sugar
[noun]
Synonyms: money, bread, rhino, rocks, scratch, shekels, smash, stuff, stumpy, wampum

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. sug‧ar¹ S2 W3 /ˈʃʊɡə $ -ər/ noun
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: çucre, from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Arabic sukkar, from Persian shakar, from Sanskrit sarkara]

1. [uncountable] a sweet white or brown substance that is obtained from plants and used to make food and drinks sweet:
Do you take sugar in your coffee?

2. [countable] British English the amount of sugar that a small spoon can hold:
How many sugars do you want in your tea?

3. [countable] technical one of several sweet substances formed in plants

4. spoken used to address someone you like very much

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. sugar² verb [transitive]
to add sugar or cover something with sugar Synonym : sweeten:
Did you sugar my coffee?
—sugared adjective:
sugared almonds

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

sugar
noun
ADJ. raw, unrefined | refined | natural Fruit juices contain natural sugars.
simple simple sugars, such as glucose
brown, white Add one cup of soft brown sugar.
caster, demerara, granulated, lump, icing | beet, cane | fruit Fructose is a fruit sugar.
blood to raise blood sugar levels
QUANT. lump, spoonful | bag, packet
VERB + SUGAR put in/on, spoon, sprinkle, stir in/into, take (= in tea or coffee) He stirred another spoonful of sugar into his tea. Do you take sugar in your tea?
contain | produce
SUGAR + VERB dissolve
SUGAR + NOUN cube, lump | bowl | substitute | intake a high sugar intake
beet, cane | industry, plantation, production, refinery
PHRASES high/low/reduced sugar content, high/low in sugar Most junk food is high in sugar.
no added sugar apple juice with no added sugar

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

sugar

a teaspoon/spoonful of sugar
The drink contains seven teaspoons of sugar per can.
a lump of sugar (also a sugar lump) (=a small block of sugar)
He put three lumps of sugar in his coffee.
take sugar (=have sugar in your tea or coffee)
‘Do you take sugar?’ ‘No, thank you.’
sprinkle something with sugar
Sprinkle the cake with sugar.
sugar dissolves (=becomes part of a liquid)
Stir until the sugar has dissolved.

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