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# saucer

«saucer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, shallow plate that a cup stands on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a saucer, saucers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A saucer is a small, shallow plate that a cup stands on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#m1)

2) A saucer is also anything round and flat like this («a flying saucer» is a story spaceship). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life saucers catch drips from cups and are used under plant pots; in table manners, you put the cup back on the saucer. In stories «flying saucers» are alien spacecraft, and «eyes like saucers» means very wide eyes from surprise or fear. Phrases: «cup and saucer», «flying saucer», «eyes as big as saucers».

### examples

- Put the cup back on its saucer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x1)
- The cat drank milk from a saucer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x2)
- Grandma uses her best cups and saucers for guests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x3)
- There is a saucer under the plant pot to catch the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x4)
- His eyes went as big as saucers when he saw the present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x5)
- The film was about a flying saucer landing in a field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x6)
- I dropped a saucer and it broke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x7)
- Put a little water in a saucer for the bees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x8)
- Scrapefoot was very thirsty, and he began to drink out of the big saucer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saucer/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a saucer». Pronounced SAW-ser. From «sauce» (once used for sauces). Note: cats should not really drink cow's milk; water is better for them.

### In the corpora

- [And Tom's saucer of milk?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/4/)
- [Tom never catches Jerry, cartoon cats lap saucers of milk, and they always land on their feet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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