soda
/ˈsoʊdə/ noun A2- Sodium bicarbonate.
- Sodium carbonate.
- Sodium in chemical combination.
- Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).
- Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
- A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
- The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.
Plural sodas
From the library
“You see, Watson,” he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, “it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day.
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