Sugar
WordNet
noun
(1) A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
(2) Informal terms for money
(3) An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain
verb
(4) Sweeten with sugar
"Sugar your tea"
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Etymology
From , from , from Old Italian zucchero, from , from , from , akin to Acnient Greek .
Noun
- Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- When used to sweeten drink, an amount of such crystalline sucrose approximately equal to five grams or one teaspoon.
- He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
- Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- A generic term for sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc.
- A term of endearment.
- I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
- A kiss.
- Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
- I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
- Diabetes.
Verb
- To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
- John heavily sugars his coffee.
- To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
- She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
Interjection
- Used in place of shit!
- Oh, sugar!
See also
- 5-nitro-2-propoxyaniline
- agave syrup
- aldose
- alitame
- allose
- altrose
- amylose
- arabinose
- aspartame
- barley malt syrup
- birch syrup
- blanco directo
- Brazzein
- brown rice syrup
- caramel
- carbohydrate
- cellulose
- corn syrup
- cyclamate
- decose
- dulcin
- demerara
- dextrose
- erythritol
- erythrose
- erythrulose
- Florida crystals
- fructose
- fruit syrup
- fucose
- furanose
- galactose
- glucose
- glyco-
- glycyrrhizin
- golden syrup
- goor, gur
- gulose
- heptose
- hexose
- high fructose corn syrup
- holing cane
- honey
- idose
- inulin
- isomalt
- jaggery
- karupatti
- ketose
- lactilol
- lactose
- lugduname
- lyxose
- maltitol
- maltose
- mannitol
- mannose
- maple syrup
- mizuame
- molasses
- monellin
- muscovado
- neohesperidin dihydrochalcone
- neotame
- nonose
- octose
- -ose
- panela
- panocha, panoche
- pentose
- polyol
- psicose
- pyranose
- rhamnose
- ribose
- ribulose
- rum