sugar
IPA: ʃˈʊgɝ
noun
- (uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- (countable) A specific variety of sugar.
- (countable, chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- (countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
- (countable) A term of endearment.
- (uncountable, slang) Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
- (chiefly southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
- (uncountable, informal) Diabetes.
- (dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
- Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (US, slang, uncountable, dated) Money.
- (programming) Syntactic sugar.
- (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
- (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
- (US, Canada, regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
- (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
- (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
- (transitive) To compliment (a person).
- To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
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Examples of "sugar" in Sentences
- It is sweetened with sugar.
- Add them to the butter and sugar.
- How much is a scintilla of sugar
- They should mix the sugar softly.
- The confection is primarily made of sugar.
- The filling is a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.
- The membrane is permeable to water but not to sugar.
- The sweetness is due to the sugar syrup they are soaked in.
- The sugar is required in the coffee mixture to help the cream float.
- The starter converts the grain starches to sugars, and sugars to ethanol.
- _Confectioners 'sugar_ is a very finely ground form of cane or beet sugar.
- “Hold on there, sug,” he croaked, pronouncing the endearment like the first part of the word sugar.
- The term sugar is applied rather loosely to a large number of substances characterized by the quality of sweetness.
- These are made from granulated or other coarse sugar, while the uncooked ones are made from XXXX, or _confectioners ', sugar_, as it is sometimes called.
- The English word sugar comes from the Arabic imitation of the Sanskrit sharkara, meaning gravel or small chunks of material; candy from the Arabic version of the Sanskrit for sugar itself, khandakah.
- Because the syrup from the canned pears are used in the recipe, very little extra sugar is added to it, but if you want to play with using fresh pears, a substitution with honey could probably be made.
- Hence in the making of candy from granulated sugar, it is desirable to add glucose or sirup to granulated sugar or to change some of the crystallized sugar to a sugar which crystallizes with difficulty, _i. e._ _invert sugar_.