saucer Definition
sau·cer (sô′sər)
noun
- a small, round, shallow dish, esp. one with an indentation designed to hold a cup
- anything round and shallow like a saucer
Etymology: ME sawsere < MFr saussier < sause, sauce
saucer Related Forms
sau′·cer·like′ adjective
saucer Synonyms
saucer Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- milk: She doesn't eat cat meat, but tuna is fine, And a saucer of milk at round about nine.
- water: Adult New Guinea males need to drink form a saucer of water for about one hour every week.
Converse of object
- fly: His editor tells him a flying saucer is coming from Roswell.
- crash: I asked to see pictures of the crashed saucers.
- shape: What was inside could have been saucer shaped, or cigar shaped.
- see: Each half seemed to resemble a saucer seen from the side.
- place: Place a saucer or tile on the top to keep the wet out.
- make: The pots range from a teacup and saucer made by Bernard Leach in 1920 to a large vase made by Alison Britton in 1987.
Adjective modifier
- spinning: The spinning saucers are instrumental craft that are unmanned.
- shallow: It then shrinks on drying out and distorts the paint surface with shallow saucer shaped depressions known as cupping.
- small: In bars you are given your change on a small saucer; leave a couple of small coins.
- little: This is a great little pottery saucer, in white pottery, with a Teal Blue pattern of flowers and birds.
- large: Most of the extremely large saucers have been at high altitudes, some of them many miles above the earth.
Modifies a noun
- sighting: This sounds fast compared to the majority of reported flying saucer sightings.
- scare: Then on June 24 came Kenneth Arnold's famous re port, which set off the saucer scare.
- crash: I didn't see anything of 9/11 in the saucer crash.
- shape: The pond profile which is best for wildlife is a short of shallow saucer shape with gently shelving sides.
- story: Tourists were bringing back more saucer stories than hand tooled, genuine leather purses.
- eye: These were animals the size of calves with saucer eyes which frequented Hethersett.
Noun used with modifier
pot: Is there a water bowl for Frederick in his enclosure ( a plant pot saucer will do )?
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