📖 S — The English dictionary · page 67

softball — Everyday, meaning 1: Softball is a team game like baseball, played on a smaller field with a bigger ball that is pitched underarm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A softball is the ball used in this game.↗ Example: We play softball in PE on Fridays.↗ · My sister is the pitcher on her softball team.↗ · The softball game was cancelled because of rain.↗ · A softball is bigger than a baseball.↗ · He hit the softball over the fence.↗ · Our team scored 7 runs in the softball match.↗ · Wear a helmet when you bat in softball.↗

soften — Everyday, meaning 1: To soften means to become softer or to make something softer («soften the butter»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To soften means to become or make something gentler, kinder or less strong («soften the blow», «her face softened»).↗ Example: Leave the butter out to soften before baking.↗ · The sun softened the chocolate in my pocket.↗ · Her face softened when she saw the kitten.↗ · Soak the beans to soften them.↗ · Try to soften your voice when you speak to the baby.↗ · Dad softened the bad news with a hug.↗ · Heat softens the wax so you can shape it.↗ · The ice cream softened quickly on the warm plate.↗ · The eyes of women brightened and softened when they looked at me.↗ · 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)↗ · There were formed seven double letters, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, Resh, Tau, each has two voices, either aspirated or softened.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

softhearted — Everyday, meaning 1: A softhearted person is kind, gentle and easily feels sorry for others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sometimes it means too kind, so that the person is easy to persuade.↗ Example: Grandma is so softhearted that she feeds every stray cat.↗ · The softhearted giant let the children go.↗ · Don't be softhearted — he's only pretending to cry.↗ · Mole was softhearted and could not bear to see anyone sad.↗ · The softhearted judge gave him a second chance.↗ · She was too softhearted to win the argument.↗

softie — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A softie is a kind, gentle person who is easily moved, often showing feelings openly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, teasing) A softie can be someone who is not tough or brave, or who gives in easily.↗ Example: My grandad looks grumpy but he is a big softie.↗ · Don't be such a softie; it is only a little rain!↗ · Our teacher is a softie when it comes to animals.↗ · The giant was a softie who loved flowers.↗ · Mum is a softie and always lets us stay up late.↗ · He cries at every film; he is a real softie.↗

softly — Everyday, meaning 1: Softly means quietly, not loudly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Softly means gently, with little force.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Softly can mean in a kind, tender way.↗ Example: Please speak softly; the baby is asleep.↗ · Snow fell softly on the roofs.↗ · She closed the door softly behind her.↗ · The music played softly in the background.↗ · He softly stroked the kitten.↗ · The wind blew softly through the trees.↗ · "It's all right," Grandma said softly.↗ · Tiptoe softly so you don't wake anyone.↗ · She answered softly, “Yes, dear Beast.”↗ · Forasmuch as this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoiceth with Rezin and Remaliah's son; (Prophets ISA.8.6, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath both spoken unto me, and Himself hath done it; I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.↗ (Prophets ISA.38.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn; and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.↗ (Writings RUT.3.7, JPS 1917)↗

softness — Everyday, meaning 1: Softness is being soft to touch: easy to press, smooth and gentle, like a pillow or a kitten's fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Softness is being quiet or gentle in sound or light: the softness of her voice, the softness of candlelight.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Softness is also gentleness and kindness in a person; sometimes it means being too weak or not strict enough.↗ Example: I love the softness of my new blanket.↗ · We tested the softness of different materials by pressing them.↗ · The softness of her voice calmed the baby.↗ · Talc is famous for its softness; you can scratch it with a fingernail.↗ · The softness of the morning light woke me gently.↗ · The coach said his softness with the team made them lazy.↗ · The kitten's fur has an amazing softness.↗ · In spite of the softness of the bed, he was very glad when morning came at last.↗ · The [33] seven double letters, בגד כפרת with a duplicity of pronunciation, aspirated and unaspirated, namely: ,תּת ,רּר ,פּפ ,כּכ ,דּד ,גּג ,בּב serve as a model of softness and hardness, strength and weakness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

software — Everyday, meaning 1: Software is the programs and apps that tell a computer, phone or other device what to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Examples: games, web browsers, word processors and operating systems.↗ Example: The computer needs new software to run the game.↗ · Software is the instructions; hardware is the parts you can touch.↗ · Always ask an adult before installing software.↗ · Dad updated the software on his phone.↗ · Programmers write software.↗ · Antivirus software protects your computer.↗

softy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A kind, gentle person who is easily moved or who can't be strict.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, teasing) Someone thought too weak or scared, a wimp.↗ Example: Grandpa looks grumpy, but he's a big softy.↗ · Don't be such a softy — the water's not that cold!↗ · Mum's a softy and always lets us stay up a bit later.↗ · The huge dog is a softy who's scared of cats.↗ · Our coach is strict, but she's a softy at heart.↗ · He pretends to be tough, but he cried at the film — what a softy!↗ · And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softy.↗ (Prophets 1KI.21.27, JPS 1917)↗

soggy — Everyday, meaning 1: Soggy means very wet and soft, often in an unpleasant way, like soggy cereal or soggy grass.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Soggy food has gone soft because it soaked up liquid or was kept too long.↗ Example: My cereal went soggy because I left it too long.↗ · The field was too soggy to play football on.↗ · Our sandwiches got soggy in the rain.↗ · Take off your soggy socks and put on dry ones.↗ · The cardboard box went soggy and fell apart.↗ · Nobody likes soggy chips.↗ · After the storm the garden was soggy and muddy.↗

