sugar

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

sugars

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

sugar

past (v2)

sugared

past participle (v3)

sugared

present participle

sugaring

3rd person singular

sugars

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.

   • Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.
   • Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars.
   • 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.

2. 2.A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.

   • 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.”

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

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

4. 4.Any specific variety of sugar.

   • Tom put salt in his coffee instead of sugar.
   • We have run out of sugar.
   • Put in a little more sugar.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

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

   • She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
   • She shook her head sadly at him. "No, it won't do, Arthur. I'm not in a mood to be sugared."
   • But step by step, aided by Claude Morin's arguments, Lévesque had led the party through the process of sugaring what he saw as the pill of independence.

2. 2.To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

   • "There spoke the real British scorn," she said, sugaring her tea, "the fine British contempt for every other nation."
   • See, I've put sugar-plums on his coat for fancy buttons, sugared his shirt-frill, and put on a red almond to his hat-front.
   • John heavily sugars his coffee.

3. 3.To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

   • Sugaring attracts some species of moth that do not readily come to light.
   • Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom.
   • The latter are best taken by "sugaring", painting patches of mixed beer and sugar on a series of tree trunks, and making several rounds at twilight with a lantern and a cyanide bottle.

4. 4.To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

   • Sure, you could sugar the latter to look like the former (effectively implementing closures as objects), but it seems simpler to just allow the former.

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