SAUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sauce mean? 

• SAUCE (noun)
  The noun SAUCE has 1 sense:

1. flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

  Familiarity information: SAUCE used as a noun is very rare.

• SAUCE (verb)
  The verb SAUCE has 3 senses:

1. behave saucily or impudently towards

2. dress (food) with a relish

3. add zest or flavor to, make more interesting

  Familiarity information: SAUCE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sauce" is a kind of...):

condiment (a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sauce"):

Hungarian sauce; paprika sauce (veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onion and paprika and cream)

chocolate sauce; chocolate syrup (sauce made with unsweetened chocolate or cocoa and sugar and water)

cocktail sauce; seafood sauce (usually catsup with horseradish and lemon juice)

Colbert; Colbert butter (butter creamed with parsley and tarragon and beef extract)

bechamel; bechamel sauce; white sauce (milk thickened with a butter and flour roux)

demi-glaze; demiglace (sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherry)

gravy (a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats)

pasta sauce; spaghetti sauce (any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta)

mole (spicy sauce often containing chocolate)

hunter's sauce; sauce chausseur (brown sauce and tomato puree with onions and mushrooms and dry white wine)

mushroom sauce (brown sauce and sauteed mushrooms)

mustard sauce (sauce of prepared mustard thinned with vinegar and vegetable oil with sugar and seasonings)

Nantua; shrimp sauce (white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter)

brown sauce; Chinese brown sauce (a sauce based on soy sauce)

pepper sauce; Poivrade (for venison: brown sauce with sauteed vegetables and trimmings and marinade and plenty of pepper)

Smitane (veloute or brown sauce with sauteed chopped onion and dry white wine and sour cream)

Soubise; white onion sauce (veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onions and whipping cream)

brown onion sauce; Lyonnaise sauce (brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegar)

veloute (white sauce made with stock instead of milk)

allemande; allemande sauce (egg-thickened veloute)

caper sauce (allemande sauce with capers)

poulette (allemande sauce with chopped parsley)

curry sauce (allemande sauce with curry powder and coconut milk instead of stock)

Worcester sauce; Worcestershire; Worcestershire sauce (a savory sauce of vinegar and soy sauce and spices)

snail butter (for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley)

Newburg sauce (lobster butter and cream and egg yolks seasoned with onions and sherry or Madeira)

ravigote; ravigotte (veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers)

anchovy sauce (made of white sauce and mashed anchovies)

hot sauce (a pungent peppery sauce)

hard sauce (butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddings)

horseradish sauce; sauce Albert (creamy white sauce with horseradish and mustard)

tartar sauce; tartare sauce (mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish)

wine sauce (white or veloute sauce with wine and stock variously seasoned with onions and herbs; for fish or meat)

marchand de vin; mushroom wine sauce (brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or Madeira)

bread sauce (creamy white sauce made with bread instead of flour and seasoned with cloves and onion)

plum sauce (for Chinese dishes: plum preserves and chutney)

peach sauce (for Chinese dishes: peach preserves and chutney)

apricot sauce (for Chinese dishes: apricot preserves and chutney)

pesto (a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil)

remoulade sauce (a mayonnaise sauce flavored with herbs and mustard and capers; served with e.g. salad and cold meat)

dressing; salad dressing (savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type)

aioli; aioli sauce; garlic sauce (garlic mayonnaise)

barbecue sauce (spicy sweet and sour sauce usually based on catsup or chili sauce)

hollandaise (eggs and butter with lemon juice)

bearnaise (a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice)

Bercy; Bercy butter (butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley)

bordelaise (brown sauce with beef marrow and red wine)

bourguignon; bourguignon sauce; Burgundy sauce (reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter)

brown sauce; sauce Espagnole (bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc.)

Espagnole; sauce Espagnole (brown sauce with tomatoes and a caramelized mixture of minced carrots and onions and celery seasoned with Madeira)

Holonyms ("sauce" is a part of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Derivation:

sauce (add zest or flavor to, make more interesting)

sauce (dress (food) with a relish)

• SAUCE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Behave saucily or impudently towards

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "sauce" is one way to...):

act; behave; do (behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dress (food) with a relish

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "sauce" is one way to...):

flavor; flavour; season (lend flavor to)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sauce (flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

sauce the roast

Hypernyms (to "sauce" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sauce (flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food)

 Context examples 

“Well, serve it hot,” said my uncle, coldly, “and see that the sauces are a little better than when last I dined at Carlton House.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One more word of your sauce, and I'll call you down and fight you.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Specifically, we looked at the degree to which rejectees imposed an unpleasant taste test of hot sauce on their rejectors."

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

On the last Sunday, they invited me to dinner; and we had a loin of pork and apple sauce, and a pudding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The land literally flowed with milk and honey on such occasions, for the lads were not required to sit at table, but allowed to partake of refreshment as they liked—freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Whereupon I enumerated as many sorts as came into my head, with the various methods of dressing them, which could not be done without sending vessels by sea to every part of the world, as well for liquors to drink as for sauces and innumerable other conveniences.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It showed that those offered an apology when rejected from a set of group tasks, which included a taste test of hot sauce, exacted revenge by allocating more sauce to the person who had rejected them.

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)