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# sauce

noun (a sauce, sauces; sauce)

«sauce» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A sauce is a thick liquid served with food to add flavour, such as tomato sauce, gravy or chocolate sauce. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#m1)
2. In British slang, «sauce» also means cheeky talk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sauce» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sauce/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sauce» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sauce.html) on Mova free.