sugar

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sugar

A baker sprinkles sugar on top of a freshly baked cake.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A sweet crystalline substance: A sweet, white or brown, water-soluble carbohydrate, typically sucrose, obtained from various plants, especially sugarcane and sugar beet, used as a sweetener in food and drink.
    • Biochemistry term: Any of a class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and including substances like glucose and sucrose.
    • Informal term for money: (Slang) Used as a familiar or affectionate term for money.

  2. Verb:

    • To sweeten with sugar: To add sugar to something.
    • To make superficially attractive or palatable: To coat or disguise something unpleasant with something pleasant.
Examples

  • Noun:

    • She added one spoon of sugar to her coffee.
    • Fruits contain natural sugars like fructose.
    • He needs some sugar to buy that car. (informal)

  • Verb:

    • Did you sugar your tea?
    • He tried to sugar his criticism with a compliment.
Advanced Usage
  • "sugar the pill": To make something unpleasant seem less so.
    • The company offered extra benefits to sugar the pill of the pay freeze.
Variants and Related Words
  • Sugary (adj): Tasting of, containing, or resembling sugar; excessively sweet.
    • The drink was too sugary for my taste.
  • Sugarless (adj): Containing no sugar.
    • He buys sugarless gum.
  • Sugarcoat (v): To coat with sugar; to make something seem more positive or pleasant than it really is.
    • You can't sugarcoat the bad news.
Synonyms
  • Sweetener (n): A substance used to sweeten food or drink.
  • Sucrose (n): The chemical name for common table sugar.
  • Dough (n): (Slang) Money.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Sugar over: To cover or coat with sugar; to gloss over.
    • You can't just sugar over the problems; we need real solutions.
Related Idioms
  • "like taking candy from a baby": (Similar in concept to something being very easy, often involving something sweet/desirable like sugar).
    • Winning that game was like taking candy from a baby.
sugar

A baker sprinkles sugar on top of a freshly baked cake.

Noun
  1. informal terms for money
  2. 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
  3. a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
Verb
  1. sweeten with sugar
    • sugar your tea

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