sauce

/sɔːs//sɑs/

noun

  1. 1

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

    apple sauce; mint sauce
  2. 2

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

    [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
  3. 3

    (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

    Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
  4. 4

    Anabolic steroids.

  5. 5

    A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

  6. 6

    Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

  7. 7

    (1800s) Vegetables.

  8. 8

    Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To add sauce to; to season.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

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

noun

  1. 1

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

    The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.
  2. 2

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

    The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.
  3. 3

    A reporter's informant.

  4. 4

    Source code.

  5. 5

    The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

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