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Soad Hosny
Soad Hosny (سعاد حسني), the "Cinderella of Egyptian cinema", was an Egyptian actress and singer (born 1942 or 1943, Cairo; died June 2001, London) who starred in more than 83 films from 1959 to 1991, including Khalli Balak min Zouzou.
Soaked in Bleach
Soaked in Bleach (2015) is Benjamin Statler's docudrama about private investigator Tom Grant, hired by Courtney Love before Kurt Cobain's 1994 death, arguing homicide; criticized, disputed by experts and police.
Soaking (sexual practice)
Soaking is slang for penetrative sex without thrusting, framed as a premarital-sex loophole among Latter-day Saints and BYU students. It went viral on TikTok in 2020-2021 and via TV shows, but researchers call it largely a rumor; it carries normal STI and pregnancy risks.
Sōami
Sōami (相阿弥), also called Shinso, was a Japanese painter and garden designer of the Muromachi period, the last of the three Ami advisors to the Ashikaga shoguns.
Soamsawali (โสมสวลี)
Princess Soamsawali (โสมสวลี), Krom Muen Suddhanarinatha, Thai princess, first wife of King Vajiralongkorn (married 1977, divorced 1993), mother of Princess Bajrakitiyabha, and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for HIV prevention in Asia Pacific.
Soap
Soap is a cleaning substance made of fatty acid salts through saponification, lifting dirt and microbes so water can rinse them away, a key public health tool.
SOAP
SOAP, originally Simple Object Access Protocol, is an XML-based messaging protocol standardized by the W3C, used to exchange structured information between software over HTTP and other protocols.
Soap (TV series)
Soap (1977–1981) is Susan Harris's ABC satirical sitcom parodying daytime soap operas, following the Tate and Campbell families, starring Billy Crystal as Jodie Dallas, and spinning off Benson.
Soap made from human corpses
Soap made from human corpses refers to the World War II claim that Nazi Germany made soap from murdered Jews, uncorroborated except for a small experimental operation at Danzig.
SOAP note
SOAP note: Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan progress-note format invented by Lawrence Weed for the problem-oriented medical record (1964/1968); APSO variant moves assessment and plan to the top; widely used in EHRs and AI note generation.
Soap opera
Soap opera: long-running serialized radio and TV drama of continuing characters and open-ended storylines; coined in the 1930s US press for soap-sponsored daytime serials; distinct from the closed, finite telenovela.
Soap Opera Digest Awards
Soap Opera Digest Awards, originally The Soapys (1977–83), were reader-voted soap opera honors from Soap Opera Digest magazine, televised on NBC from 1984 to 2000, ending with a 2005 magazine announcement.
Soap opera effect
The soap opera effect is the hyper-realistic, video-like appearance films acquire when a TV's motion smoothing artificially raises their frame rate above 24 frames per second.
Soapdish
Soapdish is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Michael Hoffman that satirizes daytime soap operas, starring Sally Field, Kevin Kline, and Robert Downey Jr.
Soapnet
Soapnet was an American basic cable channel owned by Disney/ABC, launched in 2000, that aired soap operas around the clock until Disney replaced it with Disney Junior in 2013.
Soapstone
Soapstone, also called steatite, is a soft metamorphic rock composed primarily of talc, named for its soapy feel and used since ancient times for carvings, countertops, and wood stoves.
Soapy Smith
Soapy Smith, born Jefferson Randolph Smith (1860–1898), American con man famous for the Prize Package Soap Sell, crime boss of Denver and Skagway, killed July 8, 1898 in a Skagway wharf shootout.
Soar (cognitive architecture)
Soar is a cognitive architecture, developed by John Laird at the University of Michigan, that models human cognition and intelligent agents through production rules and chunking.
SOAR-CSNI trial
SOAR-CSNI (NCT04890925) is a UBC randomized, double-masked, three-arm trial of a community support network intervention (cognitive training, aerobic exercise, mindfulness, counselling) for women with intimate partner violence-related traumatic brain injury, enrollment 78, started May 2022.
Soarin'
Soarin' (Soarin' Over California, Soarin' Around the World, Soarin' Across America) is Disney's hang-glider flying-theater attraction, opened 2001 at Disney California Adventure, with an 80-foot dome, 87 riders, Jerry Goldsmith score, and parks at EPCOT, Shanghai, and Tokyo DisneySea.
Soaring Society of America
The Soaring Society of America (SSA) is the national governing body for the sport of gliding in the United States, founded in 1932 with almost 10,000 members.
SOAS University of London
SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), founded 1916 in Bloomsbury, is a University of London specialist public research university for Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with 5,000+ students, Development Studies ranked 2nd globally (QS 2026), and the UK's National Research Library for those regions.
Sob Gangri
Sob Gangri, also called Yuzhu Peak (玉珠峰), is a 6,178 m ultra-prominent peak in Qinghai, China, the highest of the eastern Kunlun Mountains, near the Qingzang Highway and a well-known introductory high-altitude climb.
SOB-five-like
SOB-five-like (SOFL, InterPro IPR044670) is a plant-specific protein family named after Arabidopsis SOB5, defined by conserved SOFL-A and SOFL-B domains and acting as positive modulators of cytokinin levels in flowering plants.
Soba (蕎麦)
Soba (蕎麦) is a Japanese buckwheat-flour noodle, typically bound with wheat flour (nihachi soba) or funori seaweed (hegi soba). Defined by the earliest 1574 sobakiri record at Joshō-ji in Nagano, Edo-era popularity, Kanto versus Kansai broth, and mandatory allergen labeling.
Soba East
Soba East is the archaeological site of Soba, capital of the medieval Nubian Kingdom of Alwa, located on the Blue Nile about 15 km from Khartoum, Sudan.
SoBe
SoBe (South Beach Beverage) is an American herbal tea and 'healthy refreshment' drink brand founded in 1995 by John Bello and Tom Schwalm, named for South Beach, Florida, with its two-lizard logo; PepsiCo bought it in 2000 for about $370 million.
Sobek
Sobek (Sebek, Suchos), the crocodile god of ancient Egypt, worshipped from Narmer's reign to Roman times; cult centers at Kom Ombo and the Fayum; merged with Re as Sobek-Re and with Horus under Dynasty 12.
Sobekemhat
Sobekemhat, also written Sobkemhet, was a high official of Egypt's 12th Dynasty, buried in a mastaba beside King Senwosret III's pyramid at Dahshur around the 19th century BC.
Sobekemsaf (13th Dynasty official)
Sobekemsaf was an official of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, around 1700 BC, who governed Thebes and is attested by four monuments, above all a statue in Vienna.