soh — Everyday, meaning 1: (music) The fifth note of the do-re-mi (tonic sol-fa) scale: do, re, mi, fa, soh, la, ti, do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths, SOH) The first part of SOH CAH TOA, a memory aid for trigonometry.↗ e.g. Sine = Opposite ÷ Hypotenuse.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «SOH» short for «sense of humour», as in dating ads.↗ Example: Sing up the scale: doh, ray, me, fah, soh, lah, te, doh.↗ · Soh is the fifth note of the scale.↗ · In "Do-Re-Mi", Maria sings that "so" is a needle pulling thread.↗ · Remember SOH CAH TOA for your trigonometry test.↗ · SOH: sine is opposite over hypotenuse.↗ · Our choir warmed up by singing doh, me, soh, doh.↗

soil — Everyday, meaning 1: The top layer of the ground in which plants grow, made of tiny bits of rock, dead plants and animals, water and air.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Land or country: «on British soil».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Verb: to make something dirty (formal).↗ Example: Plants grow in soil.↗ · Earthworms make the soil healthy.↗ · Sandy soil lets water drain quickly.↗ · Clay soil is sticky when it's wet.↗ · Wash your hands after touching soil.↗ · We put compost in the soil to help the vegetables.↗ · Tree roots hold the soil in place.↗ · The soil was dry because it hadn't rained.↗ · He looked, and saw peasants tilling the soil.↗ · I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a leafy tree in its native soil.↗ (Writings PSA.37.35, JPS 1917)↗ · He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters, he set it as a slip.↗ (Prophets EZK.17.5, JPS 1917)↗ · It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a stately vine.↗ (Prophets EZK.17.8, JPS 1917)↗

sojourn — Everyday, meaning 1: A sojourn is a short stay in a place that is not your home (formal).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sojourn is to stay somewhere for a while as a visitor (formal, old-fashioned).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible) In the Bible, to sojourn is to live in a land as a stranger or traveller, as Abraham did.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: To live for a time in a land that is not your own, as a stranger or visitor.↗ Example: After a short sojourn in Scotland, they came home.↗ · The writer spent a sojourn by the sea.↗ · Our sojourn at Gran's farm lasted a week.↗ · The explorers sojourned in the desert for several days.↗ · Christians read that Abraham sojourned in a strange land.↗ · During his sojourn abroad he learned French.↗ · They told that they, in crossing Hungary, had sojourned in a mountainous country called Transylvania, where the inhabitants only spoke German, while all around them nothing was spoken but Hungarian.↗ · A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.12.45, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.↗ (Torah GEN.21.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.↗ (Torah LEV.19.33, JPS 1917)↗ · LORD, who shall sojourn in Thy tabernacle?↗ (Writings PSA.15.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.↗ (Writings PSA.105.23, JPS 1917)↗ · I am a sojourner in the earth; hide not Thy commandments from me.↗ (Writings PSA.119.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.↗ (Torah GEN.21.34, JPS 1917) · They told that they, in crossing Hungary, had sojourned in a mountainous country called Transylvania, where the inhabitants only spoke German, while all around them nothing was spoken but Hungarian.↗ (The Red Fairy Book) · And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.↗ (Torah LEV.19.33, JPS 1917)

sojourner — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who stays in a place for a time without being a full citizen, a temporary resident or stranger.↗ Example: Yea, very few, and sojourners in it, (Writings PSA.105.12, JPS 1917)↗ · and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.↗ (Prophets 2SA.4.3, JPS 1917)↗ · When ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it, (Writings 1CH.16.19, JPS 1917)↗

sol — Everyday, meaning 1: (space) Sol is a name for our Sun, from Latin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (space) A sol is one day on Mars, about 24 hours 40 minutes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (music) Sol (or so, soh) is the fifth note of the do-re-mi scale.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) A sol is a liquid with tiny solid bits spread through it (a kind of colloid).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The sol is the money of Peru.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (French) "Sol" means floor or ground; (Spanish, Portuguese) "sol" means sun — not English words.↗ Example: The Mars rover took a photo on its 200th sol.↗ · A sol on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day.↗ · Sol is the Latin name for the Sun.↗ · Sing do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do.↗ · In science fiction, Earth's sun is called Sol.↗ · The price was ten soles in a market in Lima.↗ · (French) "Le sol" means the ground or the floor.↗ · (Spanish) "Hace sol" means "it is sunny".↗

solace — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Comfort in sadness or trouble.↗ In Jewish tradition, meaning 2: A person or thing that gives comfort.↗ Example: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.↗ (Writings PRO.7.18, JPS 1917)↗ · This draught will be a solace for your troubles.↗ · Music was her solace when she was sad.↗ · His dog was a solace after the long journey.↗

solar — Everyday, meaning 1: Solar means to do with the Sun or coming from the Sun.↗ Example: Earth is the third planet in the solar system.↗ · Solar panels turn sunlight into electricity.↗ · My calculator is solar-powered.↗ · Never look at the Sun during a solar eclipse.↗ · Solar power is a renewable energy.↗ · Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.↗ · The solar lights in the garden come on at night.↗