Chili vs. Soup — What's the Difference?

The pungent fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum, used especially as a flavoring in cooking. Also called chili pepper.

Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth.

A stew made of meat or beans (or both) and usually tomatoes, spiced with chili peppers or chili powder.

A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.

(countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.

Dense fog.

(uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

Nitroglycerine.

(Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.

Primordial soup.

A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.

A chaotic or unfortunate situation.

(Cincinnati) Cincinnati chili.

Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.

A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum

(countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.

Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans

(uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.

Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

(figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.

(slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).

Or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.

(cant) dope (an illicit drug used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).

(photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.

(biology) A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.

An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.

(surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.

Alternative form of sup

(uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.

(photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.

(obsolete) To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.

Alternative form of sup

(obsolete) To sweep.

A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, - commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.

To sup or swallow.

To breathe out.

To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.

Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food

Any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup

An unfortunate situation;

Dope (a racehorse)