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sauce
(sôs)n.
1. A flavorful liquid or semisolid condiment or mixture of ingredients served as a topping or other accompaniment to food.
2. Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
3. Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
4. Informal Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.
5. Slang Alcoholic liquor.
tr.v. sauced, sauc·ing, sauc·es
1. To season or flavor with sauce.
2. To add piquancy or zest to.
3. Informal To be impertinent or impudent to.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, from Latin, feminine of salsus, past participle of sallere, to salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]
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sauce
(sɔːs)n
1. (Cookery) any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour
2. (Cookery) anything that adds piquancy
3. (Cookery) US and Canadian stewed fruit
4. (Cookery) dialect US vegetables eaten with meat
5. informal impudent language or behaviour
vb (tr)
6. (Cookery) to prepare (food) with sauce
7. to add zest to
8. to make agreeable or less severe
9. informal to be saucy to
[C14: via Old French from Latin salsus salted, from salīre to sprinkle with salt, from sal salt]
ˈsauceless adj
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sauce
(sɔs)n., v. sauced, sauc•ing. n.
1. any liquid or semiliquid preparation, as gravy or a condiment, eaten as an accompaniment to food.
2. stewed fruit, usu. puréed: cranberry sauce.
3. something that adds piquance or zest.
4. Informal. impertinence; sauciness.
5. Slang. hard liquor (usu. prec. by the).
v.t. 6. to dress with a sauce.
[1300–50; < Middle French < Late Latin salsa, derivative of Latin salsus salted, past participle of sallere to salt]
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sauce
Past participle: sauced
Gerund: saucing
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| Noun | 1. |  sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to fooddish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" condiment - a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment; "mustard and ketchup are condiments" anchovy sauce - made of white sauce and mashed anchovies hot sauce - a pungent peppery sauce hard sauce - butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddings horseradish sauce, sauce Albert - creamy white sauce with horseradish and mustard tartar sauce, tartare sauce - mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish wine sauce - white or veloute sauce with wine and stock variously seasoned with onions and herbs; for fish or meat marchand de vin, mushroom wine sauce - brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or Madeira bread sauce - creamy white sauce made with bread instead of flour and seasoned with cloves and onion plum sauce - for Chinese dishes: plum preserves and chutney peach sauce - for Chinese dishes: peach preserves and chutney apricot sauce - for Chinese dishes: apricot preserves and chutney pesto - a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil ravigote, ravigotte - veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers remoulade sauce - a mayonnaise sauce flavored with herbs and mustard and capers; served with e.g. salad and cold meat dressing, salad dressing - savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type barbecue sauce - spicy sweet and sour sauce usually based on catsup or chili sauce hollandaise - eggs and butter with lemon juice bearnaise - a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice Bercy, Bercy butter - butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley bordelaise - brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine bourguignon, bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce - reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter brown sauce, sauce Espagnole - bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc. Espagnole, sauce Espagnole - brown sauce with tomatoes and a caramelized mixture of minced carrots and onions and celery seasoned with Madeira brown sauce, Chinese brown sauce - a sauce based on soy sauce chocolate sauce, chocolate syrup - sauce made with unsweetened chocolate or cocoa and sugar and water cocktail sauce, seafood sauce - usually catsup with horseradish and lemon juice Colbert, Colbert butter - butter creamed with parsley and tarragon and beef extract demiglace, demi-glaze - sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry gravy - a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats pasta sauce, spaghetti sauce - any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta mole - spicy sauce often containing chocolate hunter's sauce, sauce chausseur - brown sauce and tomato puree with onions and mushrooms and dry white wine mushroom sauce - brown sauce and sauteed mushrooms mustard sauce - sauce of prepared mustard thinned with vinegar and vegetable oil with sugar and seasonings Nantua, shrimp sauce - white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter Hungarian sauce, paprika sauce - veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onion and paprika and cream pepper sauce, Poivrade - for venison: brown sauce with sauteed vegetables and trimmings and marinade and plenty of pepper Smitane - veloute or brown sauce with sauteed chopped onion and dry white wine and sour cream Soubise, white onion sauce - veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onions and whipping cream brown onion sauce, Lyonnaise sauce - brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegar veloute - white sauce made with stock instead of milk allemande, allemande sauce - egg-thickened veloute |
| Verb | 1. | sauce - behave saucily or impudently towards |
| 2. | sauce - dress (food) with a relish cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" | |
| 3. | sauce - add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast" |
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sauce
noun dressing, dip, relish, condiment, jus (French) pasta cooked in a sauce of garlic
Sauces
apple, à la king, barbecue, Béarnaise, béchamel, black bean, bolognese or bolognaise, Bordelaise, brandy butter or hard sauce, bread, brown, chasseur, chaudfroid, cheese, chilli, chocolate, chow-chow, coulis, cranberry, cream, creole, cumberland, curry, custard, French dressing, fudge, gravy, hoisin, hollandaise, horseradish, ketchup, mayonnaise, Melba sauce, mint, mornay, mousseline, nam pla or fish sauce, orange, oyster, pesto, piccalilli, red pesto, rémoulade, Russian dressing, sabayon, salad cream, salad dressing, salsa, salsa verde, soubise, soy sauce, shoyu, or tamari, suprême, sweet-and-sour, Tabasco (trademark), tartare, tomato, velouté, verjuice sauce, vinaigrette, white, wine, Worcester or WorcestershireCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
sauce
nounInformal. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident:
assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness.
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Translations
صَلْصَةصَلْصَه، مَرَق
omáčka
sovs
kastikesoppa
umak
mártásszemtelenségszósz
sósa
ソース
소스
sucus
prikaistuvis
mērce
sos
omáčka
omaka
sås
น้ำปรุงรส
xốt
sauce
[sɔːs]A. N
1. (savoury) → salsa f; (sweet) → crema f
tomato sauce → salsa f de tomate; (= ketchup) → salsa f de tomate, ketchup m
chocolate sauce → crema f de chocolate
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander → lo que es bueno para uno es bueno para el otro
see also apple B
see also cheese C
see also cranberry B
see also mint 2 B
see also orange C
see also soya B
see also white C
tomato sauce → salsa f de tomate; (= ketchup) → salsa f de tomate, ketchup m
chocolate sauce → crema f de chocolate
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander → lo que es bueno para uno es bueno para el otro
see also apple B
see also cheese C
see also cranberry B
see also mint 2 B
see also orange C
see also soya B
see also white C
B. CPD sauce boat N → salsera f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
sauce
[ˈsɔːs] n (to eat) → sauce fpasta with tomato sauce → des pâtes à la sauce tomate
pasta with a seafood sauce → des pâtes aux fruits de mer
chocolate sauce → sauce f au chocolat
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
sauce
n
sauce
:sauce boat
n → Sauciere f
saucebox
n (inf) → Frechdachs m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
sauce
(soːs) noun a usually thick liquid that is poured over other food in order to add moisture and flavour. tomato sauce; an expert at making sauces.
ˈsaucy adjective slightly rude. a saucy remark.
ˈsaucily adverbˈsauciness noun
ˈsaucepan (-pən) , ((American) -pan) noun
a deep pan usually with a long handle for boiling or stewing food.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
sauce
→ صَلْصَة omáčka sovs Soße σάλτσα salsa kastike sauce umak salsa ソース 소스 saus saus sos molho соус sås น้ำปรุงรส sos xốt 酱汁Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009