sauce
Because it is a word with a single syllable, sauce is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofsauce
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
Example: "apple sauce; mint sauce"
- Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
Example: "[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce"
- (usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
Example: "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.
- 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.
- The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
Example: "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.
Example: "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).
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