Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The soybean.
- noun Soy sauce.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind or sauce prepared in the East from the soy-bean (see def. 2).
- noun The soy-bean or-pea, Glycine Soja (Soja hispida, etc.).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soybeans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
- noun (Bot.) The
soybean .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A Chinese and Japanese liquid
sauce for fish, made by subjecting boiledbeans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. US preference is the termsoy sauce . - noun
Soybeans . Often used attributively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
- noun erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
- noun thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
- noun the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Basically chicken and/or pork in soy sauce & vinegar & garlic.
kateelliott: Query: Casseroles and Main Dishes that freeze well kateelliott 2009
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The soy sauce tasted like, well, plain soy sauce, and the chimichurri tasted like oil mixed with parsley.
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Make sure the soy foods you enjoy are not genetically modified and do not contain soy protein isolates and other undesirable ingredients, such as fructose, corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and flavors.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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Make sure the soy foods you enjoy are not genetically modified and do not contain soy protein isolates and other undesirable ingredients, such as fructose, corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and flavors.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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To me, soy is like the professional athlete that signs an unlimited use licensing agreement for his/her name and suddenly finds their image on the side of a cigarette box.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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The debate over the potential benefits and dangers of eating soy is ongoing and often heated.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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Marinate the breast meat in soy sauce or Dale's marinade for about 30 minutes.
Any good dove recipes besides my all time favorite of dove wrapped in bacon? 2009
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Marinate the breast meat in soy sauce or Dale's marinade for about 30 minutes.
Any good dove recipes besides my all time favorite of dove wrapped in bacon? 2009
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To me, soy is like the professional athlete that signs an unlimited use licensing agreement for his/her name and suddenly finds their image on the side of a cigarette box.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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The debate over the potential benefits and dangers of eating soy is ongoing and often heated.
Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell Craig Cooper 2010
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Fresh soy milk offers brighter flavor, fragrance, and personality—it’s just much tastier than any soy milk you can buy. Cookbook author Andrea Nguyen shares how to make soy milk at home in this step-by-step guide.
Soy Milk Is Better Fresh. Here’s How to Make It Yourself Andrea Nguyen 2021
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I mean don't get me wrong, oat milk is great. Almond milk is alright, I'll use it if I don't have any other alternatives... but soy milk?? Idk about ya'll, but I just think that stuff is the shit.
Does anyone else think that soy milk is the best milk alternative? OhSoNotS01mportant 2025
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In the hands of American technologists, Adventist missionaries, hippie environmentalists, and East Asian entrepreneurs, soy milk was always viewed as a food of the future, a salvific beige fluid that held the solution for all our nutritional, spiritual, and environmental travails.
A History of Soy Milk Editorial Process 2023
artoparts commented on the word soy
See: equol
November 18, 2008
john commented on the word soy
Loving Century def #2. Definitely time to see the term soy-pea come back into vogue.
April 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word soy
¡Yo soy P.!
April 6, 2011
yarb commented on the word soy
stout... erect... stem... hairs... sauce... oil expressed... residue... fertilze(r)...
Century dick-tionary.
April 6, 2011
bilby commented on the word soy
You love it yarb. Go on, soy it!
April 6, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word soy
That Webster's definition reminds me of Boba Fett and the sarlacc pit.
April 6, 2011
yarb commented on the word soy
My favourite scene from all the Star Wars movies.
April 6, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word soy
If I ever start a band, I might have to call it Boba Fett and the Sarlacc Pit.
April 6, 2011