Sop vs Protocol - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sop and protocol

is that sop is something entirely soaked while protocol is the minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.

As verbs the difference between sop and protocol

is that sop is to steep or dip in any liquid while protocol is to make a protocol of.

As an initialism SOP

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sop

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something entirely soaked.

* Shakespeare

The bounded waters / Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, / And make a sop of all this solid globe.

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

* Bible, John xiii. 26

He it is to whom I shall give a sop , when I have dipped it.

* Francis Bacon

Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.

Something given or done to pacify or bribe.

* L'Estrange

All nature is cured with a sop .

A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop

Gravy. (Appalachian)

(obsolete) A thing of little or no value.

(Piers Plowman)

Derived terms

* sippet

Verb

(sopp)

To steep or dip in any liquid.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1928 , title = American Negro Folk-Songs , first = Newman Ivey , last = White , location = Cambridge , publisher = Harvard University Press , page = 227 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=WCuuV-kRe70C&pg=PA277&dq=sop , passage = When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land. }}

* {{quote-news

, date = 1945-12-27 , title = Sopping Bread May Be Done , first = Emily , last = Post , authorlink = Emily Post , newspaper = The Spokesman-Review , url = http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&id=snRWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5333,6920966 , passage = So again let me say that sopping bread into gravy can be done properly merely by putting a piece down on the gravy and then soaking it with the help of a knife and fork as though it were any other food. But taking a soft piece of bread and pushing it under the sauce with your fingers, submerging them as well as the bread, or even wiping the plate with it would be very bad manners indeed. }}

Derived terms

* sop up

Anagrams

* Appalachian English ----

protocol

English

(wikipedia protocol)

Noun

(en noun)

* 1842 , Thomas Campbell, Frederick the Great and his Times , vol. II, p. 47:

Another account says that, on the morning of the 31st of May, the king delivered to the prince-royal the crown, the sceptre, and the key of his treasure and gave him his blessing. The privy-counsillor Vockerodt drew up at his desire a protocol of the transaction.

* 1970 , Matthew Smith Anderson, The Great Powers and the Near East, 1774-1923 , p. 32:

The terms of this protocol formed the basis for the Treaty of London signed by the British, French and Russian governments on 6 July 1827.

(international law) An amendment to an official treaty.

* 2002 , Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law , p. 917 n. 253:

The 1992 Protocol amended the definitions of other terms, including ‘ship’, ‘oil’ and ‘incident’: Art. 2.

The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.

* 1991 , Leila Avrin, Scribes, Script, and Books , p. 146:

They marked the beginning of each scroll with their protocol''''', a practice that continued in the papyrus trade in the Byzantine Empire [...] into the Islamic period, when there were bilingual ' protocols in Greek and Arabic.

The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.

* 1985 , Archivum Historiae Pontificiae , v. 23, p. 14:

The protocol of the bull contains elements that appear to be formulaic by the time of John XVIII 's pontificate.

(sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment; also, the precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.

* 1931 , Gye & Purdy, The Cause of Cancer , p. 194:

The following is an abstract of the protocol of the experiment: Tumour extract. —A measured 16 c.c. of minced Rous Sarcoma tissue was ground with sand and extracted with 400 c.c. of 0.8-per-cent. saline.

The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.

* 2009 , Laura Johnson, "A mwah too far", The Guardian , 19 Sep 2009:

Even the Queen (for whom the curtsey is a more standard address) was recently treated to an enthusiastic Obama embrace. Her Majesty, who is not normally known for partaking in such public displays of affection, seemed unperturbed by Michelle Obama's disregard for royal protocol .

(by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.

* 2010 , The Guardian , 16 Jul 2010:

For those uncertain in the protocol of handshaking a formula for the perfect handshake has been devised by scientists at the University of Manchester.

(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.

* 2006 , Zheng & Ni, Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing , p. 444:

An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).

(medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.

Synonyms

* procedure * policy

Verb

(obsolete) To make a protocol of.

(obsolete) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.

(Carlyle)

Anagrams

* ----