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Definition of Soap
1. Verb. Rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning. "Did he soap his foot? "
Generic synonyms: Clean, Cleanse
Entails: Lave, Wash
Derivative terms: Lather, Lather
2. Noun. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
Generic synonyms: Cleaner, Cleanser, Cleansing Agent
Derivative terms: Saponify, Soapy
3. Noun. Money offered as a bribe.
4. Noun. Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate.
Generic synonyms: Gamma Hydroxybutyrate, Ghb
Definition of Soap
1. n. A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
2. v. t. To rub or wash over with soap.
Definition of Soap
1. Acronym. A standard Internet protocol for exchanging structured information in a distributed environment. ¹
2. Noun. A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically. ¹
3. Noun. (countable informal) A soap opera. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To apply soap to in washing. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive informal) To cover with soap as a prank. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive informal) To be discreet about (a topic). ¹
7. Verb. (slang dated) To flatter; to wheedle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soap
1. to treat with soap (a cleansing agent) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Soap
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A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc, with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
In general, soaps are of two classes, hard and soft. Calcium, magnesium, lead, etc, form soaps, but they are insoluble and useless. "The purifying action of soap depends upon the fact that it is decomposed by a large quantity of water into free alkali and an insoluble acid salt. The first of these takes away the fatty dirt on washing, and the latter forms the soap lather which envelops the greasy matter and thus tends to remove it." (Roscoe & Schorlemmer) Castile soap, a fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled, made of olive oil and soda; called also Marseilles, or Venetian, soap. Hard soap, any one of a great variety of soaps, of different ingredients and colour, which are hard and compact. All solid soaps are of this class. Lead soap, an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; used externally in medicine. Called also lead plaster, diachylon, etc. Marine soap. See Marine.
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