Sop vs. Sow

Something entirely soaked.

A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.

Something given or done to pacify or bribe.

A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop

(Appalachian) Gravy.

(obsolete) A thing of little or no value.

A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

(transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.

(intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

Example: ‘He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.’; ‘Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.’; ‘The bounded watersShould lift their bosoms higher than the shores,And make a sop of all this solid globe.’;

Anything given to pacify; - so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.

Example: ‘All nature is cured with a sop.’;

A thing of little or no value.

Example: ‘Garlands of roses and sops in wine.’;

To steep or dip in any liquid.

piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid

a concession given to mollify or placate;

Example: ‘the offer was a sop to my feelings’;

a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely;

Example: ‘rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries’;

give a conciliatory gift or bribe to

be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid

dip into liquid;

Example: ‘sop bread into the sauce’;

mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface;

Example: ‘swab the floors’;

become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid

cover with liquid; pour liquid onto;

Example: ‘souse water on his hot face’;

A sop is a piece of bread or toast that is drenched in liquid and then eaten. In medieval cuisine, sops were very common; they were served with broth, soup, or wine and then picked apart into smaller pieces to soak in the liquid.

A female pig.

A female bear.

A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

A contemptible, often fat woman.

A sowbug.

(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.

(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

Example: ‘When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.’; ‘As you sow, so shall you reap.’;

(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.

(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.

To sew. See Sew.

To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

Example: ‘A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.’; ‘And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.’;

To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

Example: ‘The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.’; ‘[He] sowed with stars the heaven.’; ‘Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.’;

To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.

Example: ‘They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.’;

The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

A sow bug.

A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.

an adult female hog

place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;

Example: ‘She sowed sunflower seeds’;

introduce into an environment;

Example: ‘sow suspicion or beliefs’;

place seeds in or on (the ground);

Example: ‘sow the ground with sunflower seeds’;