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NOUN | 1 | sugar, refined sugar | A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative |
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2 | sugar, carbohydrate, saccharide | An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals | |
3 | sugar, boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum | Informal terms for money | |
VERB | 1 | sugar, saccharify | Sweeten with sugar |
Sounds | shuh'ger |
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Rhymes | agar, anger, armiger, and 60 more rhymes in ger at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative. |
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Synonyms | refined sugar |
Narrower | caramel, caramelized sugar; lump sugar; sugarloaf, sugar loaf, loaf sugar; cane sugar; granulated sugar; beet sugar; corn sugar; brown sugar |
Broader | sweetening, sweetener |
Verbs | sugar |
Meaning | An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals. Includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances. Are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain. |
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Synonyms | carbohydrate, saccharide |
Narrower | ribose; beet sugar; cane sugar; deoxyribose; invert sugar; maple sugar; monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar; oligosaccharide; polysaccharide, polyose; jaggery, jagghery, jaggary; wood sugar, xylose |
Broader | macromolecule, supermolecule |
Meaning | Informal terms for money. |
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Synonyms | boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum |
Broader | money |
Meaning | Sweeten with sugar. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "sugar your tea" |
Synonyms | saccharify |
Broader | sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate |
Nouns | sugar |