soda
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Noun (2)sodas
- a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paperSynonyms: sodium carbonatewashing sodasal sodasoda ashType of salt
- a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring“in New England they call sodas ‘tonics’”Synonyms: popsoda popsoda watertonicType of soft drinkMade of soda water, carbonated water
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Translations
Noun sweet, carbonated drink
- Spanish
- gaseosa
- French
- soda
- German
- Limonade
- Italian
- bibita
- Portuguese
- refrigerante
- Russian
- газиро́вка gaziróvka
- Chinese
- 汽水 qìshuǐ
- Japanese
- 炭酸飲料 tansan inryō
- Dutch
- frisdrank
- Polish
- napój gazowany
Noun carbonated water
- Spanish
- soda
- French
- eau pétillante
- German
- Soda
- Italian
- soda
- Portuguese
- soda
- Russian
- газиро́вка gaziróvka
- Arabic
- صودا ṣūdā
- Chinese
- 苏打 sūdá
- Japanese
- ソーダ水 sōda-sui
- Dutch
- frisdrank
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having probably been a name of glasswort. See Solid.
1. Chemistry (a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide. (b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate is also called baking soda
2. same as sodium, used in terms such as bicarbonate of soda.
3. same as soda water.
4. a non-alcoholic beverage, sweetened by various means, containing flavoring and supersaturated with carbon dioxide, so as to be effervescent when the container is opened; — in different localities it is variously called also soda pop, pop, mineral water, and minerals. It has many variants. The sweetening agent may be natural, such as cane sugar or corn syrup, or artificial, such as saccharin or aspartame. The flavoring varies widely, popular variants being fruit or cola flavoring.
Caustic soda, sodium hydroxide. — Cooking soda, sodium bicarbonate. colloquial — Sal soda. See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. — Soda alum Mineralogy, a mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of alumina and soda. — Soda ash, crude sodium carbonate; — so called because formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain other plants, as saltwort (Salsola). See under Sodium. — Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted with delivery tube, faucets, etc. — Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of sodium hydroxide, used in soap making. — Soda niter. See Nitratine. — Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts. — Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc process of soda manufacture; — called also alkali waste. — Washing soda, sodium carbonate. colloquial
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<language> (SODA) The symbolic assembler for a one-level storage virtual machine for the English ELectric DEUCE.
["SODA Manual of Operation", R. C. Brigham and C. G. Bell, School of Elec Eng, U New S Wales, Sydney, NSW, 1958].
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