What does sauce mean?
Definitions for sauce
sɔssauce
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sauce.
Princeton's WordNet
sauceverb
flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
sauceverb
behave saucily or impudently towards
sauceverb
dress (food) with a relish
sauceverb
add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
"sauce the roast"
Wiktionary
saucenoun
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food
saucenoun
cheek, impertinence
saucenoun
booze, alcohol
saucenoun
anabolic steroids
saucenoun
Vegetables.
saucenoun
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
saucenoun
Source; a term said when requesting the source of an image.
sauceverb
to add sauce to something
sauceverb
to act in a cheeky manner
Etymology: From sauce, from salsa, noun use of the feminine of salsus, past participle of salio, from sal.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SAUCEnoun
Etymology: sauce, saulse, French; salsa, Italian.
The bitter sauce of the sport was, that we had our honours for ever lost, partly by our own faults, but principally by his faulty using of our faults. Philip Sidney.
To feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. William Shakespeare.Such was the sauce of Moab’s noble feast,
’Till night far spent invites them to their rest. Abraham Cowley.He that spends his time in sports, is like him whose meat is nothing but sauces; they are healthless, chargeable, and useless. Taylor.
High sauces and rich spices are fetched from the Indies. Thomas Baker.
To Sauceverb
Etymology: from the noun.
Earth yield me roots;
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
With thy most operant poison. William Shakespeare.Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatnings, so that we were in a great perplexity, restrained to so unworthy a bondage, and yet restrained by love, which I cannot tell how, in noble minds, by a certain duty, claims an answering. Philip Sidney.
All the delights of love, wherein wanton youth walloweth, be but folly mixed with bitterness, and sorrow sauced with repentance. Edmund Spenser.
Thou say’st his meat was sauc’d with thy upbraidings;
Unquiet meals make ill digestions. William Shakespeare.
Wikipedia
Sauce
In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsa, meaning salted. Possibly the oldest recorded European sauce is garum, the fish sauce used by the Ancient Romans, while doubanjiang, the Chinese soy bean paste is mentioned in Rites of Zhou in the 3rd century BC. Sauces need a liquid component. Sauces are an essential element in cuisines all over the world. Sauces may be used for sweet or savory dishes. They may be prepared and served cold, like mayonnaise, prepared cold but served lukewarm like pesto, cooked and served warm like bechamel or cooked and served cold like apple sauce. They may be freshly prepared by the cook, especially in restaurants, but today many sauces are sold premade and packaged like Worcestershire sauce, HP Sauce, soy sauce or ketchup. Sauces for salad are called salad dressing. Sauces made by deglazing a pan are called pan sauces. A chef who specializes in making sauces is called a saucier.
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sauce
A sauce is a liquid or semi-liquid substance used to add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to food. It may be prepared in various ways such as boiling, simmering or blending ingredients together. Sauces can be savory or sweet, and may be served with the dish or on the side for added taste. They are used in many types of cuisine throughout the world.
Webster Dictionary
Saucenoun
a composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc
Saucenoun
any garden vegetables eaten with meat
Saucenoun
stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc
Saucenoun
sauciness; impertinence
Sauceverb
to accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor
Sauceverb
to cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to
Sauceverb
to make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive
Sauceverb
to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to
Saucenoun
a soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump
Etymology: [F.]
Wikidata
Sauce
In cooking, a sauce is liquid, cream or semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsa, meaning salted. Possibly the oldest sauce recorded is garum, the fish sauce used by the Ancient Greeks. Sauces need a liquid component, but some sauces may contain more solid elements than liquid. Sauces are an essential element in cuisines all over the world. Sauces may be used for savory dishes or for desserts. They can be prepared and served cold, like mayonnaise, prepared cold but served lukewarm like pesto, or can be cooked like bechamel and served warm or again cooked and served cold like apple sauce. Some sauces are industrial inventions like Worcestershire sauce, HP sauce, or nowadays mostly bought ready-made like soy sauce or ketchup, others still are freshly prepared by the cook. Sauces for salads are called salad dressing. Sauces made by deglazing a pan are called pan sauces. A cook who specializes in making sauces is a saucier.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sauce
saws, n. a liquid seasoning for food, consisting of salt, &c.: fruit stewed with sugar: a relish: impudence.—v.t. to put sauce in to relish: to make poignant: to gratify the palate: to treat with bitter or pert language: to make suffer.—ns. Sauce′-alone′, a cruciferous plant with a strong garlic smell, Jack-by-the-hedge; Sauce′-boat, a vessel with a spout for holding sauce; Sauce′-box, an impudent person; Sauce′-cray′on, a soft, black pastel used for backgrounds; Sauce′pan, a pan in which sauce or any small thing is boiled; Sauce′pan-fish, the king-crab.—Poor man's sauce, hunger; Serve one with the same sauce, to requite one injury with another, to make to suffer. [Fr. sauce—L. salsa, neut. pl. of salsus, pa.p. of salīre, salsum, to salt—sal, salt.]
Editors Contribution
sauce
A type of food created and formed in various colors, ingredients and recipes,
There are so many varieties of sauce on the condiment aisle.
Submitted by MaryC on April 18, 2020
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SAUCE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sauce is ranked #59470 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Sauce surname appeared 340 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sauce.
70.5% or 240 total occurrences were White.
25.8% or 88 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.7% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sauce' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4253
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sauce' in Nouns Frequency: #2148
Anagrams for sauce »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sauce in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sauce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of sauce in a Sentence
No one said comfort food can’t be healthy. So I filled this hearty chili with white meat chicken, three kinds of beans, hominy and a warm and zesty sauce, it’s a stick-to-your-ribs kind of dish that fills you up and warms your soul. And since there’s no meat to brown, you can just throw everything in and get on with your day.
I had never tasted yellow rice before that, we ate it with sambal (a spicy sauce) and it was delicious.
The irony for me is meat is the normal star of the show, but I like all of the sides, fixings and vegetables, roast some vegetables, of course, but make sure you have a great slaw and innovate a little bit. Maybe do some slaws with some new flavors : soy sauce, fish sauce and brighten everything up with a lot of acids like citrus to match with the fats and to pair well with your beer.
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.
We are so poor, sometimes we have nothing but cooking oil and soy sauce to eat with rice. How could he possible sell drugs?, i want to fight for him but I'm scared that whoever did this will come back for us.
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Translations for sauce
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- sousAfrikaans
- مَرَق, صَلْصَة, مَرَقةArabic
- падліўка, соўсBelarusian
- cоcBulgarian
- omáčkaCzech
- sawsWelsh
- sovsDanish
- Sauce, SoßeGerman
- σάλτσαGreek
- saŭcoEsperanto
- chupe, salsaSpanish
- kasteEstonian
- saltsaBasque
- سسPersian
- soppa, kastikeFinnish
- sósFaroese
- sauceFrench
- anlannIrish
- sùghScottish Gaelic
- רוטבHebrew
- चटनीHindi
- mártás, szósz, szemtelenségHungarian
- սոուսArmenian
- sausIndonesian
- saucoIdo
- sósaIcelandic
- salsaItalian
- ソースJapanese
- საწებელიGeorgian
- соусKazakh
- ទឹកជ្រលក់Khmer
- 소스Korean
- embamma, sūcusLatin
- ZoossLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ນ້ຳແກງ, ຍັງ, ນ້ຳຈິ້ມ, ນໍ້າແຈ່ວLao
- padažasLithuanian
- mērceLatvian
- сос, преливMacedonian
- sosMalay
- onbeleefd zijn, onbeleefde opmerkingen, saus opdoen, sausDutch
- sausNorwegian
- sosPolish
- molhoPortuguese
- sosRomanian
- соус, подливкаRussian
- умак, umak, sos, сосSerbo-Croatian
- omáčkaSlovak
- omakaSlovene
- salcëAlbanian
- såsSwedish
- சாஸ்Tamil
- น้ำปลา, ซอสThai
- salçaTurkish
- підлива, соусUkrainian
- xốt, nước chấm, tươngVietnamese
- sodVolapük
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