Nerve vs Sauce - What's the difference?
nerve | sauce | Synonyms |
(zoology) A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
(nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
(botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood
Courage, boldness.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
Patience. (rfexample)
Stamina, endurance, fortitude.
* Milton
Audacity, gall.
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(in the plural) Agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotion.
(obsolete) Sinew, tendon.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
To give courage; sometimes with "up".
To give strength
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
(UK, Australia) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
Alcohol, booze.
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(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
(internet slang) used when requesting the source of an image.
(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1967
, first = Barbara
, last = Sleigh
, authorlink = Barbara Sleigh
, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
, publisher=Bloomsbury
, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
, page = 28
, url =
, passage = ‘I’ll have none of your sauce', young Jessamy. Just because you’ve been took up by the family you’ve no call to give yourself airs. You’re only the housekeeper’s niece, and cook-housekeeper at that, and don’t you forgrt it. You know full well I’m parlour maid, Matchett to the gentry, ''Miss'' Matchett to you – you little —!’ Jessamy broke in anxiously. ‘But I didn’t mean it for ' sauce , really I didn’t:’
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1967
, first = Barbara
, last = Sleigh
, authorlink = Barbara Sleigh
, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
, publisher=Bloomsbury
, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
, page = 39
, url =
, passage = ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce ,’ said Sarah.
}}
Vegetables.
* {{quote-book
, year=1833
, author=(John Neal)
, title=The Down-Easters, Volume 1
, passage=I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1882
, author=
, title=Peck's Sunshine
, chapter=Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar
(obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
* Beverly
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.
* Shakespeare
To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
* Shakespeare
(slang) An intensifying suffix.
Nerve is a synonym of sauce.
As a verb nerve
is .As a noun sauce is
.nerve
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nerves can be seen through the skin.''
- ''Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves
- He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her, what a wimp!
- A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.
- He led me on to mightiest deeds, / Above the nerve of mortal arm.
- He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
- Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test.
- Come on; obey: / Thy nerves are in their infancy again, / And have no vigour in them.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
; Audacity, gall : brashness, brazenness, big ballsHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bundle of nerves * get on somebody's nerves/get on one's nerves * nervation * nerveless * nervy * nerve cell * nerve center * nerve ending * nerve fiber * nerve gas * nerve impulse * nerve-racking * nerves of steel * nerve-wracking * nervi-, nervo- * touch a nerve * unnerved * war of nervesVerb
(nerv)- ''May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
- ''The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.
Anagrams
* ----sauce
English
Noun
- apple sauce'''; mint '''sauce
- [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
- Maybe you should lay off the sauce .
citation, passage=and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce , says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."}}
- 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.
- (Forby)
- (Bartlett)
Derived terms
* apple sauce, applesauce, apple-sauce * barbecue sauce * * * brown sauce * fair suck of the sauce bottle * fish sauce * hoisin sauce * hollandaise sauce * hot sauce * hunger is a good sauce * hunger is the best sauce * laurier-sauce * marchand de vin sauce * Marie Rose sauce * mint sauce * mother sauce * oyster sauce * pasta sauce * ranchero sauce * saucepan * saucepot * saucy * soy sauce * special sauce * steak sauce * sweet-and-sour sauce * Tabasco sauce * tartare sauce, tartar sauce * tomato sauce * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander * Worcester sauce * Worcestershire sauceVerb
(sauc)- Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
- Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
- I'll sauce her with bitter words.