Complete Definition of "sugar"

see|sugár
English
wikipedia|dab=sugar (disambiguation)|sugar

Etymology
From OF. term|çucre||sugar|langfro, from ML. term|succarum|langla, from Arab. term|س�ر|س���ر|trsúkkar, from Pers. term|شکر|langfa|trshekar, from Skr. term|शर��रा|trsharkara||ground or candied sugar, originally meaning grit, gravel|langsa (cognate with Greek term|κ��κη||pebble|langel).

Pronunciation
a|UK IPA|/���g�/, SAMPA|/"SUg@
a|US enPR|sho�ogʹ�r, IPA|/���g�/, SAMPA|/"SUg@`
audio|en-us-sugar.ogg|Audio (US)
:rhymes|�ɡ�(r)

Noun
en-noun|s|-

  1. uncountable Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
  2. countable 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.

  1. context|countable|chemistry Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
  2. countable A generic term for sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc.
  3. context|countable A term of endearment.

#:I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.

  1. context|countable|slang A kiss.
  2. context|mainly|_|southern|_|US|slang effeminacy|Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

#: I think John has a little bit of sugar in him

Derived terms
rel-top4|terms derived from the noun sugar
10x sugar
acid of sugar
acorn sugar
ambered sugar
amino sugar, aminosugar
anhydrosugar
anhydrous sugar
animal sugar
aphis-sugar
as sweet as sugar, sweet as sugar
baker's sugar
Barbados sugar
barley sugar, barley-sugar
bar sugar
bastard sugar
beechwood sugar
beetroot sugar
beet sugar, beet-sugar
berry sugar
besugar
birch sugar
black sugar
blanch sugar
blood sugar
brain sugar
blown sugar
boiled sugar
brown sugar
burnt sugar
candied sugar
candy sugar
cane sugar, cane-sugar
caramelised sugar, caramelized sugar
caramel sugar
caster sugar, castor sugar
CDP-sugar
centrifugal sugar
cinnamon sugar
clarified sugar
clayed sugar
coarse sugar
coffee sugar
colored sugar crystals
compound sugar
compressible sugar
confectioner's sugar, confectioners' sugar
corn sugar
corn sugar syrup
cracked sugar
crashed sugar
crude sugar
crushed sugar
crystalline sugar
crystallisable sugar, crystallizable sugar
crystallised sugar, crystallized sugar
crystal sugar
culinary sugar
cytidine diphosphosugar
date sugar, date-sugar
dehydrosugar
demerara sugar
deoxy sugar, desoxy sugar
desugar
diabetes sugar, diabetic sugar
double-refined sugar
double sugar
dTDP-sugar
English sugar
essence of sugar
feathered sugar
female sugar
fluid sugar
flying sugar
free sugar
form sugar
fruit sugar, fruit-sugar
gelatin sugar
granular sugar
granulated sugar
grape sugar, grape-sugar
green sugar
hard sugar
heart sugar
heavy sugar
hepatic sugar
high sugar
horse sugar
icing sugar
invert sugar
inverted sugar
kitchen sugar
lead-sugar
licorice sugar
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liquid sugar
liver-sugar
loaf sugar, loaf-sugar
low sugar
lump of sugar
lump sugar
male sugar
malt sugar, malt-sugar
manna sugar
maple sugar, maple-sugar
milk sugar, milk-sugar
mill white sugar
modified Sheather's sugar flotation method
moist sugar
moon sugar
w:Mount Sugarloaf|Mount Sugarloaf
mountain-ash sugar
muscovado sugar
muscle sugar
mushroom sugar
natural sugar
neither sugar nor salt
nest sugar, nest-sugar
nib sugar
nibbed sugar
nitrosugar
non-sugar, nonsugar
not made of sugar or salt
nucleoside-diphosphate sugar
oil sugar
palm sugar, palm-sugar
pearl sugar
pearled sugar
pectin sugar
perilla sugar
phosphosugar
pine sugar
polyisoprenyl phosphate sugar
potato sugar, potato-sugar
pounded sugar
powder sugar
powdered sugar
preserving sugar
pulled sugar
raw sugar
reducing sugar
refined sugar
refining sugar
refuse sugar
residual sugar
rimming sugar
RNA sugar
rock sugar
sanding sugar
sifted sugar
simple sugar
soft sugar
sorghum sugar
specific soluble sugar
spun sugar
stamped sugar
store sugar
strained sugar
starch sugar
strike of sugar
sugar-acarus
sugar acid
w:Sugar Act|Sugar Act
sugar alcohol
sugar aldehyde
sugarallie, sugarally, sugarellie, sugarolly
sugar almond, sugar-almond
sugar and honey<!--rhyming slang-->
w:Sugar and Molasses Act|Sugar and Molasses Act
sugar-ant
sugar apple, sugar-apple
sugar aquatint
sugar-babe, sugar baby, sugar-baby
sugar-bag
sugar-bakehouse
