Sofa

Sofa may refer to:

In general:

  • A piece of furniture also called a couch
  • Sofa slave-soldiers in the Mali Empire and its successor states.
  • Russian Hypocoristic for the name Sofiya

In music:

  • Any of four bands of overlapping eras:
    • Sofa (Dutch band), a post-indie band active since the late 1990s
    • Sofa (American band), a post-grunge funk band active through the 1990s
    • Sofa (Canadian band), a Montreal-based band that was active from 1993 to 1997
    • SOFA (Polish band), a ToruĊ„-based band active through 2003
    • Sofa (Thai band), a Thai band active from 2001
      • Not to be confused with the band Couch
  • "Sofa No.1" and "Sofa No.2" are tracks on the 1975 album One Size Fits All album by Frank Zappa

As an abbreviation SOFA:

  • SOFA, which stands for Status of Forces Agreement, an agreement between a country and a foreign nation stationing military forces in that country.
  • SOFA, an abbreviation for the international expositions of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA NEW YORK & SOFA CHICAGO)
  • SOFA, an abbreviation for Soft Out of Focus Area, and alternative to the term Bokeh
  • SOFA score, an acronym for Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score
  • SOFA district, a neighbourhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  • SOFA (Simulation Open Framework Architecture), an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time physical simulation
  • SOFA component system, an Open Source framework for designing and implementing component-based applications
  • SOFA (Astronomy), Standards of Fundamental Astronomy software libraries
  • SOFA (power generation) Separated Over-Fire Air, a technology for reducing NOx emissions from power station boiler combustion.

Famous quotes containing the word sofa:

    “There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she’s tired of liftin’ that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin’ him on the sofa so he won’t catch cold. Tonight we’re for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We’re goin’ to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.”
    —Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)

    “Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)