Soap (disambiguation)

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

Soap may also refer to:

• Any fatty acid salt, which may have cleaning, lubricant, anticaking or cosmetic uses
• Detergent, cleaning substance with soap-like properties
• Soap shoes, type made for Grinds (skateboarding)

In film:

• En Soap, 2006 Danish comedy film
• Soap, character from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Snakes on a Plane (SoaP), 2006 horror-thriller feature film

In television:

• Soap (TV series), award-winning 1970s sitcom
• Soap opera, ongoing, episodic work of fiction on TV or radio

In fiction:

• Soap, a substance in the book Cloud Atlas
• Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish, main character in the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare video game

SOAP may refer to:

In computing and electronics:

• SOAP (protocol), formerly known as 'Simple Object Access Protocol'
• 'Short Oligonucleotide Alignment Program', source code program used in bioinformatics
• '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', computer language used by the IBM 650
• 'Satellite Orbit Analysis Program', software used for simulating satellite communications
• 'Syndicated Online Audio Programming', also known as a 'podcast'
• 'Soap', a mid-air pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse (computing)

Other uses:

• S.O.A.P., Danish pop music duo, now disbanded
• 'SOAP note', acronym for 'subjective, objective, assessment and plan', a method of documentation used in medical charts
• 'Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology', medical non-profit organization
• 'Small Operator Assistance Program', federal program from the Office of Surface Mining
• 'Soap bar', low quality form of hashish
• 'Strategy On A Page', concise methodology used in Strategic planning

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