sausage vs meat

sausage and meat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sausage	Yes	No	No	No
meat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, meat is a hypernym of sausage; that is, meat is a word with a broader meaning than sausage:

sausage: highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
meat: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food

sausage (noun)	meat (noun)
a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon	the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings	the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
	the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone