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pop++ - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Soda \So"da\, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making
glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having
probably been a name of glasswort. See Solid.]
1. (Chem.)
(a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
(b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Sodium
bicarbonate is also called baking soda
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2. same as sodium, used in terms such as bicarbonate of soda
.
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3. same as soda water.
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4. a non-alcoholic beverage, sweetened by various means,
containing flavoring and supersaturated with carbon
dioxide, so as to be effervescent when the container is
opened; -- in different localities it is variously called
also soda pop, pop, mineral water, and minerals.
It has many variants. The sweetening agent may be natural,
such as cane sugar or corn syrup, or artificial, such as
saccharin or aspartame. The flavoring varies widely,
popular variants being fruit or cola flavoring.
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Caustic soda, sodium hydroxide.
Cooking soda, sodium bicarbonate. [Colloq.]
Sal soda. See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium.
Soda alum (Min.), a mineral consisting of the hydrous
sulphate of alumina and soda.
Soda ash, crude sodium carbonate; -- so called because
formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain
other plants, as saltwort (Salsola). See under Sodium.
Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted
with delivery tube, faucets, etc.
Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of
sodium hydroxide, used in soap making.
Soda niter. See Nitratine.
Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically,
sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts.
Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of
calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a
useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc
process of soda manufacture; -- called also alkali waste
.
Washing soda, sodium carbonate. [Colloq.]
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Soda pop \So"da pop\, n.
a popular non-alcoholic beverage, sweetened by various means,
containing flavoring and supersaturated with carbon dioxide,
so as to be effervescent when the container is opened; -- in
different localities it is variously called also soda,
pop, mineral water, and minerals. It has many variants.
The sweetening agent may be natural, such as cane sugar or
corn syrup, or artificial, such as saccharin or aspartame.
The flavoring varies widely, popular variants being fruit
juices, fruit sirups, cream, or cola flavoring; the soda pop
is usually served chilled.
Note: Several large corporations started primarily as
bottlers of soda pop, such as Coca-Cola,
Pepsi-Cola, and Dr. Pepper.
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Pop \Pop\, v. t.
1. To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring
suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head
in at the door.
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He popped a paper into his hand. --Milton.
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2. To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains
of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.
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3. To eat or swallow; -- of food, especially snacks, in small
pieces; as, he popped a whole can of peanuts while
watching the movie.
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To pop off,
(a) to thrust away, or put off promptly; as, to pop one
off with a denial. --Locke.
(b) to make a statement, or series of statements,
forcefully and in an opinionated manner; as, he popped
off about his dislike of modern art.
To pop the question, to make an offer of marriage to a
lady. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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Pop \Pop\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Poop.]
1. A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go
off with a pop. --Addison.
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2. A nonalcoholic carbonated beverage; -- so called because
it expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing
it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc. --Hood.
Syn: soda, soda pop, minerals.
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3. (Zool.) The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
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Pop corn.
(a) Corn, or maize, of peculiar excellence for popping;
especially, a kind the grains of which are small and
compact.
(b) Popped corn; corn which has been popped.
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Pop \Pop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Popped (p[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb.
n. Popping.]
1. To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets
popped away on all sides.
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2. To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement;
to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in,
out, upon, off, etc.
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He that killed my king . . .
Popp'd in between the election and my hopes. --Shak.
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A trick of popping up and down every moment.
--Swift.
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3. To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as,
this corn pops well.
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Pop \Pop\ (p[o^]p), adv.
Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly. "Pop goes his plate."
--Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster] popcorn
pop++ - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
POP++
An object-oriented extension of POPLOG. Available from
Integral Solutions.
[Jargon File]
pop++ - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :
POP
Package for Online Programming
POP
Point Of Presence (Internet, ISP)
pop++ - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
228 Moby Thesaurus words for "pop":
Babbittish, Babbittry, Methuselah, Philistine, abba, abruptly,
alcoholic drink, antediluvian, antique, back number, bad taste,
bag, ballad, balloon, bang, bark, belly, belly out, beverage,
bilge, billow, blast, bouge, bourgeois, bourgeois taste, bug,
bulge, bump, burst, camp, campiness, campy, catch, chink, click,
clink, clop, clump, clunk, common, commonplace, conservative,
crack, crump, dad, daddy, dash, detonate, detonation, dilate, ding,
dip, discharge, distend, dodo, drink, drinkable, dull thud, elder,
explode, explosion, father, flick, flump, fogy, fossil,
foster father, frosted, frosted shake, fud, fuddy-duddy, fulminate,
fulmination, fusillade, general, genitor, go, go off, goggle,
governor, granny, gunshot, has-been, hastily, high camp, high-camp,
hit, hit tune, hock, homely, homespun, impetuously, impignorate,
impropriety, impulsively, inappropriateness, indecency,
indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy,
kitsch, kitschy, light music, like a flash, like a thunderbolt,
liquid, liquor, longhair, low camp, low-camp, malt, matriarch,
mid-Victorian, mortgage, mossback, nail, of a sudden, old,
old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man,
old poop, old woman, old-timer, on short notice, ordinary, pa, pad,
pap, papa, pappy, pat, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, patter,
philistinism, pitapat, pitter-patter, plebeian, pledge, plop,
plump, plunk, pooch, poor taste, pop culture, pop music, pops,
popular, popular music, popular song, potable, potation, pouch,
pout, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, public, rap,
reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, round out, salvo, shake,
sharp, shot, sire, slap, slog, smack, smite, sock, soda, soda pop,
soda water, soft drink, song hit, spout, square, stab, stagger,
starets, startlingly, stepfather, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly,
swat, swell, swell out, tap, tastelessness, the old man, thud,
thump, tick, tinkle, tonic, traditionalist, try, tunk,
unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unawares, unbecomingness,
unexpectedly, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability,
unsuitableness, vernacular, volley, vulgar taste, vulgarism,
vulgarity, vulgarness, whack, whirl, without notice,
without warning
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