Ketchup vs Vegetable - What's the difference?
ketchup | vegetable |
(uncountable) A tomato-vinegar based sauce.
# and garlic.
(countable) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes), or a specific brand or kind of such sauce – see usage notes below.
To cover with ketchup.
* 1867 , John Maddison Morton, Aunt Charlotte's maid: a farce in one act
* 1973 , Horizon (page 15)
* 2009 , David Silverman, Twinkle (page 4)
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Any plant.
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.
The edible part of such a plant.
(figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.
Of or relating to plants.
Of or relating to vegetables.
As nouns the difference between ketchup and vegetable
is that ketchup is while vegetable is any plant.As an adjective vegetable is
of or relating to plants.ketchup
English
(wikipedia ketchup)Alternative forms
* catsup * catchup (obsolete)Noun
- fish ketchup'''; fruit '''ketchup'''; mushroom '''ketchup
Usage notes
The term is now used almost exclusively to refer to tomato ketchup. However, at one time it was a more general term for sauce, and it is still occasionally used in this way, as with grape ketchup and mushroom ketchup. The spelling ketchup' became significantly preferred in the United States due to the popularity of (Heinz Tomato Ketchup), which used this spelling since shortly after its introduction in 1876 (after earlier using catsup) to distinguish itself from competitors. Other major brands, such as Hunt, subsequently followed, with Del Monte only switching to '''ketchup in 1988.“Is There a Difference Between Ketchup and Catsup?”, ''Slate, Aisha Harris, April 22, 2013
Verb
(ketchupp)- It strikes me she's "ketchupped " the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
- "Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."
- Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.