tomato sauce
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- noun
- /təˈmeɪtoʊ sɔs/
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salsa de tomate
- When six o'clock came, the spaghetti and the tomato sauce were done, but Frank Henry had not yet arrived.
Now Ned knows the tomato sauce and the sugar go together.
- Now Ned knows the tomato sauce and the sugar go together.
- You can grind it down and make a tomato sauce.
- Lastly, you would need one jar of tomato sauce.
- Yeah, but his little sister will not touch tomato sauce.
- We're used to the pieces and sausage with hundreds of tomato sauce and big bottles.
- What I do, it's a lot of tomato sauce.
Examples
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You just want to give it a nice little light coating of tomato sauce and then add your mozzarella.
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Piscano dips a piece of bread into a pot of tomato sauce.
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Also, there is no reason why your tomato sauce should turn brown.
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Do you want to help me find the tomato sauce?
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So with tomato sauce, put like a bunch of cheese on top.
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Sometimes I sure miss pizza with tomato sauce.
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Now Ned knows the tomato sauce and the sugar go together.
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...the classic tomato sauce from Toscana.
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Linguini in a tomato sauce.
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I love the classic combination of tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and fresh basil.
Synonyms
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A liquid served with food to add taste
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A sauce usually made from tomatoes and herbs to serve with pasta
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A food put on pasta to add flavor, often made from tomatoes, cream or oil
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Morphology
The meaning 'a sauce made from tomatoes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tomato' (the fruit) with 'sauce' (a liquid or semi-liquid condiment); a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer this compound refers to sauce made of tomatoes. This noun+noun composition is a common, compositional pattern cross-linguistically, so the sense is immediately comprehensible without prior exposure.
Etymology
Tomato sauce comes from the simple picture of cooking red tomatoes until they break down into a smooth sauce. Cooks would mash or simmer tomatoes and pour the red sauce over pasta or meat, so the name is used for 'a sauce made mainly from tomatoes'.