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Potato vs Sauce - What's the difference?

potato | sauce |

As nouns the difference between potato and sauce

is that potato is a plant tuber, solanum tuberosum , eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the americas and europe while sauce is .

potato

English

(wikipedia potato)

Noun

(potatoes)
  • A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum , eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe
  • (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking

    • Synonyms

    * (plant) spud (slang)

    Derived terms

    * air potato, air-potato * almond potato * Amandine potato * Andean potato latent virus * Andean potato mottle virus * Anna potatoes * apple potato bread * baby potato * baked potato * baking potato * bastard potato * Bengal potatoes * Bintje potato * black potato * blue potato * boiling potato * Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar * Brazilian potato tree * Burbank potato, Burbank Russet potato * Canada potato * Canarian wrinkly potatoes * Caribe potato * Carolina potato * chat potatoes * chef's potato * Chilean potato-tree, Chilean potato vine * Chilian potato * Chinese potato * clean potato * cold-potato routing * coleus potato * Colorado potato beetle * couch potato * Cree potato * Cuban sweet potato * Delmonico potato * duchess potatoes, duchesse potatoes * duck potato * false potato beetle * fauxtato * fingerling potato * finger potato * frafra potato * French-fried potatoes * giant potato creeper * glasshouse and potato aphid * Greenfield potatoes * Hausa potato * hog potato * hog's potato * home-fried potatoes * hot potato * Idaho potato * Indian potato * Irish potato * Irish potato bread * * jacket potato * Japanese potato * Jersey Royal potatoes * Jerusalem potato * little potato * Livingstone potato * long white potato * low-starch potato * Lyonnaise potatoes * Madagascar potato * mashed potato, mashed potatoes * meat and potatoes * meat and potato pie * Mexican potato * mouse potato * * native potato * new potato * O'Brien potatoes * oca potato * * pineapple potato * potater * potato aphid * potato apple, potato-apple * potato aucuba mosaic virus * potato badger * potato-ball * potato bean, potato-bean * potato beetle, potato-beetle * potato black ringspot virus * potato blight * potato blood agar * potato-bogle * potato-box * potato bread * potato bug, potato-bug * potato cake, potato-cake * potato cannon * potato chips * potato clay * potato creeper * potato crisps * potato curl * potato cyst * potato cyst nematode * potato deforming mosaic virus * potato dextrose agar * potato dextrose broth * potato disease * potato dumpling * potato-eater * potato-eel * potatoes and point * potatoey * potato-eye * potato failure * potato family * potato famine * potato farls * potato fly * potato fern * potato finger * potato flake * potato flour * potato-fly * potato fork * potato fungus * potato grant * potato gun * potato-headed * potato hook * potato-jaw * potato kugel * potato late blight * potato latent virus * potato latke * potato leafhopper * potato leaf roll virus, potato leafroll virus * potato lectin * potatoless * potato-loaf * potato masher, potato-masher * potato mildew * potato-mill * potato mop-top virus * potato mold, potato mould * potato mosaic * potato moth * potato-mouth * potato-mouthed * potato murrain * potato nose, potato-nose * potato nuggets * potato oat * potato of Canada * potato oil * potato onion * potato pancake * potato paradox * potato patch * potato peel * potato peeler, potato-peeler * potato peelings * potato pen * potato pie * potato pit * potato plant * potato pretender * potato psyllid * potato pudding * potato puff * potato race * potato ricer * potato ring, potato-ring * potato-root * potato root nematode * potato rot * potato rot nematode * potato rugose mosaic * potato salad * potato scab * potato scab bacteria * potato scone * potato-scoop * potato set * potato-shop * potato-sick * potato spindle tuber viroid * potato spirit, potato-spirit * potato split-worm * potato-spraying * potato-stalk weevil * potato starch * potato stem mottle * potato stick * potato straw * potato sugar * potato trap, potato-trap * potato tree, potato-tree * potato tuber moth * potato tuber nematode * potato tuberworm * potato tumor, potato tumour * potato vine * potato virus A * potato virus M * potato virus S * potato virus T * potato virus U * potato virus V * potato virus X * potato virus Y * * potato wart * potato wart fungus * potato weevil * potato whisky * potato-woman * potato worm * potato yam * potato yellow dwarf * potato yellow dwarf virus, potato yellow-dwarf virus * potato yellowing virus * potato yellow mosaic virus * potato yellow vein virus * * prairie potato * Price's potato-bean * prickly potato * purple Peruvian potato * purple potato * red-skinned potato * red potato * red round potato * Russet Burbank potato * russet potato * salt potatoes * scalloped potatoes * sea potato * seaside potato * seed potato * Spanish potato * small potato, small potatoes, small potatoes and a few in a hill, small potatoes and a few in the hill * scalloped potatoes * shoestring potatoes * smashed potatoes * starchy potato * Sudan potato * swamp potato * sweet potato * tater * Telinga potato * telingo potato * ten-lined potato beetle * Uruguay potato * Uruguay potato vine * Virginia potato, Virginian potato * Vivaldi potato * waxy potato * white potato * white potato vine * white round potato * wild potato * wild potato mosaic virus * wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine * wild sweet potato * yellow dwarf of potato * Yellow Finn potato * Yellow Finnish potato * yellow potato * Yukon Gold potato * Zulu potato, Zulu round potato

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    sauce

    English

    Noun

  • A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
    • apple sauce'''; mint '''sauce
  • (UK, Australia) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
    • [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
  • Alcohol, booze.
  • *
    • Maybe you should lay off the sauce .
  • (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 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."}}
  • (obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
  • * Beverly
    • 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 sauce

    Verb

    (sauc)
  • 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
    • Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
  • To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
  • (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll sauce her with bitter words.

    Suffix

    (head)
  • (slang) An intensifying suffix.

    • Derived terms

    * awesome sauce, awesomesauce, awesome-sauce * beatsauce * boss sauce * crazysauce * dopesauce * dumb sauce * gay sauce * fail sauce * lamesauce * scary sauce * sweet sauce * weaksauce * win sauce

    See also

    * bechamel * catsup * coulis * gravy * ketchup * salsa * soy

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