English Dictionary

soup

/suːp/

noun

(countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl. / (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth. / (slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).

I ordered a bowl of soup.

意味（1）

(countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.

意味（2）

(uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.

意味（3）

(slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).

意味（4）

(US, slang) Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.

意味（5）

(cant) Dope (an illicit drug used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).

意味（6）

(photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.

意味（7）

(biology) A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.

primordial soup

意味（8）

(UK, informal, often with "the") An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.

B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. … “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”

意味（9）

(surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.