Soap (disambiguation)

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 (film)", ("En Soap") a 2006 Danish/Swedish film directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen and starring 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), an award-winning, 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"
* Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish, a fictional SAS soldier and the main player character in the 2007 video game

SOAP may mean:

In computing:

* SOAP, a computing standard defining how to format messages used by web services
* Short Oligonucleotide Alignment Program an implementation of an algorithm that is 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, 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.

In electronics:
* Soap device, a mid-air pointing device built from optical mouse components.

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