Sauce
noun
A liquid or semi-solid food that is used to add flavor to other foods.
I put some tomato sauce on my spaghetti.
Often appears as...
- tomato sauce
- soy sauce
verb
To add sauce to a dish.
He sauced the steak before serving it.
Often appears as...
- sauce the pasta
- sauce the ribs
noun
Rude or impertinent behavior or speech.
She gave me some sauce when I asked about her homework.
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
Alcoholic drink.
He had too much of the sauce last night.
Often appears as...
- on the sauce
- hit the sauce
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
Embellishment or decoration.
She added some sauce to her story to make it more interesting.
Often appears as...
- add sauce
- too much sauce
noun
A liquid or semi-solid food that is used to add flavor to other foods.
I put some tomato sauce on my spaghetti.
Often appears as...
- tomato sauce
- soy sauce
verb
To add sauce to a dish.
He sauced the steak before serving it.
Often appears as...
- sauce the pasta
- sauce the ribs
noun
Rude or impertinent behavior or speech.
She gave me some sauce when I asked about her homework.
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
Alcoholic drink.
He had too much of the sauce last night.
Often appears as...
- on the sauce
- hit the sauce
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
Embellishment or decoration.
She added some sauce to her story to make it more interesting.
Often appears as...
- add sauce
- too much sauce
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Terms
Understand 'sauce' as part of cooking vocabulary, often appearing in recipes or on menus.
The recipe says to simmer the sauce for 20 minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variations
'Sauce' varies globally - it can be a dip in some countries or a cooking ingredient in others.
In Mexico, 'salsa' is a type of sauce often used as a dip.
Pro Tip 3/3Flavor Enhancer
Use 'sauce' to describe something added to food for extra flavor, not as the main ingredient.
This pasta needs a bit more sauce to enhance its taste.
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Terms
Understand 'sauce' as part of cooking vocabulary, often appearing in recipes or on menus.
The recipe says to simmer the sauce for 20 minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variations
'Sauce' varies globally - it can be a dip in some countries or a cooking ingredient in others.
In Mexico, 'salsa' is a type of sauce often used as a dip.
Pro Tip 3/3Flavor Enhancer
Use 'sauce' to describe something added to food for extra flavor, not as the main ingredient.
This pasta needs a bit more sauce to enhance its taste.
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Terms
Understand 'sauce' as part of cooking vocabulary, often appearing in recipes or on menus.
The recipe says to simmer the sauce for 20 minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variations
'Sauce' varies globally - it can be a dip in some countries or a cooking ingredient in others.
In Mexico, 'salsa' is a type of sauce often used as a dip.
Pro Tip 3/3Flavor Enhancer
Use 'sauce' to describe something added to food for extra flavor, not as the main ingredient.
This pasta needs a bit more sauce to enhance its taste.
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How sugar affects the...
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Choice, happiness and...
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How to decarbonize the...
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Andy Ruben: Making...
running out of resources and the other raw truth there are no sustainable products today products like this tomato sauce are part of a much larger system that simply must end will change we're
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A 750-Year-Old Secret:...
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mediterranean catchflight forms pink sauces around the corcoa trunks the evergreen umbrella-like canopy provides welcome shade for these light-sensitive flowers
Video examples
Sugar: Hiding in plain...
People get about half of their added sugars from those drinks and treats, so it might seem like sugar is hiding in plain sight, but like someone in the witness protection program, the other half is hidden in places you'd least suspect. Check the ingredients on ketchup, bologna, spaghetti sauce, soy milk, sports drinks,
Video examples
My journey from Marine...
It's a powerful thing, getting in a room with complete strangers and reminding ourselves of our humanity, and that self-expression is just as valuable a tool as a rifle on your shoulder. And for an organization like the military, that prides itself on having acronyms for acronyms, you can get lost in the sauce
Video examples
How cohousing can make...
and the sounds of social connectedness. At the bottom of the courtyard, there are a set of double doors, and those lead into the common house. I consider the common house the secret sauce of cohousing. It's the secret sauce because it's the place where the social interactions and community life begin,
Video examples
Elon Musk talks Twitter,...
you know cream sauce that would be quite nice but so so but the problem is so so so let's say someone says okay here's one tweet i hate politician x yeah next tweet is i wish polite politician x wasn't alive as we some of us have said about putin right now for example so that's
Video examples
How sugar affects the...
it's also added to tomato sauce, yogurt, dried fruit, flavored waters, or granola bars. Since sugar is everywhere, it's important to understand how it affects the brain. What happens when sugar hits your tongue? And does eating a little bit of sugar make you crave more?
Video examples
Choice, happiness and...
Instead, he looked at the data, and he said, let's see if we can group all these different data points into clusters. Let's see if they congregate around certain ideas. And sure enough, if you sit down, and you analyze all this data on spaghetti sauce,
Video examples
How to decarbonize the...
around the world. We need policy as the magic sauce to go through those four sectors in the biggest countries, in all countries. And one of the things that animates me is that this requires people who are concerned about climate change,
Video examples
Andy Ruben: Making...
running out of resources and the other raw truth there are no sustainable products today products like this tomato sauce are part of a much larger system that simply must end will change we're
Video examples
A 750-Year-Old Secret:...
the result in soy sauce is then bottled and shipped from humble beginnings in kazuo akiyama soy sauce has become a global phenomenon but its origins are protected and
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
mediterranean catchflight forms pink sauces around the corcoa trunks the evergreen umbrella-like canopy provides welcome shade for these light-sensitive flowers
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Quote examples
Kevin Systrom
American Businessman
Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.
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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
Different hot sauces fulfill different needs, and I wouldn't want anyone to live in a world in which each fridge held only one bottle.
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Brene Brown
American Author
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
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Thomas Friedman
American Journalist
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
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Elsa Maxwell
American Writer
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
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Future
American Musician
You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce.
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Xenophon
Greek Soldier
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Jose Andres
Spanish Chef
For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
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Joe Burrow
American Football Player
If you got a good steak you don't need A1 sauce.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Danger is sauce for prayers.
Quote examples
Kevin Systrom
American Businessman
Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.
Quote examples
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
Different hot sauces fulfill different needs, and I wouldn't want anyone to live in a world in which each fridge held only one bottle.
Quote examples
Brene Brown
American Author
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
Quote examples
Thomas Friedman
American Journalist
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
Quote examples
Elsa Maxwell
American Writer
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Quote examples
Future
American Musician
You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce.
Quote examples
Xenophon
Greek Soldier
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Quote examples
Jose Andres
Spanish Chef
For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
Quote examples
Joe Burrow
American Football Player
If you got a good steak you don't need A1 sauce.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Danger is sauce for prayers.
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