English Dictionary

sugar

/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/

noun

(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.

I need to buy some sugar for baking a cake.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.

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.

意味（2）

(countable) A 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

意味（3）

(countable, chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.

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.

意味（4）

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

“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.”

意味（5）

(countable) A term of endearment.

I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.

意味（6）

(countable, slang) A kiss.

Gimme some sugar, baby.

意味（7）

(chiefly southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

There are depths and heights of beauty in him beyond tears - but there is no sugar, not even any honey.

意味（8）

(uncountable, informal) Diabetes.

One respondent said that he had been told by his doctor that he had 'sugar' and diabetes, thus affirming for him the distinctiveness of the two illnesses. The distinction made sense to some of them as the relationship between diabetes and 'sugar' seemed to relate to their experiences of the West Indies, where 'sugar' was believed to be rare and diabetes common.

意味（9）

(dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.

Mons. Lemery is of Opinion that Sweetness proceeds from a close Mixture of an Acid with a Sulphur, or with an Oyl that temperates and corrects it; he supports his Conjecture by the instance of Sugar of Saturn, so called from its Sweetness, which is Lead, a Metal insipid in its self, but very Sulphureous, dissolved by an Acid.

意味（10）

Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

意味（11）

(US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.

意味（12）

(US, slang, uncountable, dated) Money.

意味（13）

(programming) Syntactic sugar.

However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar.