soap

1. a cleaning or emulsifying agent made by reacting animal or vegetable fats or oils with potassium or sodium hydroxide. Soaps often contain colouring matter and perfume and act by emulsifying grease and lowering the surface tension of water, so that it more readily penetrates open materials such as textiles

2. any metallic salt of a fatty acid, such as palmitic or stearic acid

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What does it mean when you dream about soap?

A dream about soap is typically a dream about something that needs to be “cleaned up” in some fashion. Perhaps we need to “clean up our act,” or just “come clean” about something.

soap

[sōp]

(materials)

A particular type of detergent, in which the water-solubilizing group is a carboxylate, COO‒, and the positive ion is usually sodium, Na⁺, or potassium, K⁺.

A soap compound mixed with a fragrance and other ingredients and then cast into soap bars of different shapes.

soap

A brick or tile of normal face dimensions, having a nominal 2-in. (5-cm) thickness.

SOAP

(protocol)

Simple Object Access Protocol.

SOAP

(language)

Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program.

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SOAP

(Simple Object Access Protocol) A message-based protocol based on XML for accessing services on the Web. Initiated by Microsoft, IBM and others, it employs XML syntax to send text commands across the Internet using HTTP. SOAP is similar in purpose to the DCOM and CORBA distributed object systems, but is lighter weight and less programming intensive. Because of its simple exchange mechanism, SOAP can also be used to implement a messaging system. SOAP is supported in COM, DCOM, Internet Explorer and Microsoft's Java implementation. See UDDI, .NET Framework and REST.

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Soap

(dreams)

Some dream symbols are more difficult to interpret than others. Using soap in a dream seems to have obvious connotations, a need for cleansing and purification. Consider all of the details of your dream and think about what needs to be cleaned or refreshed. Washing with soap in your dream could refer to the cleaning up of your physical environment, your thoughts and feelings, or the resolution of a particular situation in life.

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