Dip vs. Sauce — What's the Difference?

To plunge briefly into a liquid, as in order to wet, coat, or saturate.

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.

To color or dye by immersing

A flavorful liquid or semisolid condiment or mixture of ingredients served as a topping or other accompaniment to food.

To immerse (a sheep or other animal) in a disinfectant solution.

Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.

To form (a candle) by repeatedly immersing a wick in melted wax or tallow.

Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.

To galvanize or plate (metal) by immersion.

(Informal) Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.

To scoop up by plunging the hand or a receptacle below the surface, as of a liquid; ladle

(Slang) Alcoholic liquor.

To lower and raise (a flag) in salute.

To season or flavor with sauce.

To lower or drop (something) suddenly

To add piquancy or zest to.

(Slang) To pick the pockets of.

(Informal) To be impertinent or impudent to.

To plunge into water or other liquid and come out quickly.

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

To plunge the hand or a receptacle into liquid or a container, especially so as to take something up or out

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

To withdraw a small amount from a fund

Alcohol, booze.

To drop down or sink out of sight suddenly

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

To drop suddenly before climbing. Used of an aircraft.

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

To slope downward; decline

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

To decline slightly and usually temporarily

Vegetables.

(Geology) To lie at an angle to the horizontal plane, as a rock stratum or vein.

Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

To read here and there at random; browse

To add sauce to; to season.

To investigate a subject superficially; dabble

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

(Slang) To steal by picking pockets.

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

To place a preparation of finely shredded tobacco in one's mouth.

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

A brief plunge or immersion, especially a quick swim.

(slang) To send or hand over.

A liquid into which something is dipped, as for dyeing or disinfecting.

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.

A savory creamy mixture into which crackers, raw vegetables, or other foods may be dipped.

Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

An amount taken up by dipping.

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

A container for dipping.

Sauciness; impertinence.

A candle made by repeated dipping in tallow or wax.

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

A downward slope; a decline.

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

A sharp downward course; a drop

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.

(Geology) The downward inclination of a rock stratum or vein in reference to the plane of the horizon.

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

(Linguistics) A part of a phrase or sentence that is unstressed or less strongly stressed relative to surrounding words, as the words I and to in I have to go.

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

The unstressed portion of a metrical foot.

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

Magnetic dip.

Behave saucy or impudently towards

A hollow or depression.

Dress (food) with a relish

(Sports) A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered by bending the elbows until the chin reaches the level of the bars and then is raised by straightening the arms.

Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting;

(Slang) A pickpocket.

(Slang) A foolish or stupid person.

A preparation of finely shredded tobacco, usually placed between the lower lip and gum. Also called snuff.

A lower section of a road or geological feature.

Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.

A dip stick.

A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.

A pickpocket.

A sauce for dipping.

(geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.

(archaic) A dipped candle.

(dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.

(bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.

(turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.

(aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.

(uncountable) The moist form of snuff tobacco.

The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.

Fried bread.

A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.

(informal) A foolish person.

(informal) A diplomat.

(transitive) To lower into a liquid.

(intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

(intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.

(transitive) To lower a light's beam.

(transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

(transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

(transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.

To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.

(transitive) To immerse for baptism.

(transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

(intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

(transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.

(intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.

(transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

(transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.

(intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)

To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.

To leave.

To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.

To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.

To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; - often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.

To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.

To pierce; to penetrate; - followed by in or into.

To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; - followed by in or into.

To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.

To dip snuff.

The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.

Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

A hollow or depression in a surface, especially in the ground.

A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.

A dipped candle.

A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.

In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation, which is dipped out from incisions in the trees; as, virgin dip (the runnings of the first year), yellow dip (the runnings of subsequent years).

A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.

A liquid, in which objects are soaked by dipping; e.g., a parasiticide or insecticide solution into which animals are dipped (see sheep-dip).

A sauce into which foods are dipped to enhance the flavor; e. g., an onion dip made from sour cream and dried onions, into which potato chips are dipped.

A pickpocket.

A depression in an otherwise level surface;

(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon

A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

Tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped

A brief immersion

A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;

A candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow

A brief swim in water

A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms

Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate;

Dip into a liquid while eating;

Go down momentarily;

Stain an object by immersing it in a liquid

Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

Lower briefly;

Appear to move downward;

Slope downwards;

Dip into a liquid;

Of candles; by dipping the wick into hot, liquid wax

Immerse in a disinfectant solution;

Scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface;