Translations

Verb

scheme (third-person singular simple present schemes, present participle scheming, simple past and past participle schemed)

1. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
2. (transitive) To plan; to contrive.
   • 1908, Bohemian Magazine (volume 15, page 381)

     He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.

Translations

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Anagrams

• Meches

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?m?/

Verb

scheme

1. (reflexive) to be ashamed

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon skimo (“shadow”). Originally masculine.

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ?¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /sk??m?/

Noun

scheme m or f

1. A shadow, a shade; a darkness created by an object obstructing light
2. A shadow, a shade; something which is barely perceptible or not physical

   ...lose se van der walt der dusternisse unde van deme scheme des dodes. (" ...free them from the power of darkness and the shadow of death." )

3. A shimmer; a soft or weak occurrence of light
4. twilight; the lighting conditions at dusk and dawn
5. A face mask
6. aureola

Alternative forms

• sceme