Potash soap, any soap made with potash, especially. The soft soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil. Pumice soap, any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as silica , alumina, powdered pumice, etc, which assists mechanically in the removal of dirt. Resin soap, a yellow soap containing resin, used in bleaching. Silicated soap, a cheap soap containing water glass sodium silicate. Science: botany See quillaia bark. Soap bubble, a hollow iridescent globe , formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe ; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.
This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. Shairp Soap cerate , a cerate formed of soap, olive oil , white wax , and the subacetate of lead , sometimes used as an application to allay inflammation. Soap fat , the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses, etc, used in making soap.
Science: alchemy Soap liniment, a liniment containing soap, camphor, and alcohol. Soap nut , the hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the soapberry tree, used for making beads , buttons, etc. Science: botany Soap plant , same as soapberry tree. Soda soap, a soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps are all hard soaps. Soft soap, a s oap of a gray or brownish yellow colour, and of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the lye from wood ashes.
Phrases Related to soap soap powder. Style: MLA. More Definitions for soap. English Language Learners Definition of soap Entry 1 of 2. Kids Definition of soap Entry 1 of 2. Kids Definition of soap Entry 2 of 2. Medical Definition of soap. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary.
Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words? Love words? Need even more definitions? The syntagmatic strand is understood as the causal chain of events, the ongoing, developing 'story' of the soap.
These commodities are soap , wood, coal, and nails by weight used in construction and repairs. This equation governs for instance the shape of a soap film stretched between two circular rings. Any reported use of soap was verified by screening for the presence of soap in the unit.
Graded teacher-talk in the classroom, motherese, international business negotiations between nonnative speakers and scripted television soap operas would all be classified as authentic. When you go to the bathroom, every piece of soap around is identical, so they're very much into predictability. No soap or change of clothes was allowed. Cages were washed with soap and rinsed with clean water between trials to remove any residues from the previous treatment.
The conclusion of this line of reasoning is absurd: protoconsciousness of soap bubbles. They were given no soap and no instructions for hand washing. At first, soap bubbles filled with various gases were tried, but this approach was soon abandoned.
If a soap bubble has any form of primal consciousness, that protoconsciousness would be of an elastic spherical form under stress, as a unitary gestalt. The clean and moist socks were new and had been washed once without soap. See all examples of soap. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations with soap. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.
Filters 0. Words form: soaped soaping soaps. See word origin. A substance used with water to produce suds for washing or cleaning: soaps are usually sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, produced by the action of an alkali, as caustic soda or potash, on fats or oils.
The most popular alternatives that exist are vegetable and castile soaps. These soaps are made from the oils of plants and vegetables and are much less harmful on the environment.
Fragrances in soaps are chemically- made rather than being the extract of any flower. Most anti-bacterial soaps have been shown to contain MIT, or methylisothiazolinone , and many contain Triclosan , a chemical registered with the EPA as a pesticide and is quite similar in composition as Agent Orange which causes nerve damage in both animals and people. The Centers for Disease Control indicate that the use of anti-bacterial soap is not necessary to control the spread of bacteria. Simply washing your hands with every day soap is sufficient to loosen bacteria from the skin and, once loosened, the bacteria will simply wash away upon rinsing your hands.
A cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules , flakes , or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats.
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