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单词 soup
释义 soup
I. \ˈsüp\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French soupe, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse soppa soup — more at sop
1. often attributive : a liquid food having as a base a meat, fish, or vegetable stock, being clear or thickened to the consistency of a thin puree or having milk or cream added, and often containing pieces of solid food (as meat, shellfish, pasta, or vegetables)
2. : something having the consistency of soup: as
 a. : a plastic mixture of solid material with liquid
  < could not culture it in … any of the soups used to grow bacteria — G.W.Gray b.1886 >
  < manufacture … bookpaper from a soup of shredded woodpulp — Saturday Review >
 specifically : a very wet concrete or mortar mix
 b. : thick wet clouds or fog
  < talk airplanes down through the soup by … radar — Boeing Magazine >
 c. : nitroglycerin especially as used by safecrackers
  < drove to the powder house … to get some soup for a safecracking job — New York Times >
 d. : photographic developer
  < while the prints were in the soup — Florence Haas >
 e. : a thin solution of pyroxylin containing pigments used in coating fabrics (as for artificial leather)
3. : an unfortunate predicament : hot water — used in the phrase in the soup
 < caught him red-handed and now he's in the soup >

- from soup to nuts
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: from earlier soup substance injected into a racehorse to speed it up, from soup (I)
: to increase the power or efficiency of
 < souping the stock engine — Hot Rod Magazine >
— usually used with up
 < engineers had souped up the planes and some could climb as high as 20,000 feet — All Hands >
 < boys … buy old cars and soup them up — Gregor Felsen >
 < suspended mikes — souped up to pick up a wider range of sounds — Newsweek >
III. noun
(-s)
1. slang : horsepower
2. slang : added power of any kind
 < using a rifle powder in a pistol cartridge can give a load with too much soup >
IV. noun
: the fast-moving white water that moves shoreward after a wave breaks
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