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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#m1)

2) In British slang, «sauce» also means cheeky talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#x1)
- Dad made a cheese sauce for the pasta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#x2)
- Dip the nuggets in barbecue sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#x3)
- The pancakes came with chocolate sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#x4)
- Stir the sauce so it doesn't burn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#x5)
- In Australia «tomato sauce» means ketchup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#x6)
- Tame ones are served with apple sauce and onion stuffing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#x7)

### 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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sauce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.