essential vs gravy

essential

adj
  • Necessary. 

  • Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. 

  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence. 

  • Really existing; existent. 

  • Very important; of high importance. 

  • Having the nature of essence; not physical. 

  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. 

  • Idiopathic. 

noun
  • A necessary ingredient. 

  • A fundamental ingredient. 

gravy

noun
  • Unearned gain. 

  • Sauce used for pasta. 

  • A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy. 

  • Extra benefit. 

  • Curry sauce. 

  • A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce. 

verb
  • To make gravy. 

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