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noun

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

    "apple sauce; mint sauce"

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

    "[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce"

  • (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

    "Maybe you should lay off the sauce."

  • Anabolic steroids.
  • A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
  • Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
  • (1800s) Vegetables.
  • Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
Synonyms:sowl

verb

  • To add sauce to; to season.
  • To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
  • To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
  • To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

noun

  • The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

    "The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling."

  • Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

    "The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers."

  • A reporter's informant.
  • Source code.
  • The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Synonyms:wellspring

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