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Definition: Saucer |
SaucerNoun1. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate. 2. A small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table. 3. Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation. 4. A disk used in throwing competitions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saucer" was first used: 1343. (references) |
Etymology: Saucer \Sau"cer\, noun. [French expression sauci[`e]re, from sauce. See Sauce.]. (references) |
Synonyms: SaucerSynonyms: disc (n), discus (n), dish (n), dish aerial (n), dish antenna (n), disk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer, pan, crucible; glassware, tableware; vitrics. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Saucer |
| English words defined with "saucer": Padella, Pink saucer ♦ Sand collar, Sand saucer ♦ Tea-saucer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "saucer": FLY ♦ Saucer Eyes, Saucer Oath, spaceship operator. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "saucer": Acetabulum. (references) |
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Screenplays | It was a saucer. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.) So few people can boast that they lost a man from Mars and a flying saucer all in the same day (The Thing From Another World; writing credit: George A. Romero; John A. Russo) I can understand how Tennessee feels, he's just in off a flying saucer. (The Love Bug; writing credit: Gordon Buford; Don DaGradi) Oh, nothing so domestic as a flying saucer, officer (The Giant Claw; writing credit: Paul Gangelin; Samuel Newman) | |
Lyrics | The enforcer, music flows like a flying saucer (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Bamboo Saucer (1968) Flying Cup and Saucer (1966) Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) Supersonic Saucer (1956) The Flying Saucer (1950) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (3) color slides of a cup of coffee and saucer. (2) regular, black coffee, (1) coffee with cream. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Looming like a giant flying saucer in our outer solar system, Saturn puts on a show as the ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Say, lady, don't forgit to give'm a saucer of milk when you git 'im home. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior of Cup & Saucer Tea Room, Browns Mills in the Pines, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Flying saucer over East Main Street at Waterbury, 18 June 1954. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migrant woman drinking coffee from saucer while camped near Prague, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Break; breaking; shattered; dishes; dish; china; teacup; plate; saucer; bowl. |
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Bill Hicks | I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man. Maybe they're like hillbilly aliens. Some intergalactic Joad family or something. "Don't you all want to land in New York, or L.A.?" "Nah, we just had a long trip, we gonna kick back and whittle some." Oh, my God, they're idiots. "We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull!" My God, we're being invaded by rednecks. My biggest fear. Last thing I want to see is a flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, you know? Wouldn't that be depressing? Some bumper sticker on it - "They'll get my ray gun when they pry my cold, dead, eighteen-fingered hand off of it." |
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So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | He wondered where Ford Prefect was. By an extraordinary coincidence, the following day there were two reports in the paper, one concerning the most astonishing incidents with a flying saucer, and the other about a series of unseemly riots in pubs |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Saucer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saucer" is used about 341 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 341 | 15,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "saucer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Saucer | Last name | 200 | 31,196 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "saucer": cup and saucer ♦ flowerpot saucer ♦ flying saucer ♦ pink saucer ♦ sand saucer ♦ saucer eyes ♦ saucer magnolia. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "saucer": saucer-eyed, saucer-like, saucer-shaped, saucer-sized, saucer-wide. | |
Ending with "saucer": cup-and-saucer, flying-saucer, Tea-saucer. | |
Containing "saucer": cup-and-saucer vine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "saucer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pjatëz, pjatë filxhani. (various references) | |
Arabic | صحن الفنجان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чинийка, глинена чинийка, плитка котловина. (various references) | |
Chamorro | platitu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 茶碟, 小碟子 . (various references) | |
Czech | podšálek. (various references) | |
Danish | underkop. (various references) | |
Dutch | schoteltje, schotel (course, dish, plate, platter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | subtaso, telereto (small plate). (various references) | |
Farsi | نعلبکی , زیرگلدانی (Mat), درنعلبکی ریختن , بشقاب کوچک . (various references) | |
Finnish | teevati, lautaspohja (bowl, rounding bottom), aluslautanen. (various references) | |
French | soucoupe (diving saucer). (various references) | |
German | Untertasse (bowl, rounding bottom), Untersatz (coaster, mat, minor premise, Mount, mounting). (various references) | |
Greek | πιατάκι (small plate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תחתית (base, bottom, subway), צלחית, צלחת (dish, plate, platter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csészealj. (various references) | |
Italian | piattino (side plate), sottocoppa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 受け皿 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うけざら. (various references) | |
Korean | 시 (Dish). (various references) | |
Manx | skaal. (various references) | |
Maori | hoeha. (various references) | |
Norwegian | koppeskål. (various references) | |
Papiamen | skotter. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aucersay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pires. (various references) | |
Romanian | farfurioarã (pan). (various references) | |
Russian | блюдце. (various references) | |
Scottish | s sar. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zdelica, tanjirić, tacna. (various references) | |
Spanish | platillo (basin, bowl, cymbal, dish, pan, pot, scale, scoop, tray). (various references) | |
Sranan | skotriki. (various references) | |
Swedish | tefat, kaffefat. (various references) | |
Thai | จานรอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | fincan tabağı, çay bardağı tabağı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | соусник (sauceboat), блюдце, піддонник. (various references) | |
Welsh | soser. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pateris, salsus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | saucier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "saucer": saucerlike, saucers. (additional references) | |
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"Saucer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asukari, Sacer, saceur, sacure, saice, saicer, saisir, saower, Saquier, Sarcar, Saruca, sauber, sauc, saucen, saucey, saucve, sauder, sauer, sauke, saunce, sause, sauver, Sauveur, Seufert, Shucard, socer, souser, suaver, succer, Szuca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "saucer" (pronounced sô"ser) |
| 3 | -ô" s er | crosser, Glosser, mosser. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: causer, cesura. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: acres, arcus, aures, cares, carse, cause, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, escar, races, sauce, scare, scaur, serac, sucre, urase, ureas, ursae. | |
-2 letters: aces, acre, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case, crus, cues, cure, curs, ears, ecru, ecus, eras, race, rase, recs, rues, ruse, scar, sear, sera, suer, sura, sure, urea, ursa, user. | |
-3 letters: ace. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: accrues, accuser, acerous, apercus, arcuses, caesura, carouse, causers, cesurae, cesuras, crusade, curares, curates, recusal, rubaces, saucers, saucier, scauper, secular, subrace, sucrase, surface. | |
+2 letters: accursed, accusers, acquires, adducers, araceous, arbuscle, auricles, caesurae, caesural, caesuras, caesuric, captures, caroused, carousel, carouser, carouses, caulkers, causerie, centaurs, chasseur, chaufers, claquers, courages, crusaded, crusader, crusades, cudbears, curacies, durances, ecraseur, eucharis, factures, farceurs, furcates, furnaces, hachures, lacquers, lucarnes, nacreous, outraces, purchase, racemous, racquets, raunches, reaccuse, recusals, recusant, scaupers, secateur, seculars, specular, subraces, sucrases, supercar, surcease, surfaced, surfacer, surfaces, suricate, traduces, unbraces, uncrates. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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