Soap Soap is a salt of a fatty acid used in a variety of cleansing and lubricating products. In a domestic setting, soaps are surfactants usually used for washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping. In industrial settings, soaps are used ...

is a surfactant cleaning compound used for personal or other cleaning. Soap may also refer to:

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Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), also called The Match, is a United States-based private non-profit non-governmental organization created in 1952 to place U.S. medical school students into residency training programs located in Unite ...

, for medical students who were not initially matched with U.S. residencies by the National Resident Matching Program

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Soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

, ongoing, episodic work of fiction on TV or radio * ''Soap'' (TV series), a 1970s sitcom *

S.O.A.P. (duo) S.O.A.P. were a Danish pop music duet (music), duo made up of the two sisters Heidi "Suriya" Sørensen (born 18 October 1979) and Saseline "Line" Sørensen (born 26 July 1982). Their music was primarily songwriter, written by Remee and record p ...

, a Danish pop music duo * Sons of All Pussys, a Japanese band often abbreviated S.O.A.P. * Captain

Soap MacTavish John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional character in the ''Call of Duty'' story arc ''Modern Warfare''. He first appears as a main playable character in the 2007 video game '' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'' where he is part of the 22nd Special ...

, fictional soldier from the ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' series * Hotel Soap is an animated cartoon character in the '' Dr. Tran'' animated series of internet shorts * An abbreviation for '' Snakes on a Plane'', a 2006 film * "Soap" (song), Melanie Martinez single

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Sugar soap Sugar soap, as typically found in Commonwealth countries, is a cleaning material of variable composition sold for use on surfaces affected by greasy or tarry deposits which are not easily removed with routine domestic cleaning materials. Its name a ...

, a material used for cleaning surfaces before repainting *

SOAP Soap is a salt of a fatty acid used in a variety of cleansing and lubricating products. In a domestic setting, soaps are surfactants usually used for washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping. In industrial settings, soaps are used ...

(originally an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol), a protocol specification in computer networks * Spectrometric Oil Analysis Program, a method for testing the oil in aircraft engines for the concentration of critical metals to identify wear of engine parts * Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program, an assembly language for the IBM 650 computer * SOAP note, a method of documentation used in medical charts * Short Oligonucleotide Analysis Package, a bioinformatics package used for the assembly and analysis of DNA sequences * SOAP ("Simplify Obscure Algol Programs"), an Algol 60 prettyprinter

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