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Sauce vs. Saucer — What's the Difference?

Sauce vs. Saucer — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sauce and Saucer

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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.

Saucer

A saucer is a type of small dishware. While in the Middle Ages a saucer was used for serving condiments and sauces, currently the term is used to denote a small plate or shallow bowl that supports a cup – usually one used to serve coffee or tea.

Sauce

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

Saucer

A small shallow dish having a slight circular depression in the center for holding a cup.

Sauce

Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
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Saucer

An object similar in shape to a saucer.

Sauce

Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.

Saucer

A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.

Sauce

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

Saucer

An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
The saucer-shaped object could have been a UFO.

Sauce

(Slang) Alcoholic liquor.

Saucer

A circular sled without runners.

Sauce

To season or flavor with sauce.

Saucer

(obsolete) A small pan or other vessel-like food container in which sauce was set on a table.

Sauce

To add piquancy or zest to.

Saucer

A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.

Sauce

(Informal) To be impertinent or impudent to.

Saucer

A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

Sauce

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
Apple sauce; mint sauce

Saucer

(transitive) To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.

Sauce

Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

Saucer

(intransitive) Of the eyes: to become large and round.

Sauce

Alcohol, booze.
Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

Saucer

A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

Sauce

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

Saucer

A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.

Sauce

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

Saucer

Something resembling a saucer in shape.

Sauce

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

Saucer

Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate

Sauce

Vegetables.

Saucer

A small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table

Sauce

Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

Saucer

Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

Sauce

To add sauce to; to season.

Saucer

A disk used in throwing competitions

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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