SOC

Definition: SOC

SOC

Noun

1. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.

2. Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

3. The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SOC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Domain	Definition
Census	(Survey of Construction) Provides information on the number of new housing units built in the United States. (Manufacturing and Construction Division). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SOC	English	Standard Oil California	Chemical Industry
Soc.An.	French	Société anonyme	Finance, Law
Soc.	Italian	Societa	Business, Industry
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Jurisdiction	Noun: jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc; executive, commission of the peace; magistracy; (authority).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: SOC

English words defined with "SOC": Soke, Soken. (references)

Specialty definitions using "SOC": Directed Oc ♦ LE/1 ♦ MOTSS ♦ OC, Ondine ♦ ProSet ♦ smurf. (references)

Etymologies containing "SOC": Sucken. (references)

Non-English Usage: "SOC" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Occitan (bole, tree trunk), Romanian (elder), Scottish (fore end of anything; ploughshare, forepart of anything, snout), Serbo-Croatian (coffee grounds, grounds, sediment).

Domain	Title
Books	A Mother's Book of Traditional Household Skills: A Classic Guide to Raising Children, Keeping House, Tending Garden, Home Remedies, Entertaining, soc (reference) Ion-Solid Interactions for Materials Modification and Processing: Materials Research Society Symposium Processing Proceedings (Materials Research soc (reference) Mechanical Behavior of Diamond and Other Forms of Carbon: Symposium Held April 17-21. 1995, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (Materials Research soc (reference) Microelectromechanical Structures for Materials Research: Symposium Held April 15-16, 1998 , San Francisco, California, U.S.a (Materials Research soc (reference) SOC. D'INVESTISSEMENT DE TRANSFORMATION: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Compendium : A Publication Of The North American Sundial Soc (reference) Financial Company Ratings Soc (reference) Journal Of The Afro American Historical And Genealogical Soc (reference) Nihon Kikai Gakkai Rombunshu - Transactions Japan Soc Mech Engineers - Series A (reference) Nihon Shokuhin Kagaku Kogakkaishi = Jrnl Of Jap Soc Of Food Science And Tech (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Eyes on the Prize:Time Has Come/2 Soc (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	DPT DPT-SOC Server On Call Kit with Soc Sw SCSI2 Ext Cable 3 Int Cable (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Fishing gear at the SOC Corporation Fishing Tackle Warehouse. Credit: Fisheries.		Pl. CXXI. 408. Linophryne lucifer, Collett. From Collett, "Proceed. of the Zool. Soc. of London", 1886. 409. Caulophryne setosus, Goode and Bean. At N. Lat. 39.45, W. Lon. 71.25, in 1276 fathoms. 410. Halieutaea coccinea, Alcock. From Alcock, "Annals and Magazine of Natural History", Ser. 6, Vol. VIII. 411. Malth opsis luteus, Alcock. From Alcock, "Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.", Ser. 6, Vo. VIII. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
	Operating at sea during the later 1930s. She has three SOC aircraft on her catapults. The original photograph is dated 20 March 1951, about a dozen years after it was actually taken. Credit: NAVY.		Ships of the invasion force steaming out of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi area during the afternoon of 9 August 1942. Photographed from USS Chicago (CA-29), the view looks westward, with Guadalcanal island in the background. USS Crescent City (AP-40) is at the left. A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane is in the foreground, on Chicago's starboard catapult. Credit: NAVY.
	Enters Havannah Harbor, Efate, New Hebrides, as seen from USS Columbia (CL-56) on 22 April 1943. Note the Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane in the right foreground, and the worn paintwork on Montpelier's hull, forward and amidships, with apparently fresh paint further aft. Credit: NAVY.		Destroyers alongside USS Lexington (CV-2) to assist in the carrier's abandonment, after she had been mortally damaged by fires and explosions during the afternoon of 8 May 1942. Photographed from a cruiser (probably USS Minneapolis). Note SOC scouting plane, with a damaged wingtip, on the cruiser's port catapult. Credit: NAVY.
	Flies a long "Homeward Bound" pennant as she departs the Western Pacific for overhaul in San Francisco, California, 13 April 1945. She had been operating in the combat zone since January 1944. View looks aft from the ship's island, with her SK-1 radar antennna at left and other shipping in the distance. Aircraft on Cabot's deck include (from right front): OS2U, SOC, TBM, SB2C, F4U and F6F types. Credit: NAVY.		VCS-7 pilots are briefed before flying a gunfire spotting mission over the Normandy beach heads, circa June-July 1944. The squadron had temporarily switched from its SOC floatplanes to British "Spitfire" fighters for this operation. Those present are (from left to right): Wing Commander Robert J. Hardiman, RAF, Commanding Allied Spotter Pilots; Ensign Robert J. Adams, USNR; Major Noel East, British Army Intelligence; Lieutenant Harris Hammersmith, Jr., USNR; and Captain John Ruscoe, Royal Artillery, Gunnery Liaison Officer. Photo was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 17 February 1945. Credit: NAVY.
	A U.S. Navy SOC "Seagull" floatplane flies over Wotje Atoll, during the attack on the Japanese airfield there by gunfire from USS Salt Lake City (CV-25) and USS Northampton (CA-26)) and fighters from USS Enterprise (CV-6), 1 February 1942. The original picture caption identifies the burning facilities as an ammunition dump and two fuel dumps. Credit: NAVY.		A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft drops a message as it flies over USS Augusta (CA-31), during operations off North Africa in November-December 1942. Note the message capsule that has just been tossed out by the plane's observer. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Such expenditures on SOC projects will generate a positive effect on the construction equipment market. (references)
		In 1999, one of the Korean government's top priorities was to revive the sluggish construction industry including SOC projects and the housing construction market. (references)
		This large increase was due to demand generated by several extensive new subway construction projects, SOC projects, and the "new city" residential construction projects. (references)
Minorities	Vietnam	Soc Trang province authorities opened 10 libraries for Khmer ethnic minority group members as part of an ongoing multiyear program to improve cultural and entertainment facilities in minority communities. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"SOC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.29% of the time. "SOC" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	52.29%	80	37,112
Noun (proper)	43.14%	66	41,290
Unclassified Items	3.27%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	1.31%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	153	N/A

Expression using "SOC": soc and sac. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "SOC": soc-held, soc-iety.
	Ending with "SOC": sihanoukist-soc.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "SOC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"力光学系数. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		社会資本 (social capital). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゃかいしほ�" (social capital). (various references)

Pig Latin		ocsay.(various references)

Russian		соц.. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "SOC": socage, socager, socagers, socages, soccage, soccages, soccer, soccers, sociabilities, sociability, sociable, sociableness, sociablenesses, sociables, sociably, social, socialise, socialised, socialises, socialising, socialism, socialisms, socialist, socialistic, socialistically, socialists, socialite, socialites, socialities, sociality, socialization, socializations, socialize, socialized, socializer, socializers, socializes, socializing, socially, socials, societal, societally, societies, society, sociobiological, sociobiologies, sociobiologist, sociobiologists, sociobiology, sociocultural, socioculturally. (additional references)
	Words containing "SOC": antisocial, antisocialist, antisocialists, antisocially, asocial, associate, associated, associates, associateship, associateships, associating, association, associational, associationism, associationisms, associationist, associationistic, associationists, associations, associative, associatively, associativities, associativity, biosocial, biosocially, cassock, cassocks, consociate, consociated, consociates, consociating, consociation, consociational, consociations, disassociate, disassociated, disassociates, disassociating, disassociation, disassociations, dissociabilities, dissociability, dissociable, dissocial, dissociate, dissociated, dissociates, dissociating, dissociation, dissociations, dissociative. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words ending with "oc": Ploc, ROC. (additional references)

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	Direct Anagrams: cos.
	Words within the letters "c-o-s"
	-1 letter: os, so.
	Words containing the letters "c-o-s"
	+1 letter: cobs, cods, cogs, cols, cons, coos, cops, cors, cosh, coss, cost, cosy, cots, cows, coys, docs, mocs, ocas, orcs, rocs, scop, scot, scow, sock.
	+2 letters: ascot, blocs, bocks, calos, canso, capos, ceros, chaos, chops, chose, chows, cions, cisco, clods, clogs, clons, clops, close, clots, cloys, coals, coast, coats, cobbs, cocas, cocos, codas, codes, coeds, coffs, cohos, coifs, coils, coins, coirs, cokes, colas, colds, coles, colts, comas, combs, comes, comps, cones, conks, conns, conus, coofs, cooks, cools, coons, coops, coots, copes, copse, cords, cores, corks, corms, corns, corps, corse, cosec, coses, coset, cosey, cosie, costa, costs, cotes, coups, coves, cowls, coxes, cozes, crocs, crops, cross, crows, cusso, decos, disco, docks, echos, escot, flocs, focus, hocks, hocus, icons, jocks, lochs, locks, locos, locus, mocks, nocks, onces, orcas, osmic, pisco, pocks, rocks, schmo, scion, scoff, scold, scone, scoop, scoot, scope, scops, score, scorn, scots, scour, scout, scowl, scows, scrod, scudo, secco, shock, sicko, smock, socko, socks, socle, sodic, sonic, stock, stoic, tacos, torcs, uncos, voces, yocks.
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Country	Name
USA	Equitable Life Assurance Soc o
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
soc	196	code interconnect network soc vhdl	4
code soc	25	high node ring soc speed	4
soc credit union	19	security soc	4
roc n soc	14	buffer fifo interconnect network soc	4
american cancer soc	13	sec.gov soc	4
soc trang	11	interconnect network soc vhdl	4
sec soc	10	red soc	3
air moc nike soc	8	node ring soc vhdl	3
building nationwide soc	8	soc medium	3
2000 am chem j soc	7	building halifax soc	3
am chem j soc	6	drum n roc soc throne	3
humane soc	6	design soc tool	3
nokia soc	5	chicago soc white	3
death index sec soc	5	biker soc	3
chem j soc	5	bromwich building soc west	3
moc nike soc	4	controller ring soc verilog	2
boston red soc	4	jp.net soc	2
seg soc.com	4	death sec soc	2
device soc	4	relay soc station	2
interconnect network novel soc	4	j.moscow phys soc	2
soc gen	4	soc design	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SOC

Definition: SOC

SOC

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SOC

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