sauce

«sauce» in Mova's school dictionary: a thick liquid served with food to add flavour, such as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sauce, sauces; sauce)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sauce is a thick liquid served with food to add flavour, such as tomato sauce, gravy or chocolate sauce. tree →

2) In British slang, «sauce» also means cheeky talk. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children choose sauces: ketchup (tomato sauce), barbecue sauce, cheese sauce, soy sauce. In cooking lessons a recipe tells you how to make a sauce by stirring and heating. Phrases: «tomato sauce», «pasta sauce», «dip it in the sauce».

examples

• Can I have tomato sauce with my chips? tree →
• Dad made a cheese sauce for the pasta. tree →
• Dip the nuggets in barbecue sauce. tree →
• The pancakes came with chocolate sauce. tree →
• Stir the sauce so it doesn't burn. tree →
• In Australia «tomato sauce» means ketchup. tree →
• Tame ones are served with apple sauce and onion stuffing. tree →

note

Countable (a sauce, sauces) and uncountable (some sauce). Homophone in many accents: «source» (where something comes from). A «saucepan» is a pot for cooking. «Saucy» means cheeky.

In the corpora

• The Mole shouted «Onion-sauce!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sauce» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.