Word Finder - sugar

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

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A specific variety of sugar.

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Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.

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

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He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.

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A term of endearment.

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

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A kiss.

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Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

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I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.

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Diabetes.

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Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.

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Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with 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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Heroin.

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Money.

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Syntactic sugar.

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To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

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John heavily sugars his coffee.

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To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

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She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.

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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.

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To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

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To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

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To compliment (a person).

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Used in place of shit!

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Oh, sugar!

I always bring Diablo a sugar cube.

The Bacterium acidi lacti described by Pasteur decomposes milk sugar into lactic acid.

It's ham with a maple syrup and brown sugar glaze on it.

When a few lumps of sugar are added to a glass of water and stirred, the sugar soon disappears and we are left with a uniform liquid resembling water, except that it is sweet.

One day we were out, so I put some powdered sugar in a bag.

Regardless, Clarissa's sugar coated barbs hit their mark all too often.

Its principal imports are coffee (of which it is the greatest continental market), tea, sugar, spices, rice, wine (especially from Bordeaux), lard (from Chicago), cereals, sago, dried fruits, herrings, wax (from Morocco and Mozambique), tobacco, hemp, cotton (which of late years shows a large increase), wool, skins, leather, oils, dyewoods, indigo, nitrates, phosphates and coal.

The sugar industry has made great strides, the amount of beetroot used having increased tenfold between 1880 and 1905.

The chief items are cotton goods, sugar and tea.

In the town of Raymond is a large beet sugar manufactory, and in the vicinity great quantities of beets are grown by irrigation.

On either side of the canal are the warehouses of wholesale dealers in cotton, wool, sugar, grain and other commodities.

Of the total sugar consumption of the country in1899-1904Louisiana produced somewhat more than a fifteenth.

The dried fruit used for dessert in European countries contains more than half its weight of sugar, about 6% of albumen, and 12% of gummy matter.

Date sugar is a valuable commercial product of the East Indies, obtained from the sap or toddy of Phoenix sylvestris, the toddy palm, a tree so closely allied to the date palm that it has been supposed to be the parent stock of all the cultivated varieties.

The juice, when not boiled down to form sugar, is either drunk fresh, or fermented and distilled to form arrack.

If a solution, let us say of sugar, be confined in a closed vessel through the walls of It is probable that in both these solutions complex ions exist at fairly high concentrations, but gradually gets less in number and finally disappear as the dilution is increased.

Van Hoff pointed out that measurements of osmotic pressure confirmed this value in the case of dilute solutions of cane sugar.

The freezing points and vapour pressures of solutions of sugar are also in conformity with the theoretical numbers.

Results have been obtained for solutions of sugar, where the experimental, number is 1 858, and for potassium chloride, which gives a depression of 3.720.

Sugar, cereals, tobacco, cotton and coffee are produced, and probably fruit may be raised successfully.

It appears to be synthesized in the plant tissues from carbon dioxide and water, formaldehyde being an intermediate product; or it may be a hydrolytic product of a glucoside or of a polysaccharose, such as cane sugar, starch, cellulose, &c. In the plant it is freely converted into more complex sugars, poly-saccharoses and also proteids.

Its taste is somewhat sweet, its sweetening power being estimated at from a to -*- that of cane sugar.

The cyanhydrin is hydrolysable to an acid, the lactone of which may be reduced by sodium amalgam to a glucoheptose, a non-fermentable sugar containing seven carbon atoms. By repeating the process a non-fermentable gluco-octose and a fermentable glucononose may be prepared.

These transformations are fully discussed in the article Sugar.

Of the greatest importance is the alcoholic fermentation brought about by yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae seu vini); this follows the equation CH120 6 =2C 2 H 6 0+2CO 2, Pasteur considering 94 to 95% of the sugar to be so changed.

The glucose of commerce, which may be regarded as a mixture of grape sugar, maltose and dextrins, is prepared by hydrolysing starch by boiling with a dilute mineral acid.

