Condiment vs. Sauce

Condimentnoun

Something used to enhance the flavor of food; for example, salt or pepper.

Saucenoun

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

‘apple sauce; mint sauce’;

Condimentverb

(transitive) To season with condiments.

Saucenoun

Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

‘[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce’;

Condimentverb

(transitive) To pickle.

Saucenoun

Alcohol, booze.

‘Maybe you should lay off the sauce.’;

Condimentnoun

Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.

‘As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment.’;

Saucenoun

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

Condimentnoun

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

‘mustard and ketchup are condiments’;

Saucenoun

(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

Condiment

A condiment is a spice, sauce, or preparation that is added to food, after cooking, to impart a specific flavor, to enhance the flavor, or to complement the dish. A table condiment or table sauce is more specifically a condiment that is served separately from the food and is added to taste by the diner.

Saucenoun

(internet slang) lang=en, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.

Saucenoun

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

Saucenoun

Vegetables.

Saucenoun

Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

Sauceverb

To add sauce to; to season.

Sauceverb

To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.

Sauceverb

To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

Sauceverb

(colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

Saucenoun

A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.

‘High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.’;

Saucenoun

Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

‘Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.’;

Saucenoun

Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.

Saucenoun

Sauciness; impertinence.

Saucenoun

A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

Sauceverb

To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.

Sauceverb

To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.

‘Earth, yield me roots;Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palateWith thy most operant poison!’;

Sauceverb

To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

‘Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.’; ‘Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings.’;

Sauceverb

To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

‘I'll sauce her with bitter words.’;

Saucenoun

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

Sauceverb

behave saucy or impudently towards

Sauceverb

dress (food) with a relish

Sauceverb

add zest or flavor to, make more interesting;

‘sauce the roast’;

Sauce

In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish.