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# soup

«soup» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hot liquid food made by cooking vegetables, meat, fish…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (soup, soups)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Soup is a hot liquid food made by cooking vegetables, meat, fish or other foods in water or stock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#m1)

2) «In the soup» (informal) means in trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an amount in bowls, cans, cups or liters; servings shared: bowls = total ÷ size of one bowl. Everyday: tomato soup, chicken soup, vegetable soup, a soup spoon, soup kitchen (free meals for people in need). Health: soup when you have a cold.

### examples

- A pot holds 4 liters of soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x1)
- Each bowl holds 250 mL of soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x2)
- She bought 6 cans of soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x3)
- How many bowls can be filled from the pot? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x4)
- Blow on your soup if it's too hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x5)
- Grandma's chicken soup makes me feel better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x6)
- We eat soup with a big round spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x7)
- The soup kitchen gives free meals every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x8)
- For dinner the Fox served soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/#x9)

### note

Usually uncountable: some soup, a bowl of soup; «soups» for kinds. Total soup ÷ size of one bowl = bowls. Trap: change liters to milliliters first (1 L = 1000 mL). We «eat» soup with a spoon (or «drink» it from a cup).

### In the corpora

- [Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/0/)
- [Metals conduct heat well, so a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot while a wooden one stays cool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/7/)
- [tāng (high) is soup and táng (rising) is sugar or sweets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/12/)
- [Soup is eaten quietly, sipping from the side of the spoon, without slurping.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/15/)
- [Eat quietly and sip soup from the side of the spoon; loud eating bothers others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «soup» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/soup/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.