Sugar

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim 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 quality”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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. isim A bowl or other container of sugar.

   “Pass the sugar, please”

6. isim A term of endearment.

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

7. isim Affection shown by kisses or kissing.

   “Gimme some sugar, baby.”

8. isim Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

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

9. isim Diabetes.

   “The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had sugar, and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes.”

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

    “Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.”

11. isim Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
12. isim Heroin.
13. isim Money.
14. isim Syntactic sugar.

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

15. fiil To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

    “John heavily sugars his coffee.”

16. fiil To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

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

17. fiil 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.

    “To sugar off, I prefer using a kettle that will hold about half a. barrel; and boil over a brisk, steady fire, till on dropping some of the syrup into cold water it will break like glass, then dip it into wooden trays to cool, and when it is grained stir it briskly.”

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

    “Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom.”

19. fiil To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

    “You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]”

20. fiil To compliment (a person).
21. fiil To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
22. ünlem Minced oath of shit.

    “Oh, sugar!”

23. isim radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.
24. özel isim A surname.