Meaning of sugar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
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2. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.
3. A surname.
4. A specific variety of sugar.
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5. Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
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6. A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
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7. A term of endearment.
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8. Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
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9. Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
   Southern, US, error-lua-timeout, slang, uncountable
10. Diabetes.
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11. Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
    countable, dated, error-lua-timeout, uncountable
12. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
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13. Heroin.
    US, error-lua-timeout, slang, uncountable
14. Money.
    US, dated, error-lua-timeout, slang, uncountable
15. Syntactic sugar.
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Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.”

““A slice of lemon and two sugars, please.” “You needn't have said that. I know how you like your tea. I know how you like everything.””

“Skim milk, two sugar.”

“Then there are the coffees, one with two sweeteners and no milk, one with one sweetener and milk, one with three sugars and a dash of milk, one with one sugar and lots of milk and finally her Uncle Samad who says that anything is fine.”

“I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.”

“Sugar, ah honey honey / You are my candy girl / And you've got me wanting you”

“Gimme some sugar, baby.”

“I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.”

“There are depths and heights of beauty in him beyond tears - but there is no sugar, not even any honey.”

“The crossdresser is showing the desire to be "sugar and spice" through feminine clothing and through the expression of feminine feelings.”

“Because of Patrick's mannerisms, the players teased him by referring to him as “Sweetness” or saying that he had “sugar” in his pants.”

“One respondent said that he had been told by his doctor that he had 'sugar' and diabetes, thus affirming for him the distinctiveness of the two illnesses. The distinction made sense to some of them as the relationship between diabetes and 'sugar' seemed to relate to their experiences of the West Indies, where 'sugar' was believed to be rare and diabetes common.”

“The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had sugar, and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes.”

“Don't you love it when you start a new Disease - the pamphlets, the prescriptions, the attention? And the past turning ironic, cloudy, as if you'd added a chemical - my house painter saying he has sugar, reminding me of my mother demanding the sweet drool from every baby.”

“The doctor told me I had sugar and would have to take pills.”

“The memorable event was watching my father test urine, his or that of sundry other folks who had “sugar”, as diabetes was known in the rural hills of Jamaica where I grew up.”

“Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.”

“Mons. Lemery is of Opinion that Sweetness proceeds from a close Mixture of an Acid with a Sulphur, or with an Oyl that temperates and corrects it; he supports his Conjecture by the instance of Sugar of Saturn, so called from its Sweetness, which is Lead, a Metal insipid in its self, but very Sulphureous, dissolved by an Acid.”

“The fluor acid, the acid of sugar, of phosphorus, and vitriol, separate magnelia from the acid of arsenic; but the acid of tartar, united with arsenicated magnesia, is generally found to compose a triple salt.”

“Sugar of milk is now produced by partly chemical means from milk-whey, the product being about two and a half pounds per hundred pounds of whey.”

“The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).”

“However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.”

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