sauce
noun
- 1
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
“apple sauce; mint sauce”
- 2
Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
“[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce”
- 3
(usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
“Maybe you should lay off the sauce.”
- 4
Anabolic steroids.
- 5
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
- 6
Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
- 7
(1800s) Vegetables.
- 8
Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
Synonyms
verb
- 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
- 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
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
A reporter's informant.
- 4
Source code.
- 5
The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
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