sugars

Noun

sugar (countable and uncountable, plural sugars)

1. (uncountable) 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.1792, Francis Collingwood, The universal cook: and city and country housekeeper
2. (countable) 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 quality1915 September 18, “Drying Sugars Essential to Their Preservation”, in The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 55
3. (countable) Any 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.1942, James E. Kraus, Effects of partial defoliation at transplanting time on subsequent
4. (countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
   • He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
5. A bowl or other container of sugar.
   • Pass the sugar, please
6. (countable) A term of endearment.
   • I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.

   Synonyms:

   babber, babe, precious, bae, baby, babycakes, bubba, bully, buttercup, cabbage

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