sop
/sɒp/US/sɑp/
sop noun: something entirely soaked. Also the ellipsis of sop to Cerberus.
Noun (1)
sop (countable and uncountable, plural sops)
- Something entirely soaked.
- The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- […]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 13:26, column 1
- […]Sops in Wine, (Quantitie for Quantitie,) inebriate more, than Wine of it ſelfe.1631, Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee...
- Gravy.
- A thing of little or no value.
- Here, in Barcelona, your streets are alive at night, you walk, you eat for hours, you interact, you share your minds. Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop. The whole country and everything you've ever believed about it really functions only on the surface.1988 August 20, Rex Wockner, “Nobody Can Do It Like The USA”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 5
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
Verb
sop (third-person singular simple present sops, present participle sopping, simple past and past participle sopped)
- To steep or dip in any liquid.
- A messe of milke sopt with white bread.1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 29
- When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land.1928, Newman Ivey White, American Negro Folk-Songs, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 227
- To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Proper noun capitalized: SOP
SOP
- Initialism of State of Palestine.
Noun (2) capitalized: SOP
SOP (countable and uncountable, plural SOPs)
- Initialism of sex on or over the phone.
- Initialism of standard operating procedure.
- Initialism of start of production.
- Initialism of setting-out point.
- Initialism of system/systems of provision.
- As Lockie and Kitto (2000: 5) note, this important dimension is recognized by the SOP approach but they argue that it is “poorly developed in both theorisation and operationalisation.” Furthermore, production activities are privileged in SOP analysis as “determinants of consumption practices” and...2012, David Goodman, E. Melanie DuPuis, Michael K. Goodman, “Bridging production and consumption: alternative food networks as shared knowledge practice”, in Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge...
- The chapter then explores new directions for conceptualizing the relationship between production and consumption, including proposals to modify the GVC approach or to develop entirely different frameworks, as advanced by proponents of the system of provision (SOP) and global poverty chain (GPC)...2019, Gavin Fridell, “Conceptualizing Political Consumerism as Part of the Global Value Chain”, in Magnus Boström, Michele Micheletti, Peter Oosterveer, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Political...
- Initialism of sum of parts.
- In like manner, the "not-SOP/ROP" complement of a system (SOP + ROP) is called the nature of the whole, or the organizing essence of a systemic whole. […] And it is there as an aspect of the whole which differs from the sum of parts (SOP) .1999, Grant Venerable, Managing in a Five Dimension Economy: Ven Matrix Architectures for New Organizations, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 19
- a stock analyst might refer to a DCF (discounted cash flow), DDM (dividend discount model), EVA (economic value added), NAV (net asset value) or SOP (sum of parts) calculation. Comparisons can be made against the stock's historic[…]2010, Jeremy Bolland, Writing Securities Research: A Best Practice Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 129
- Initialism of same-origin policy.
- Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”).
- Initialism of semen on picture.
Noun (3) capitalized: SoP
SoP (plural SoPs)
- Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“system/systems of provision”).
- In retrospect, it is worth mentioning that, going into the 1990s, the range of SoP applications expanded from private commodity consumption to public consumption—especially as the neoliberal drive to denationalize was peaking but being augmented by an accelerating pressure for privatization through...2020, Kate Bayliss, Ben Fine, “Insights from Operationalizing the Systems of Provision Approach”, in A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why, Cham: Palgrave...
- The SoP analysis seeks to connect the financing, funding, governance, production, and use of public services and allows for a comprehensive analysis of broader distributional implications of particular formations across the financing, funding, governance, production, and consumption nexus.2021, Maria Jose Romero, Elisa Van Waeyenberge, “Beyond typologies: what questions should we be asking?”, in Jasmine Gideon, Elaine Unterhalter, editors, Critical Reflections on Public Private...
- Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“sum of parts”).
- WiG-SoP? / [ECOSYSTEM (science)] Yes (unequivocal) emergent hierarchical / SCALE / [MANAGEMENT (governance)] No (< SoP?) reductionist sectoral […] WiG-SoP = Whole is Greater than Sum of Parts; […]2006, Bruce G. Hatcher, Roger H. Bradbury, “Marine ecosystem managements: is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?”, in Donald R. Rothwell, David L. VanderZwaag, editors, Towards Principal...
- All my price-targets are a blend between DCF and Sum of the Parts (SoP). So for all of our stocks, we have one DCF value and one SoP value and the price target is between these two.2008 fall, Shahed Imam, Richard Barker, Colin Clubb, quoting a technology analyst, “The Use of Valuation Models by UK Investment Analysts”, in European Accounting Review, volume 17, number 3...
Also used as
sop is also the ellipsis of sop to Cerberus.
sop is also the ellipsis of milksop.
sop is also the clipping of soprano.
sop meaning in Persian
sop in Persian
- piece of food to be soaked
- تریت terit
Examples of sop in a sentence
- I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.
- Maybe double-dipped (sopped with gravy), hot and sweet (with giardiniera and peppers).
- Quickly, I gathered up some paper towels and sopped up my mess.
Forms of sop
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sops |
| plural | SOPs |
| plural | SoPs |
| alternative form (obsolete) | soppe |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sops |
| present participle | sopping |
| past participle | sopped |
| past | sopped |
Origin of sop
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 *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.
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Questions about sop
- What does sop mean?
- Sop means something entirely soaked.
- What is sop in Persian?
- Sop in Persian is تریت (terit). See Sop meaning in Persian.
- What part of speech is sop?
- Sop can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sop?
- Sop is pronounced /sɒp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sop?
- The plural of sop is sops.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sop (page history and authors); SOP (page history and authors); SoP (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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