The surrounding country, which is traversed by gravel roads leading to the principal towns of the province, is fertile and well cultivated, producing sugar, tobacco and rice in abundance.

Part of this commerce (textiles, sugar, tobacco, steel goods) is conveyed by sea to the Pacific ports.

The industries of Dessau include the production of sugar, which is the chief manufacture, woollen, linen and cotton goods, carpets, hats, leather, tobacco and musical instruments.

It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and its industries include cloth, sugar and stocking manufactures, besides breweries and tanneries.

The principal industries are, the metallurgic and textile industries in all their branches, milling, brewing and chemicals; paper, leather and silk; cloth, objets de luxe and millinery; physical and musical instruments; sugar, tobacco factories and foodstuffs.

It thus appears that white lead and sugar of lead were undifferentiated.

Lead chromate, PbCrO 4, is prepared industrially as a yellow pigment, chrome yellow, by precipitating sugar of lead solution with potassium bichromate.

Lead acetate, Pb(C2H302)2.3H20 (called "sugar" of lead, on account of its sweetish taste), is manufactured by dissolving massicot in aqueous acetic acid.

He took his place, as a matter of course, among the Conservatives, and delivered his maiden speech in May 1850 on the sugar duties.

In 1586 sugar is mentioned as an import, and in 1646 deal boards were brought here from Hamburg.

The industries embrace granite quarries, wood-pulp factories, and factories for sugar, tobacco, curtains, travelling-bags, boots, &c. There are railway communications with Gothenburg and all parts of Sweden and regular coastal and steamer services.

The principal exports are sugar, coal, cereals, wool, forage, cement, chalk, phosphates, iron and steel, tools and metal-goods, thread and vegetables.

Columbium pentachloride, CbC1 5, is obtained in yellow needles when a mixture of the pentoxide and sugar charcoal is heated in a current of air-free chlorine.

It rises on an elevated tableland in the state of Sao Paulo and flows across the state of Rio de Janeiro from west to east, through a broad fertile valley producing coffee in its most elevated districts and sugar on its alluvial bottom-lands nearer the sea.

Sugar cane, another exotic, has an equally wide distribution, and cotton is grown along the coast from Maranhao to Sao Paulo.

The exports cover a wide range of agricultural, pastoral and natural productions, including coffee, rubber, sugar, cotton, cocoa, Brazil nuts, mate (Paraguay tea), hides, skins, fruits, gold, diamonds, manganese ore, cabinet woods and medicinal leaves, roots and resins.

No other country has been able to equal Brazil in the production of coffee, and under better labour conditions the country might compete with the foremost in the production of cane sugar, cotton and tobacco.

Sugar plantations were laid out in the vicinity.

The same infatuated passion for mining speculation which had characterized the Spanish settlers in South America now began to actuate the Portuguese; labourers and capital were drained off to the mining districts, and Brazil, which had hitherto in great measure supplied Europe with sugar, sank before the competition of the English and French.

Besides fruits of nearly all kinds there are cultivated in the low moist regions the sugar-cane, the tea, coffee and tobacco plants, arrowroot, cayenne pepper, cotton, &c. The area under sugar in 1905 was 45,840 acres and the produce 532,067 cwt.

The sugar cane, like tea, was first introduced in 1850, the first canes being brought from Mauritius.

The chief exports, not all products of the province, are coal, wool, mohair, hides and skins, wattle bark, tea, sugar, fruits and jams. The import trade is of a most varied character, and a large proportion of the goods brought into the country are in transit to the Transvaal and Orange Free State, Natal affording, next to Delagoa Bay, the shortest route to the Rand.

The British settlers soon realized that the coast lands were suited to the cultivation of tropical or semi-tropical products, and from 1852 onward sugar, coffee, cotton and arrow-root were introduced, tea being afterwards substituted for coffee.

The sugar industry soon became of importance, and the planters were compelled to seek for large numbers of labourers.