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soap

/soʊp/ sustantivo A2

En español: jabón, sopín

  1. A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning. (countable, informal, uncountable) · I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.· She went to the shop to buy soap, but they had run out.
  3. Money, specially when used as a bribe. (countable, slang, uncountable)
  4. A soap opera. (countable, informal)
  5. A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions. (countable)

Plural soaps

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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
The Jungle Book, p. 76 · B2
Accordingly, Anne washed her hair, scrubbing it vigorously with soap and water, but for all the difference it made she might as well have been scouring its original red.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 216 · C1
Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall’s Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mansion and grinned.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 8 · C1
Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones—came out to his waiting motor-car, wrinkling a contumelious nostril, as usual, at the Italian renaissance sculpture of the soap palace’s front elevation.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 8 · C1

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