sugar-baker
sugar-bakery
sugar band
sugar basin
sugar bean, sugar-bean
sugar beet
sugar berg
sugar berry, sugar-berry, sugarberry
sugar-birch
sugar bird, sugar-bird, sugarbird
sugar block
sugar boogers
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sugar bowl
sugar-box
sugar-bread
sugar brother
sugar bush, sugar-bush, sugarbush
sugar-butter sauce
sugar buzz
sugar-cake
sugar camp, sugar-camp
sugar candian, sugar-candian
sugar-candied
sugar candy, sugar-candy
sugar cane, sugar-cane, sugarcane
sugar card
sugar-caster
sugar cataract
sugar chain
sugar charcoal
sugar-chest
w:Sugar City|Sugar City
sugar-coat, sugarcoat
sugar-cone
sugar cookie
sugar core
sugar corn
w:Sugar Creek|Sugar Creek<!--not the same as "Sugarcreek"-->
w:Sugarcreek|Sugarcreek<!--not the same as "Sugar Creek"-->
sugar-creeper
w:Sugar Crisp|Sugar Crisp
sugar-crusher
sugar crust
sugar cube, sugar-cube
sugar-cured
sugar daddy
sugar diabetes
sugar-disease
sugar-eater
sugar ester
sugar-free
sugar fungus
sugar-garden
sugargerry
sugar glass
sugar glider
sugar grass, sugar-grass
w:Sugar Grove|Sugar Grove
sugar grove
sugar gum, sugar-gum
sugar hackberry
sugar high
w:Sugar Hill|Sugar Hill
sugar honey ice tea
sugar-house, sugarhouse
sugar-icing liver
sugar indigestion
sugarish
sugar kelp
w:Sugar Land|Sugar Land
w:Sugarland Run|Sugarland Run
sugarleaf
sugarless
sugar-like
sugar-lime
sugar loaf, sugar-loaf, sugarloaf
sugar-louse
sugar lump, sugar-lump
sugarly
sugar mama, sugar mamma, sugar momma, sugar mummy
sugar-man
sugar maple, sugar-maple
sugar-meat
sugar melon, sugar-melon
sugar mill
sugar-millet
sugar mimic
sugar mite, sugar-mite
<!--"sugar momma" is listed under "sugar mama" above-->
w:Sugar Mountain|Sugar Mountain
sugar mouse
<!--"sugar mummy" is listed under "sugar mama" above-->
sugar nib
sugar nip
sugar nippers
sugar-non-specific nuclease
w:Sugar Notch|Sugar Notch
sugar of acorns
sugar of Alisaunder
sugar of Babylon
sugar of Barbary
sugar of Candy
sugar of Cipre
sugar of flesh
sugar of iron
sugar of lead
sugar of Marrokes
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sugar of milk
sugar of muscle
sugar of Saturn
sugar of steel
sugar on snow, sugar-on-snow
sugar orchard, sugar-orchard
sugar palm
sugar paper, sugar-paper
sugar pea
sugar-pear
sugar pease
sugar-pellet
sugar-penide
sugar-phosphatase
sugar-pie
sugar pill
sugar pine, sugar-pine
sugar plantation
sugar-plate
sugar plum, sugar-plum, sugarplum
sugar pucker
sugar puff
Sugar Puffs
sugar-pumpkin
sugar push
sugar quartz
sugar rag
sugar-reed
sugar-refiner
sugar refinery, sugar-refinery
sugar-refining
sugar residue
w:Sugar River|Sugar River
sugar-roll
sugar royal
sugar-roset
sugar rush
sugar sack
sugar sand
sugar-sensitivity
sugar shack, sugar shanty
sugar shell
sugar sifter
w:Honey Smacks|Sugar Smacks
sugar snap, sugar snap pea
sugar snow
sugar-snuff
sugar soap
sugar-sop
sugar sorghum
sugar-spar
sugar-spirit
sugar spoon
sugar squirrel
sugar stick
sugar substitute
sugar sumac
sugar syrup
sugar-teat
sugar test
sugar thermometer
sugartime
sugar tit, sugar-tit
sugar tongs
sugar tree, sugar-tree
sugar trough
sugar tumor, sugar tumour
w:Sugar Valley|Sugar Valley
sugar vase
sugar-vinegar
sugar-wash
sugar water, sugar-water
sugar-weather
sugar weed
sugar-wood
sugar-work
sugar-worm
sugar-wrack
sugary
superfine sugar
superior sugar
w:Golden Crisp|Super Sugar Crisp
<!--"sweet as sugar" is listed above with "as sweet as sugar"-->
syntactic sugar
table sugar
threshold sugar
triple sugar iron agar
true sugar
turbinado sugar
uncrystallisable sugar, uncrystallizable sugar
unrefined sugar
urine sugar
vanilla sugar
white sugar
wood sugar, wood-sugar
yellow sugar
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Translations
trans-top|sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink
Albanian: t-|sq|sheqer|m|xs=Albanian
Bulgarian: t+|bg|за�а�|m|trzáhar|scCyrl
Catalan: t-|ca|sucre|m
Czech: t-|cs|cukr|m
Danish: t+|da|sukker|n
Dutch: t+|nl|suiker
Finnish: t+|fi|sokeri
French: t+|fr|sucre|m
German: t+|de|Zucker|m
Indonesian: t+|id|gula|xs=Indonesian
Greek: t+|el|ζά�α�η|f|trzáchari|scGrek
trans-mid
Italian: t+|it|zucchero|m
Japanese: t-|ja|��|scJpan (t-|ja|���|trsat�|sc=Jpan)
Kurdish:

