different between saucer vs sauces

English

Etymology

From Middle English saucer, from Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere; hence modern French saucier m, saucière f).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.s?/
• Rhymes: -??s?(r)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?.s??/, /?s?.s??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?s?.s??/

Noun

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
2. An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer).

3. (obsolete) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

   • Take two saucers , and strike the edge of the one against the bottom of the other , within a pail of water ; and you shall find , that as you put the saucers lower and lower , the sound groweth more flat

4. A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
5. A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

Related terms

• flying saucer
• sauce
• saucer eyes

Translations

Verb

saucer (third-person singular simple present saucers, present participle saucering, simple past and past participle saucered)

1. (transitive) To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.

Anagrams

• SACEUR, Surace, causer, cesura

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sauser, sawcer, sawcere, sawser, sawsere, sawcyr, sawsyr, sawsser

Etymology

From Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere); equivalent to sauce +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sau?s?r(?)/

Noun

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small receptacle or bowl for storing sauce in.
2. A small plate, bowl, or dish; a saucer.

Descendants

• English: saucer
• Scots: saucer

References

• “saucer(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.

English

Noun

sauces

1. plural of sauce

Verb

sauces

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sauce

Anagrams

• causes

French

Noun

sauces f

1. plural of sauce

Anagrams

• causes, causés

Middle English

Noun

sauces

1. plural of sauce

Spanish

Noun

sauces m pl

1. plural of sauce