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Meaning of sauce in English

sauce
noun
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/sɔːs/ us
/sɑːs/

sauce noun (THICK LIQUID)

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A2 [ C or U ]
a thick liquid eaten with food to add flavour:
a savoury/sweet sauce
tomato sauce
[ U ] slang
alcohol:
on the sauce He's been on the sauce (= drinking too much alcohol) again.
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sauce noun (RUDENESS)

[ U ] old-fashioned
remarks that are rude or show no respect:
That's enough of your sauce, my girl!
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Rude and cheeky
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sauce noun (SPORT)

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(also sauce pass, saucer pass)
in ice hockey, a pass (= attempt to move the puck from one player to another) that sends the puck off the surface of the ice and into the air:
Gagne put out his stick in an attempt to intercept the sauce from Dean.
He flipped a sauce pass out to Rice, who corralled it and shot it into the net.
He was a skilled player who won faceoffs and gave nice saucer passes.
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Idiom

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
(Definition of sauce from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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sauce
noun [ C/U ]
us
/sɔs/
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a thick liquid prepared and served with food to add flavor:
[ U ] barbecue/tomato sauce
(Definition of sauce from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of sauce

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Here, the user boils water, prepares a sauce, boils water again and finally cooks pasta.
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I ate the sushi plain, without soy sauce or wasabi (horseradish).
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Also, it is possible special foods or sauces were grown and prepared in the household.
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These dealt mainly in rice, soybean paste and soy sauce, but most of them were unsuccessful and short-lived.
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It is possible they would have been prepared into a kind of "mole" sauce.
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These rolls were perhaps used as a supplementary spoon to sop up sauces and gravies.
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Saying 'blood' around the red sauce that is made from pandanus cobs, for example, would cause people eating this foodstuff to vomit.
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These sauces were prepared under poor hygienic conditions of handling and selling.
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Stratified analysis by ethnicity confirmed that ethnicity remained a confounder for pasta and pasta sauce consumption.
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for expression refers to a ship or boat sailing the gander.
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I ate it with tomato sauce, along with a lettuce salad.
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Similarly, fish in parsley sauce with mashed potato and sweetcorn may be hard to make out if served on a white plate placed on a white tablecloth.
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He takes the time to score his goal and then returns to the kitchen, drains the pasta, adds some sauce, and serves it in the restaurant.
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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I am also worried that in some places the cafeteria system encourages pupils to select chips and perhaps to wash them down with currant sauce.
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Translations of sauce

in Chinese (Traditional)
濃液體, 調味汁，醬, 酒…
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浓液体, 沙司，调味汁，酱, 酒…
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salsa, alcohol, insolencia…
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molho, molho [masculine]…
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sos, salça, terbiye…
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sauce [feminine], sauce…
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சுவை சேர்க்க உணவுடன் சேர்த்து சாப்பிடும் ஒரு தடிமனான திரவம்…
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સોસ, ચટણી, ખોરાકમાં સ્વાદ વધારવા ઉમેરાતો એક ઘટ્ટ મસાલેદાર રસ…
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sovs, -sovs…
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sås…
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die Soße…
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saus [masculine], saus…
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రుచి, సువాసన కోసం తిండితో కలిపి తినే చిక్కని ద్రవం, సాస్…
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সস…
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omáčka…
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saus…
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ซอส…
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nước chấm, nước xốt…
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