Latvian: t|lv|cukurs|m|xs=Latvian
Romanian: t-|ro|zah�r|n
Romansch: t-|rm|zutger|m|xs=Romansch
Russian: t|ru|�а�а�|m|trsá�ar|scCyrl
Slovene: t+|sl|sladkor|m
Spanish: t+|es|azúcar|m
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trans-top|any of a series of carbohydrates used by organisms to store energy
Danish: t|da|sukker|n
Finnish: t+|fi|sokeri
German: t+|de|Zucker|m
trans-mid
Greek: t+|el|�άκ�α�ο|n|scGrek (sákcharo), t|el|ζά�α�ο|n|scGrek (zácharo)
Japanese: �質 (����, t�shitsu)
Kurdish:

Latvian: t|lv|cukurs|m|xs=Latvian
Russian: t|ru|�а�а�|m|trsá�ar|scCyrl
Slovene: t+|sl|sladkor|m
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trans-top|generic term for sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc
Czech: t-|cs|cukr|m
Danish: sukker n
Finnish: t+|fi|sokeri
German: t+|de|Zucker|m
trans-mid
Greek: t+|el|�άκ�α�ο|n|scGrek (sákcharo), t|el|ζά�α�ο|n|scGrek (zácharo)
Japanese: � (��, t�), �� (����, t�rui)
Kurdish:

Latvian: cukurs m
Russian: �а�а� (sá�ar) m
Slovene: sladilo n
Vietnamese: t+|vi|�ư�ng|xs=Vietnamese
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trans-top|term of endearment
Danish: skat
Finnish: t-|fi|kultanen|alt=kultaseni
French: mon#French|mon chéri m, ma#French|ma chérie f, mon chou m
trans-mid
Slovene: cukr�ek m
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trans-top|slang: a kiss
<!--Add SLANG terms to this table, where they exist-->
Finnish: t-|fi|pusu
French: t-|fr|bise|f, t+|fr|bisou|m, t-|fr|bizou|m
trans-mid
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trans-top|slang: effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality
trans-mid
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trans-top|translations to be checked
ttbc|Abaza: �а��г�в (fa�y�ev)
ttbc|Abkhaz: а�ака� (ašakar)
ttbc|Adyghe: ��о���г�� (š�ouš�yg"u)
ttbc|Arabic: ARchar|س�ر|س���ر unicode|(súkkar) m
ttbc|Blackfoot: náápiiniiwan
ttbc|Bosnian: še�er#Bosnian|še�er m
ttbc|Breton: sukr m
ttbc|Bulgarian: за�а� (zá�ar) m
ttbc|Caddo: habeh'tsuwid'dish
ttbc|Catalan: sucre m
ttbc|Chechen: �ека� (šekar)
ttbc|Cheyenne: ve'keemahpe
ttbc|Chinese: � (táng)
ttbc|Choctaw: hapi champuli
ttbc|Comanche: pasinapihnab
ttbc|Croatian: še�er#Croatian|še�er m
ttbc|Dutch: suiker m
ttbc|Esperanto: sukero
ttbc|Estonian: suhkur
ttbc|Frisian: sûker
ttbc|Gujarati: �ા�ડ (kh�.n.d)
ttbc|Hebrew: ס��ר (sukár) m
ttbc|Hindi: ��न� (�īnī), �ा�ड (kh�.n.d) श���र (šakkar), श�र (šakar), शर��रा (šarkr�)
ttbc|Hungarian: cukor
ttbc|Icelandic: sykur m, (medical) sykra (2) f
trans-mid
ttbc|Ido: sukro
ttbc|Ingush: �ека� (šekar)
ttbc|Interlingua: sucro
ttbc|Italian: zucchero m (1,2)
ttbc|Latin: saccharum n
ttbc|Korean: �� (seoltang)
ttbc|Kurdish: �ekir
ttbc|Lithuanian: cukrus m
ttbc|Mohawk: katsikhe'takenra
ttbc|Norwegian: sukker
ttbc|Ojibwe: ziinzibaakwad
ttbc|Persian: FAchar|شکر (shekar)
ttbc|Polish: cukier m
ttbc|Portuguese: açúcar m
ttbc|Romanian: zah�r
ttbc|Scottish Gaelic: siùcar m
ttbc|Serbian: Cyrillic: �е�е�#Serbian|�е�е�; Latin: še�er#Serbian|še�er m
ttbc|Sindhi: SDchar|ک��|ک���� (kand) f
ttbc|Slovak: cukor m
ttbc|Swedish: socker
ttbc|Telugu: ప��దార (paM�ad�ra), �����ర (�akkera), త�పి లవణమ� (tīpi lavaMamu)
ttbc|Turkish: �eker
ttbc|Ukrainian: ��ко� (tsúkor) m
ttbc|Urdu: URchar|���� (�īnī), URchar|شکر (šakar), URchar|کھا�� (kh�n.d)
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Verb
en-verb

  1. transitive To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

#:John heavily sugars his coffee.

  1. transitive To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

#:She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.

Synonyms
sense|add sugar to sweeten
sense|make less unpleasant sweeten, sugar-coat

Derived terms
rel-top|Terms derived from the verb sugar
sugared
sugarer
sugaring
rel-mid
sugar off
sugar the pill
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Translations
trans-top|to add sugar to, to sweeten
Danish: komme sukker i, søde
Finnish: sokeroida
French: t-|fr|sucrer
German: zuckern
Italian: t+|it|zuccherare
trans-mid
Russian: �а�а�и�� (sá�arit') impf, по�а�а�и�� (posá�arit') pf
Slovene: sladkati
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trans-top|to make something seem less unpleasant
Danish: indsukre
Finnish: t-|fi|pehmentää, t-|fi|kaunistella
German: versü�en
Italian: t+|it|zuccherare
trans-mid
Russian: под�ла��и�� (podslastít') pf
Slovene: sladkati
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Interjection
en-intj

  1. context|informal|euphemism Used in place of shit!

#: Oh, sugar!

Translations
trans-top|used in place of shit!
German: Scheibenkleister! m, Scheibenhonig! m
trans-mid
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See also
rel-top4|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
dulcin
golden syrup
demerara
dextrose
erythritol
erythrose
rel-mid4
erythrulose
Florida crystals
fructose
fruit syrup
fucose
furanose
galactose
glucose
glyco-
glycyrrhizin
goor, gur
gulose
heptose
hexose
high fructose corn syrup
holing cane
honey
idose
inulin
isomalt
jaggery
karupatti
ketose
lactilol
lactose
rel-mid4
lugduname
lyxose
maltitol
maltose
mannitol
mannose
maple syrup
mizuame
molasses
monellin
muscovado
neohesperidin dihydrochalcone
neotame
-ose
panela
panocha, panoche
pentose
polyol
psicose
pyranose
rhamnose
ribose
ribulose
rum
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saccharide
saccharin
sedoheptulose
sorbitol
sorbose
stachyose
sucralose
sucrose
Steen's cane syrup
stevia
steviol glycoside
sweetener
sweet sorghum
syrup
tagatose
talose
thaumatin
threose
treacle
trehalose
turbinado
volemitol
xylitol
xylose
xylulose
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Category:1000 English basic words
Category:Carbohydrates
Category:Sugars|*


Basque

Etymology
From term|su|langeu + term|gar|langeu.

Noun
infl|eu|noun

  1. flame

Portuguese

Etymology
L.|pt term|sugere|lang=pt.

Verb
infl|pt|verb

  1. To suck.

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