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Sauce vs Shoe - What's the difference?

sauce | shoe |

As nouns the difference between sauce and shoe

is that sauce is while shoe is a protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.

As a verb shoe is

to put shoes on one's feet.

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

    Anagrams

    * English 4chan slang ----

    shoe

    English

    (wikipedia shoe)

    Noun

    (en-noun) (shoon is archaic or regional)
  • A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
  • Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
  • A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
  • Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
  • A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
  • Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe .
  • Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes , or they will wear out unevenly.
  • # A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
  • # A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
  • # The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
  • # (architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
  • # A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
  • # An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
  • # An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
  • # An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
  • # (engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
  • # Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
  • Usage notes

    The plural shoon is archaic and no longer in common use.

    Hyponyms

    * moccasin * pump * sandal * slipper * sneaker * stiletto * flip flop * See also

    Derived terms

    {{der3, if the shoe fits , the shoe is on the other foot , shoebeam, shoegear , shoe brush, shoebrush , shoegazing , shoehorn , shoemaker , shoe polish , shoeshine , stand in someone's shoes}}

    See also

    * boot * footwear * slipper

    Verb

  • To put shoes on one's feet.
  • * …men and women clothed and shod for the ascent…'' — , ''The Gospel Delivered in Arès , 26:6, 1995
  • To put horseshoes on a horse.
  • * 1874 — (Thomas Hardy), , chapter XXXII
  • "Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."
  • To equip an object with a protection against wear.
  • The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.