ketchup

/'ketʃəp/

Thân thiện

A child squeezes ketchup onto a plate of french fries.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A thick, smooth, cold sauce made primarily from tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, and spices: Ketchup is a common condiment used to add flavor to foods like french fries, burgers, and eggs.

Usage

Ketchup is a non-count (mass) noun. It is typically served in a bottle or a small container. You do not usually say "a ketchup" or "ketchups." Instead, you refer to an amount: some ketchup, a bottle of ketchup, a packet of ketchup.

Examples

• Noun:
  • Would you like ketchup with your fries?
  • He put too much ketchup on his hot dog.
  • This restaurant makes its own homemade ketchup.

Advanced Usage

• "Ketchup" as a base for other sauces: In some recipes, ketchup is used as a base ingredient for other sauces, like barbecue sauce or cocktail sauce.
  • The recipe for the meatloaf glaze calls for ketchup, brown sugar, and mustard.

Variants and Related Words

• Catsup (noun): An alternative, less common spelling for "ketchup." It means the same thing.
  • The label on the old bottle said "catsup."
• Tomato sauce: This is a broader term. In some countries like the UK, "tomato sauce" can be a synonym for ketchup. However, "tomato sauce" can also refer to a cooked sauce used in pasta dishes, which is different from ketchup.

Synonyms

• Tomato ketchup: The full name, often used to distinguish it from other types of sauce.
• Tomato sauce (in some dialects/regions).

Related Phrases

• "Everything but the ketchup": A humorous phrase meaning you have all the necessary components except for one final, often small, thing.
  • I've built the entire model plane. It's everything but the ketchup—I just need to add the decals.
• "As American as apple pie and ketchup": A variation on the idiom "as American as apple pie," highlighting ketchup as a quintessentially American condiment.

Học thuật

Noun

1. thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes

Từ đồng nghĩa

• catsup
• cetchup
• tomato ketchup