different between brass vs sauce

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?æs/
• Rhymes: -??s, -æs

Etymology 1

From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), origin uncertain. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *bras? (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small made fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”).

In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.

Noun

brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)

1. (uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
   1. A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten
   2. Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass
2. (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
3. Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
4. (uncountable) The colour of brass.

6. (military, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymically) High-ranking officers.

7. (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.

8. (slang, dated) Money.
9. Inferior composition.

Derived terms

References

• “brass”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “brass, noun.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Translations

Adjective

brass (comparative more brass, superlative most brass)

1. Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
2. Of the colour of brass.
3. (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
   • 1869, Calendar of State Papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles I, 1637-1638, edited by John Bruce, page 147:

     At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.

   • 1996 May 24, 2:00 am, Sherman Simpson, Want license key for AGENT FOR WINDOWS95, alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent:

     Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.

   • 2000 Aug 18, 2:00 am, David Ryan, strangest bid retraction /illegal lottery NOT, rec.collecting.coins:

     After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.

   • 2000 Aug 19, 3:00 am, n4mwd, for RMB, alt.support.anxiety-panic:

     Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, [...]

4. (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
   • 1888, Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage: written by themselves, volume 1, page 90:

     Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.

   • 1900, The Training of Seamen, published in The Saturday Review, 3 November 1900, volume 90, number 2349, page 556:

     I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]

   • 1908, The Smith Family, published in Punch, March 4 1908, bound in Punch vol. CXXXIV, page 168:

     Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.

   • 1929, Philippine Magazine, volume 6, page 27

     The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.

5. Of inferior composition.

Translations

Verb

brass (third-person singular simple present brasses, present participle brassing, simple past and past participle brassed)

1. (transitive) To coat with brass.

Derived terms

• brass up

Translations

Related terms

• braze
• brazen
• brazier

Etymology 2

By ellipsis from "brass nail," in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen").

Noun

brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)

1. (countable, slang) A brass nail; a prostitute.
   • 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury 2011, p. 2:

     Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.

Adjective

brass

1. (slang) Brass monkey; cold.

See also

• althorn
• chalcography
• cornet
• euphonium
• flugelhorn
• French horn
• mellophone
• Muntz metal
• saxhorn
• sousaphone
• trombone
• trumpet
• tuba
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Brass”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “brass”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pras?/
• Rhymes: -as?

Noun

brass n (genitive singular brass, no plural)

1. (music, slang) brass

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• sawce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sauce, from Old French sauce, sause, sausse, salse, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of sali? (“I salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?s/, /s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s, -??s (depending on dialect)
• Homophone: source (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)

1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

   apple sauce; mint sauce

2. (Britain, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

   [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

   Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

4. (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
5. (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
6. (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
7. (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
8. (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
9. (obsolete, Britain, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
   • 1705, Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia

     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.

   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. VIII:

     The first night of our expedition, we boiled our meat; and I asked the landlady for a little sauce, she told me to go to the garden and take as much cabbage as I pleased, and that, boiled with the meat, was all we could eat.

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Synonyms

• sowl

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

1. To add sauce to; to season.
2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

   • Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.

4. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

Derived terms

• sauce up

Translations

See also

Category:en:Sauces

References

Anagrams

• 'cause, cause

French

Etymology

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, nominal use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), perfect participle of sali? (“I salt”), from s?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sos/

Noun

sauce f (plural sauces)

1. sauce

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “sauce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cause, causé, sceau

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa.

Alternative forms

• sause, sawce, sawse, salse, saus, saws

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sau?s(?)/

Noun

sauce (plural sauces)

1. A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment.
2. A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving.
3. A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.

Related terms

• saucen
• saucer
• saucerie
• sausfleme
• vert sauce

Descendants

• English: sauce
• Scots: sauce

References

• “sauce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.

Etymology 2

Verb

sauce

1. Alternative form of saucen

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sali?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sau?t?s?/

Noun

sauce f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauce, nominative plural sauces)

1. sauce (condiment)

Descendants

• English: sauce
• French: sauce

Etymology 2

From Latin salix, salicem.

Noun

sauce m (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauces, nominative plural sauce)

1. willow (tree)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix (“willow”) (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), from Proto-Indo-European *sl?H-ik- (“willow”). Doublet of sarga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?sau?e/, [?sau?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sause/, [?sau?.se]

Noun

sauce m (plural sauces)

1. willow

   Synonym: salce

Usage notes

• Sauce is a false friend, and does not mean the same as the English word sauce. The Spanish word for sauce is salsa.

Derived terms

• sauzal m
• Saucedo
• sauce llorón

Related terms

• salicílico

Anagrams

• cause, causé, sueca