Pronunciation Noun
sugar
- (uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- (countable) A specific variety of sugar.
- (countable, chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- Hypernyms: Thesaurus:carbohydrate
- (countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
- He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
- (countable) A term of endearment.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:sweetheart
- I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
- (countable, slang) A kiss.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:buss
- (chiefly, southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
- I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
- (uncountable, informal) Diabetes.
- (dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
- Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.
- Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:heroin
- (US, slang, uncountable, dated) Money.
sugar (sugars, present participle sugaring; past and past participle sugared)
- (transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
- John heavily sugars his coffee.
- (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
- She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
- (US, Canada, regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
- (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
- (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
- 2002, "Jonathan Bromley", Fixed point arithmetic (on newsgroup comp.arch.fpga)
- You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]
- 2006, "Neil Madden", Re: Closures (on newsgroup comp.lang.tcl)
- 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.
- 2002, "Jonathan Bromley", Fixed point arithmetic (on newsgroup comp.arch.fpga)
- (transitive) To compliment (a person).
- (add sugar to) sweeten
- (make less unpleasant) sweeten, sugar-coat
- French: sucrer
- German: zuckern
- Italian: zuccherare
- Portuguese: açucarar
- Russian: са́харить
- Spanish: azucarar, endulcorar, endulzar
- German: versüßen
- Italian: zuccherare
- Portuguese: açucarar, suavizar
- Russian: подсласти́ть
- Spanish: azucarar, endulzar
- (informal, euphemistic) Used in place of shit!
- Oh, sugar!
- French: zut, fichtre
- German: Scheibenkleister, Scheibenhonig
- Portuguese: mkrda, ferca, herfa, merca
- Russian: блин
- Spanish: jolines
Sugar
Proper noun
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