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Atloaxoid joint (health) and soup(1) (iou)


Atloaxoid joint (health)


"The joint between the atlas and axis bones. The atlas is the first cervical (neck) vertebra which is just under the head; it is named for Atlas, the Greek god who supported the world on his shoulders. The axis is the second cervical vertebra; it has what is called the odontoid process about which the atlas rotates."





soup(1) (iou)



soup noun. [su:p] ME.
[Old & mod. French soupe sop, broth poured on slices of bread, from late Latin suppa, from verb meaning 'soak', ult. from Germanic. Cf. SOP noun1, SUP verb1.]
A usu. savoury liquid Food made by boiling meat, fish, or Vegetables, etc., with seasoning in stock or water, and freq. served as a first course; a dish or variety of this. ME.
chicken soup, onion soup, tomato soup, etc.
Vogue For a more elegant soup, the chopped herb can be mixed with the sour cream.
b. Biology. A solution rich in organic compounds which made up the primitive oceans of earth and was the environment in which cellular life originated. Also primordial soup. M20.
a. Law. sing. & (occas.) in pl. Dock briefs. slang. M19.
b. Fog; thick cloud. Cf. PEA-SOUP 2. colloq. E20.
J. Gores Ballard watched the taillights recede into the soup.
c. Nitroglycerine or gelignite, esp. as used for safe-breaking. US slang. E20.
d. The chemical mixture used to develop photographic Film. slang. E20.
e. Surfing. Foam produced by a broken wave. M20.
Comb. & phrases: from soup to nuts N. Amer. colloq. from beginning to end; completely; in the soup colloq. in difficulties, in trouble; soup and fish colloq. men's evening dress, a dinner suit; soup-bone a bone used to make stock for soup; soup bunch US dial. a bundle of Vegetables sold for making soup; soupfin (shark) any of several slender grey sharks having a large dorsal fin, of the genus Galeorhinus; esp. G. zyopterus, found off the Pacific coast of N. America and once hunted for its liver and fins; soup-kitchen a place dispensing free soup etc. to the poor or unemployed; soup line US a queue for Food at a soup-kitchen; soup maigre [French soupe maigre] thin (esp. vegetable or fish) soup; soup man slang a safe-breaker using nitroglycerine etc.; soup-plate a deep wide-rimmed plate in which soup is served; soup-spoon a large round-bowled spoon for drinking soup; soup-stock: used as a base for making soup; soup-strainer colloq. a long moustache; soup-ticket: entitling a person to receive soup from a soup-kitchen.