Sugarnoun

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  radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.

Sugarname

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  A surname.

sugarnoun/ˈʃʊɡə/

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

  • To a pound of gooseberries take a pound and a half of double-refined sugar. Clarify the sugar with water, a pint to a pound of sugar, and when the syrup is cold, put the gooseberries single in your preserving pan, put the syrup to them, and set them on a gentle fire.
  • There appears to be no prospect of success in attempting to combat the crisis by international arrangement, and any improvement in sugar prices can only be looked for from a diminution of the production, either as a consequence of deficient crops, or of a reduction in manufacture.
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  Any specific variety of sugar.

  • The experience of sugar planters in Louisiana this year in holding their sugars in warehouse for future sales at better prices has revealed again, as it has done heretofore, the fact that the presence of moisture in the sugars is inimical to their maintaining their standard of quality
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  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAny of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.

  • 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.
  • Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.
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  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.”
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  A bowl or other container of sugar.

  • Pass the sugar, please
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  A term of endearment.

  • I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
  • Sugar, ah honey honey / You are my candy girl / And you've got me wanting you
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  slangAffection shown by kisses or kissing.

  • Gimme some sugar, baby.
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  slangEffeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

  • I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
  • There are depths and heights of beauty in him beyond tears - but there is no sugar, not even any honey.

sugarverb/ˈʃʊɡə/

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  To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

  • John heavily sugars his coffee.
  • 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.
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  To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

  • She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
  • He also published the "Weekly Recorder," an indefinite title, which was his way of sugaring what soon became in the region where it was published, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a very bitter pill.
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  regionalIn 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.

  • To sugar off, I prefer using a kettle that will hold about half a. barrel; and boil over a brisk, steady fire, till on dropping some of the syrup into cold water it will break like glass, then dip it into wooden trays to cool, and when it is grained stir it briskly.
  • A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she sugared off, I stood there.
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  biologyentomologynatural-sciencesTo apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

  • 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.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsTo rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

  • You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]
  • 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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  To compliment (a person).

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  To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

sugarintj/ˈʃʊɡə/

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  Minced oath of shit.

  • Oh, sugar!
  • "Oh, sugar! I suppose that's so," reflected Tobias, filling his pipe.