Sugar

/ˈʃʊɡə/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
2. (countable) Any specific variety of sugar.
3. (countable, chemistry) Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.
4. (countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
5. A bowl or other container of sugar.
6. (countable) A term of endearment.
7. (uncountable, slang) Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
8. (chiefly southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

Example Sentences

To a pound of gooseberries take a pound and a half of double-refined sugar. Clarify the sugar with water, a pint to a pound of sugar, and when the syrup is cold, put the gooseberries single in your preserving pan, put the syrup to them, and set them on a gentle fire.

There appears to be no prospect of success in attempting to combat the crisis by international arrangement, and any improvement in sugar prices can only be looked for from a diminution of the production, either as a consequence of deficient crops, or of a reduction in manufacture.

Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.

The experience of sugar planters in Louisiana this year in holding their sugars in warehouse for future sales at better prices has revealed again, as it has done heretofore, the fact that the presence of moisture in the sugars is inimical to their maintaining their standard of quality

At the end of the second week there were less reducing sugars in the unpruned plants than in the previous week, but those in the pruned plants were the same.

Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.

The major free sugars in plants are the monosaccharides, glucose and fructose (and the disaccharide sucros), together with traces of xylose, rhamnose and galactose.

Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars.

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• sugars
• shugar
• sugaring
• sugared

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