SAUCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saucer mean? 

• SAUCER (noun)
  The noun SAUCER has 4 senses:

1. something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

2. a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table

3. directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

4. a disk used in throwing competitions

  Familiarity information: SAUCER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAUCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

disc; disk; saucer

Context example:

the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky

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

round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)

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

intervertebral disc; intervertebral disk (a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two))

dot; point (a very small circular shape)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

flatware (tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dish; dish aerial; dish antenna; saucer

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

directional antenna (an antenna that transmits or receives signals only in a narrow angle)

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

scanner (a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area)

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

microwave radar; radar; radio detection and ranging; radiolocation (measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects)

radio reflector; radio telescope (astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A disk used in throwing competitions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

discus; saucer

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

disc; disk (a flat circular plate)

sports equipment (equipment needed to participate in a particular sport)

 Context examples 

"There's salt here," said Laurie, as he handed Jo a saucer of berries.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr. Joseph Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out of a saucer.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He took up a small saucer of milk which stood on the top of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why my hand shook, and why I involuntarily spilt half the contents of my cup into my saucer, I did not choose to consider.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The tray was kept from tumbling down, by a bible; and the tray, if it had tumbled down, would have smashed a quantity of cups and saucers and a teapot that were grouped around the book.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At one table, there were traces of chemical work, various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glass saucers, as though for an experiment in which the unhappy man had been prevented.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She sat in a blaze of oppressive heat, in a cloud of moving dust, and her eyes could only wander from the walls, marked by her father's head, to the table cut and notched by her brothers, where stood the tea-board never thoroughly cleaned, the cups and saucers wiped in streaks, the milk a mixture of motes floating in thin blue, and the bread and butter growing every minute more greasy than even Rebecca's hands had first produced it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The sight of the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next bustle brought in Mr. Campbell, the surgeon of the Thrush, a very well-behaved young man, who came to call for his friend, and for whom there was with some contrivance found a chair, and with some hasty washing of the young tea-maker's, a cup and saucer; and after another quarter of an hour of earnest talk between the gentlemen, noise rising upon noise, and bustle upon bustle, men and boys at last all in motion together, the moment came for setting off; everything was ready, William took leave, and all of them were gone; for the three boys, in spite of their mother's entreaty, determined to see their brother and Mr. Campbell to the sally-port; and Mr. Price walked off at the same time to carry back his neighbour's newspaper.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)