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Meaning of sauce

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

sauce

Pronunciation:/sɔːs//sɑs/

noun

Definitions

  1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

    Example: apple sauce; mint sauce

  2. Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

    Example: [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

  3. (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

    Example: Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

  4. Anabolic steroids.

verb

Definitions

  1. To add sauce to; to season.

  2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.

  3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

  4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

noun

Definitions

  1. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

    Example: The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.

  2. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

    Example: The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.

  3. A reporter's informant.

  4. Source code.