Soap (disambiguation)

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Soap is a surfactant cleaning compound used for personal or minor cleaning.

Soap may also mean:

• Any fatty acid salt, which may have cleaning, lubricant, anticaking, cosmetic, or other uses
• Detergent, a substance with soap-like properties
• Soap shoes, a type of shoe made for grinding

In film:

• A Soap, (En Soap) from Nimbus Film, a 2006 Danish/Swedish co-produced film directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen. It was awarded at that years Berlin International Film Festival and starred Trine Dyrholm & David Dencik.
• Soap, a character from the 1998 British comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Snakes on a Plane (SoaP), a 2006 movie starring Samuel L. Jackson

In television:

• Soap (TV series), a very controversial 1970s sitcom starring Katherine Helmond and Cathryn Damon
• Soap opera, a melodramatic television series

In fiction:

• "Soap", a fictional substance in the book Cloud Atlas

SOAP may mean:

In computing:

• SOAP, a computing standard defining how to format messages used by web services
• Solaris Operating System, Oracle Database, Apache HTTP Server, and PHP; a collection of software packages used for web services — see LAMP (software bundle)
• Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program, assembly language used by the IBM 650 computer
• Satellite Orbit Analysis Program, computing software used for simulating satellite communications
• Syndicated Online Audio Programming, otherwise known as a podcast.

Other uses:

• S.O.A.P., a duo of Danish singers
• Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (medicine)
• Subjective Objective Assessment Plan (medicine), an approach to medical record charting
• Small Operator Assistance Program (mining), a U.S. government initiative to provide financial and technical assistance to small coal mines
• Slang for a certain type of cannabis resin