sugar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals

   includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances

2. 2
   verb

   sweeten with sugar

   sugar your tea

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

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

   He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.

7. 7
   noun

   A term of endearment.

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

8. 8
   noun

   Affection shown by kisses or kissing.

   Gimme some sugar, baby.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iran…