SUGAR
\ʃˈʊɡə], \ʃˈʊɡə], \ʃ_ˈʊ_ɡ_ə]\
Definitions of SUGAR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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
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a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
By Princeton University
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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
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a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
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Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
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In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
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To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
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To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
By Oddity Software
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A sweet crystalline substance obtained from sugar cane, sugar beets, etc.; any sweet substance like sugar, as glucose.
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To sprinkle or cover with sugar; sweeten; to make less disagreeable by flattery.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A sweet substance obtained chiefly from a kind of cane.
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To sprinkle, or mix with sugar: to compliment.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Made of sugar. Sugar of lead, acetate of lead, a sweet but highly poisonous substance.
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A well-known, sweet, crystalline substance, obtained from the sugar-cane, and also the beet, maple, and other plants.
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To impregnate, season, cover, sprinkle, or mix with sugar, or as with sugar; to sweeten.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The sweet substance obtained from the expressed juice of the sugar-cane, beet-root, &c.
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Made of or resembling sugar.
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To season, sweeten, or cover with sugar.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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is prepared from the expressed juice of the sugar-cane, boiled with the addition of quicklime or common vegetable alkali. It is used, in pharmacy, for the preparation of syrups, conserves, lozenges, etc. It is nutritious, and is employed as an aliment, and as a eutrophic demulcent and antiseptic. Dissolved in small quantities in water, as in tea, it is apt to disagree with dyspeptics; an evil which does not always occur when the same substance is taken more largely.
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Saccharum- s. Barley, Penidium, Saccharum bordeatum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A name at first applied only to cane s. and beet s.; subsequently to any sweet crystalline substance, and, more definitely, to a class of chemical compounds made up of the hexoses. See cane sugar and glucose.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French, German, Latin] A sweet, crystalline substance obtained from certain vegetable products, as the sugar-cane, maple, beet, sorghum, &c.;-that which resembles sugar in taste, appearance, or the like, as sugar of lead ;- figuratively, compliment or flattery employed to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious.
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