Sauce vs. Salsa — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sauce and Salsa
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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.
Salsa
A type of Latin American dance music incorporating elements of jazz and rock.
Sauce
A flavorful liquid or semisolid condiment or mixture of ingredients served as a topping or other accompaniment to food.
Salsa
(especially in Latin American cooking) a spicy tomato sauce
A flour tortilla with salsa and shredded cheese
Sauce
Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
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Salsa
A spicy sauce of chopped, usually uncooked vegetables or fruit, especially tomatoes, onions, and chili peppers, used as a condiment.
Sauce
Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
Salsa
A genre of Latin American music characterized by Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Cuban big-band arrangements, and elements of jazz and rock.
Sauce
(Informal) Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.
Salsa
A dance for couples performed to this music.
Sauce
(Slang) Alcoholic liquor.
Salsa
(countable) A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers.
Sauce
To season or flavor with sauce.
Salsa
A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.
Sauce
To add piquancy or zest to.
Salsa
Any of several dances performed to salsa music.
Sauce
(Informal) To be impertinent or impudent to.
Salsa
(intransitive) To dance the salsa.
They salsaed late until the night.
Sauce
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
Apple sauce; mint sauce
Salsa
Spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods
Sauce
Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
Sauce
Alcohol, booze.
Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
Sauce
(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
Sauce
(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Sauce
(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
Sauce
Vegetables.
Sauce
Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
Sauce
To add sauce to; to season.
Sauce
To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
Sauce
To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Sauce
(colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
Sauce
(slang) To send or hand over.
Sauce
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.
Sauce
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.
Sauce
Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.
Sauce
Sauciness; impertinence.
Sauce
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Sauce
To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
Sauce
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!
Sauce
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.
Sauce
To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
I'll sauce her with bitter words.
Sauce
Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
Sauce
Behave saucy or impudently towards
Sauce
Dress (food) with a relish
Sauce
Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting;
Sauce the roast
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