📖 S — The English dictionary · page 66

sociable — Everyday, meaning 1: Liking to meet and talk with other people; friendly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of an event) Friendly and relaxed, where people mix: a sociable evening.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of animals) Living and getting on well in groups.↗ Example: My little brother is very sociable and talks to everyone.↗ · Guinea pigs are sociable, so keep them in pairs.↗ · The barbecue was a sociable evening.↗ · She's not very sociable in the morning!↗ · Dolphins are sociable animals.↗ · Nurses often work unsociable hours.↗ · We were very sociable, and there was as much joking and fun as if we had been all of one family circle.↗

social — Everyday, meaning 1: Social means about people and how they live, meet and get on together in groups.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A social person likes to be with other people and to talk and play.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Social animals, like bees and wolves, live in groups.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A social (informal) is a party or get-together for a club or school.↗ Example: We learn about our town in social studies.↗ · My brother is very social and has lots of friends.↗ · Ants are social insects that live in colonies.↗ · You must be thirteen to use most social media apps.↗ · Sharing and taking turns are social skills.↗ · The school is having a social on Friday evening.↗ · A social worker helps families who need support.↗ · Lunchtime is a social time for talking with friends.↗ · Social success had not spoilt him; it had made him sweeter.↗

socialisation — Everyday, meaning 1: Socialisation is the way a child learns how to behave with other people and fit into their family, school and society: sharing, manners, language, rules and customs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: For animals, socialisation is getting a puppy or kitten used to people, other animals, sounds and places, so it is calm and friendly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal, money/politics) Putting a business or service under the control of the state or the community.↗ Example: School helps with children's socialisation, not just learning facts.↗ · Socialisation teaches us to say please and thank you.↗ · Our puppy goes to socialisation classes on Saturdays.↗ · Without good socialisation, a dog may be scared of strangers.↗ · Playing team games is part of socialisation.↗ · Different countries have different socialisation, so manners differ.↗ · Grandma says too much screen time can slow socialisation.↗

socialist — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who believes in socialism, the idea that a country's important businesses, land and wealth should be shared or controlled by the people or the government, so that everyone is treated more equally.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having to do with socialism or with a party that supports it.↗ Example: A socialist believes that wealth should be shared more equally.↗ · The socialist party wants free health care for all.↗ · Some countries have had socialist governments.↗ · In history we learnt about socialist ideas and workers' rights.↗ · Her grandfather was a socialist all his life.↗ · People argue a lot about whether socialist plans work well.↗ · The candidate described himself as a democratic socialist.↗

society — Everyday, meaning 1: Society is all the people living together in a country or the world, with their ways of life, rules and customs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A society is a group or club of people who share an interest or aim, like a science society or a drama society.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Society can mean being with other people, company.↗ Example: Laws help keep society safe and fair.↗ · We learnt how society was different long ago.↗ · My sister joined the school drama society.↗ · Everyone in society has rights and duties.↗ · The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds looks after wild birds.↗ · Kindness makes society a better place.↗ · Teachers and nurses do important work for society.↗ · There is neither society here, nor solitude.↗ · Womem's Prixting Society, Ltd., 66, Whitcomb Street, W.C.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The substance of this little volume was read as a [p. 13] Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

sock — Everyday, meaning 1: A sock is a soft piece of clothing worn on the foot inside a shoe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Socks come in pairs: a pair is 2 socks.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To sock someone (informal) is to hit them.↗ Example: He has 5 pairs of socks.↗ · A pack has 6 pairs of socks.↗ · How many socks are in 4 pairs?↗ · Each pair of socks costs $3.↗ · I can only find one sock!↗ · We made sock puppets with buttons for eyes.↗ · Wear warm woolly socks in winter.↗ · He is wearing odd socks today.↗ · And his shoes were right, and his waistcoat was right, and his tie was right, and his socks were right.↗

socket — Everyday, meaning 1: A socket is a hole in a wall or device where you push in a plug to get electricity; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ often called a power point (Australia) or plug socket, in the USA and Canada an outlet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A socket is a hollow place in the body where another part fits, like your eye socket or hip socket.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A socket is also a hollow part of an object or tool into which another part, such as the shaft of a spear, is fitted.↗ Example: Plug the lamp into the socket.↗ · Never put anything in a socket except a plug.↗ · Keep drinks away from sockets.↗ · The baby has plastic covers on the sockets.↗ · Your eye sits in your eye socket.↗ · The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint.↗ · The socket made a spark, so Dad turned off the power.↗ · Too many plugs in one socket can cause a fire.↗ · “You remember my spear with the thirty rivets of Arabian gold in its socket?”↗ · And their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.↗ (Torah EXO.26.21, JPS 1917)↗ · and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.↗ (Torah EXO.36.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: under every board two sockets.↗ (Torah EXO.36.30, JPS 1917)↗ · His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold; his aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.↗ (Writings SNG.5.15, JPS 1917)↗

sod — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of grass with the earth and roots under it; turf.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rude, UK, Ireland, Australia) An insulting word for an annoying or unpleasant person.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude, UK) «Poor sod»: an unlucky person you feel sorry for.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (rude, UK) «Sod it» or «sod this»: said when you are fed up and give up.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (rude, UK) «Sod off»: go away.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (UK, informal) «Sod's law»: the idea that if something can go wrong, it will.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Boiled, cooked in boiling liquid, in the past.↗ Example: They laid fresh sod on the football field.↗ · The mayor turned the first sod for the new school.↗ · (rude) «Sod off and leave me alone!»↗ · (rude) «Sod it, I'm going home,» said Dad.↗ · (rude) The poor sod missed the bus again.↗ · (UK) Of course it rained on sports day — Sod's law!↗ · (rude) «You lazy sod, get up!»↗ · And his horse cast up four sods with his four hoofs, like four swallows in the air about his head, now above, now below.↗ · And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.↗ (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and the holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.↗ (Writings 2CH.35.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.↗ (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917) · So soon as she touches with the root the sod that blocks the nest, it will fly violently out of the hole.↗ (The Crimson Fairy Book) · You remember the baskets I left there with the sod from Ireland in one and the sod from Scotland in the other; bring me the baskets and sods.”↗ (Irish Fairy Tales)

soda — Everyday, meaning 1: Soda is a sweet fizzy drink, like cola or lemonade (also called pop or soft drink).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Soda water is water with bubbles and no sugar.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Baking soda is a white powder used in baking and cleaning.↗ Example: A shop has 49 bottles of regular soda.↗ · It has 40 bottles of diet soda.↗ · How many bottles of soda in all?↗ · He drank 2 sodas.↗ · Too much soda is bad for your teeth.↗ · Mix baking soda and vinegar to make a volcano.↗ · She ordered a soda with her pizza.↗ · A can of soda has a lot of sugar.↗ · In some places soda is called pop.↗ · Soda water has bubbles but no sugar.↗

sodden — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Cooked by boiling, or soaked through with water.↗ Here it is an old form of "boiled".↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Boiled, cooked in boiling water.↗ Example: Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.12.9, JPS 1917)↗ · But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.↗ (Torah LEV.6.28, JPS 1917)↗ · The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.↗ (Writings LAM.4.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.12.9, JPS 1917) · When it was sodden she hung it on the shoulder of the poor girl, and gave her an axe, that she might go upon the frozen pond and cut a hole in the ice to drag the net.↗ (Grimm's Fairy Stories) · But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.↗ (Torah LEV.6.28, JPS 1917)

sodium — Everyday, meaning 1: Sodium is a soft, silvery-white metal element with the symbol Na; it is so reactive that it reacts strongly with water, sometimes fizzing and catching fire, so it is never found pure in nature.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sodium is part of many compounds, most famously sodium chloride, which is common table salt; «sodium» on a food label usually means salt in the food.↗ Example: Table salt is made of sodium and chlorine.↗ · Sodium is so soft you can cut it with a knife.↗ · The teacher dropped a tiny piece of sodium into water and it whizzed around.↗ · Too much sodium in food is not good for your heart.↗ · The label shows how much sodium is in the crisps.↗ · Old orange street lights were sodium lamps.↗ · Sodium bicarbonate makes cakes rise.↗ · The symbol for sodium is Na, from its Latin name «natrium».↗

sodom — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A city of ancient Canaan near the Dead Sea, destroyed with its neighbours by fire from heaven.↗ Example: Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD exceedingly.↗ (Torah GEN.13.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.↗ (Torah GEN.14.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.↗ (Torah GEN.18.22, JPS 1917)↗ · For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride; (Prophets EZK.16.56, JPS 1917)↗ · The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.↗ (Prophets ISA.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.↗ (Prophets ISA.13.19, JPS 1917)↗

sodomite — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person from Sodom, or in old translations a man who served as a temple prostitute.↗ Example: There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.↗ (Torah DEU.23.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.↗ (Prophets 1KI.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.↗ (Prophets 1KI.22.47, JPS 1917)↗ · And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.↗ (Prophets 2KI.23.7, JPS 1917)↗

sofa — Everyday, meaning 1: A sofa is a long, soft seat with a back and arms, for two or more people.↗ Example: We curled up on the sofa to watch a film.↗ · The cat is asleep on the sofa.↗ · Grandma's sofa has flowery cushions.↗ · Our sofa folds out into a sofa bed.↗ · I found a coin down the side of the sofa.↗ · Please don't jump on the sofa.↗ · The beautiful Persian, inconsolable at his departure, sank on a sofa bathed in tears.↗

soft — Everyday, meaning 1: Not hard or firm; easy to press or bend: a soft pillow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Smooth and nice to touch: soft fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Quiet and gentle: a soft voice, soft music.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Not bright: soft light.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Kind and gentle, or too easy on people: soft on rules.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Soft drinks: drinks without alcohol.↗ Example: The kitten has soft fur.↗ · My pillow is soft.↗ · She spoke in a soft voice.↗ · Clay is soft before it dries.↗ · Butter goes soft in the sun.↗ · I sleep with my soft toy.↗ · Sponge is a soft material.↗ · Grandpa has a soft spot for our dog.↗ · Too many soft drinks are bad for your teeth.↗ · Then a soft voice cried from the parlour:↗ · A soft and hard structure, a strong and weak structure.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The two sounds of each letter are the hard and the soft—the aspirated and the softened.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The two sounds of each letter are the hard and the soft — the aspirated and the softened.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · A soft answer turneth away wrath; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.↗ (Writings PRO.15.1, JPS 1917)↗ · By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.↗ (Writings PRO.25.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?↗ (Writings JOB.40.27, JPS 1917)↗