Meatloaf vs. Sausage — What's the Difference?

Meatloaf is a dish of ground meat that has been combined with other ingredients and formed into the shape of a loaf, then baked or smoked. The final shape is either hand-formed on a baking tray, or pan-formed by cooking it in a loaf pan.

A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef, or poultry, along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients such as grains or breadcrumbs may be included as fillers or extenders.

A mounded or molded dish, usually baked, of ground beef or a combination of various meats and other ingredients.

An item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.

A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.

Used as an affectionate form of address, especially to a child

A baked loaf of ground meat

Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.

A small cylinder-shaped serving of this meat.

A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.

A sausage-shaped thing.

Penis.

(informal) A term of endearment.

A saucisse.

(engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.

A saucisson. See Saucisson.

Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings

A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon