sugar
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- noun
- /ˈʃʊɡər/
:
azúcar
- She always adds a spoonful of sugar to her coffee in the morning.
- coffee and sugar
- tea and sugar
- sugar-sweetened beverages
And look at how much sugar goes into a cake.
- And look at how much sugar goes into a cake.
- I see the cream and sugar in it.
- OK, so we've got milk powder, sugar, milk ghee.
- You cannot tell people how much sugar is in our products.
- Because, you know, good cereals packed with sugar and junk and carbs.
- So get rid of all sugars, sweet things.
- But of course, you can learn to dislike sugar and to like bitters.
- I don't want to eat the sugar however I crave it.
- You know, it's like sugar frosting on sugar dough on sugar filling.
- So yeast, they love sugar and they hate salt.
- We're doing a one week sugar free detox.
Examples
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Who wants more sugar?
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And look at how much sugar goes into a cake.
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I see the cream and sugar in it.
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You cannot tell people how much sugar is in our products.
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I try to avoid sugar most of the time.
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Sugar amounts may be reduced to as low as one part sugar to eight parts water.
Academic text (1999) -
In one part we add the sugar and the flour needed.
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Patients with diabetes frequently have raised blood sugar when they are otherwise well.
Academic text (2012) -
You make Irish coffee with coffee, sugar, and whiskey, with whipped cream on top.
Fiction book (1990) -
I like sugar.
Synonyms
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3.4
A simple sugar that gives energy to living things and appears in many foods
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4.1
A simple sugar in honey and ripe fruit that people use to make food sweet
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1.0
Fine sugar used for baking and sprinkling on desserts
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3.2
A common sweet white sugar from plants that people use to sweeten food
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1.0
Small white sugar grains used for cooking and baking
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1.8
White sugar made from sugar cane or beet and used to sweeten food and drinks
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1.3
Sweetener made from the tall plant sugarcane used to sweeten food and drinks
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2.9
A sweet ingredient made from beet roots to sweeten food and drink
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2.7
A sweet solid you get by boiling juice from maple trees
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3.7
A small sweet part of food the body uses for quick energy, like glucose or fructose
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7.6
A white sugar made when starch breaks down into two simple sugar parts
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2.9
A sugar made from corn starch used to sweeten food and drinks
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2.7
A sugar in milk that gives it a slightly sweet taste
A common plant sugar used to make food sweet
A natural sugar found in ripe fruit and honey
A substance like sugar or starch that gives living things energy and helps form parts of cells
A sweetener made from wood or straw often used instead of sugar by people with diabetes
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- NSFW
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7.4
An older rich man who gives money and gifts to a younger person for romantic or sexual attention
- US
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1.1
A flat sweet cookie made from simple dough often decorated with icing or sugar
- US
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3.6
A North American tree with hard wood and a sweet liquid used to make syrup and sugar
- Specialized
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3.7
A small sweet part of food the body uses for quick energy, like glucose or fructose
- Specialized
1
2.8
You heat sugar until it melts and turns brown to add color and sweet taste
- Archaic
A large hard block of sugar often shaped like a cone that people break into pieces at home
- Specialized
A sweet syrup made by breaking down table sugar into two simple sugars found in honey and fruits
- Australian
A sweet tropical fruit with thick bumpy skin and soft white flesh around black seeds
- Offensive
A person who uses money or gifts to control and profit from people they date
- Philippine
A large tropical palm tree whose sweet sap makes sugar and wine and whose trunk gives sago
- Specialized
A sweetener made from wood or straw often used instead of sugar by people with diabetes
How Sweet
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6.3
4
4.4
- Specialized
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1.0
732
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- Specialized
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4.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sugar comes from an old Indian word śarkarā that meant 'grit' or 'small stones', because sugar first reached people as many little crystals, and traders brought it through Arabic sukkar. So sugar today is the sweet white crystals we put in tea and cakes.