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–noun

a sweet, crystalline substance, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.

2.	Chemistry. a member of the same class of carbohydrates, as lactose, glucose, or fructose.

3.	(sometimes initial capital letter) an affectionate or familiar term of address (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., esp. by a male to a female).

4.	a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter S.

5.	Slang. money.

6.	Slang. LSD

–verb (used with object)

7.	to cover, sprinkle, mix, or sweeten with sugar.

8.	to make agreeable.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to form sugar or sugar crystals.

10.	to make maple sugar.

—Verb phrase

11.	sugar off, (in making maple sugar) to complete the boiling down of the syrup in preparation for granulation.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME sugre, sucre (n.) < MF sucre < ML succārum < It zucchero < Ar sukkar; obscurely akin to Pers shakar, Gk sákcharon (see sacchar-)

]

—Related forms

sug·ar·less, adjective

sug·ar·like, adjective

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n.

A sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste. Also called table sugar.
Any of a class of water-soluble crystalline carbohydrates, including sucrose and lactose, having a characteristically sweet taste and classified as monosaccharides, disaccharides, and trisaccharides.
A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken.
Slang Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.

v. sug·ared, sug·ar·ing, sug·ars

v. tr.

To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.
To make less distasteful or more appealing.

v. intr.

To form sugar.
To form granules; granulate.
To make sugar or syrup from sugar maple sap. Often used with off.

[Middle English sugre, from Old French sukere, from Medieval Latin succārum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic sukkar, from Persian shakar, from Sanskrit śarkarā, grit, ground sugar.]

sug'ar·er n.

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c.1289, from O.Fr. sucre "sugar" (12c.), from M.L. succarum, from Arabic sukkar, from Pers. shakar, from Skt. sharkara "ground or candied sugar," originally "grit, gravel" (cognate with Gk. kroke "pebble"). The Arabic word also was borrowed in It. (zucchero), Sp. (azucar), and O.H.G. (zucura, Ger. Zucker), and its forms are represented in most European languages (cf. Serb. cukar, Pol. cukier, Rus. sakhar). Its Old World home was India (Alexander the Great's companions marveled at the "honey without bees") and it remained exotic in Europe until the Arabs began to cultivate it in Sicily and Spain; not until after the Crusades did it begin to rival honey as the West's sweetener. The Spaniards in the West Indies began raising sugar cane in 1506; first grown in Cuba 1523; first cultivated in Brazil 1532. The -g- in the Eng. form cannot be accounted for. The pronunciation shift from s- to sh- is probably from the initial long vowel sound syu- (as in sure). Slang "euphemistic substitute for an imprecation" [OED] is attested from 1891. As a term of endearment, first recorded 1930. Sugar maple is from 1753; sugar-plum is from 1608; sugar-daddy "elderly man who lavishes gifts on a young woman" first recorded 1926. Sugar coat (v.) "make more palatable" is from 1870. Sugar plum "small round candy" is from 1668. Sugar loaf was originally a moulded conical mass of refined sugar (1422); they're now obsolete, but sense extended 17c. to hills, hats, etc. of that shape.

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sugar
noun
1.	a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
2.	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 [syn: carbohydrate]
3.	informal terms for money [syn: boodle]
verb
1.	sweeten with sugar; "sugar your tea"

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sugar [ˈʃugə] noun

the sweet substance that is obtained from sugar-cane, or from the juice of certain other plants, and used in cooking and for sweetening tea, coffee etc
Example: Do you take sugar in your coffee?

Arabic:	سُكَّر
Chinese (Simplified):	糖
Chinese (Traditional):	糖
Czech:	cukr
Danish:	sukker
Dutch:	suiker
Estonian:	suhkur
Finnish:	sokeri
French:	sucre
German:	der Zucker
Greek:	ζάχαρη
Hungarian:	cukor
Icelandic:	sykur
Indonesian:	gula
Italian:	zucchero

Japanese:	砂糖
Korean:	설탕
Latvian:	cukurs
Lithuanian:	cukrus
Norwegian:	sukker
Polish:	cukier
Portuguese (Brazil):	açúcar
Portuguese (Portugal):	açúcar
Romanian:	zahăr
Russian:	сахар
Slovak:	cukor
Slovenian:	sladkor
Spanish:	azúcar
Swedish:	socker
Turkish:	şeker

sugar [ˈʃugə] verb

to sweeten, cover or sprinkle with sugar

Arabic:	يُحَلِّي، يُغَطّي بالسُّكَّر
Chinese (Simplified):	加（撒）糖于…
Chinese (Traditional):	加(撒)糖於…
Czech:	sladit
Danish:	søde; komme sukker på
Dutch:	suikeren
Estonian:	suhkurdama
Finnish:	sokeroida
French:	sucrer
German:	zuckern
Greek:	γλυκαίνω, ζαχαρώνω
Hungarian:	megcukroz
Icelandic:	sykra
Indonesian:	menggulai
Italian:	zuccherare

Japanese:	甘くする
Korean:	…에 설탕을 넣다［섞다, 뿌리다］
Latvian:	saldināt; uzkaisīt cukuru
Lithuanian:	pasaldinti, pabarstyti cukrumi
Norwegian:	strø sukker på, sukre
Polish:	słodzić, posypywać cukrem
Portuguese (Brazil):	adoçar
Portuguese (Portugal):	adoçar
Romanian:	a îndulci (cu zahăr)
Russian:	подслащивать; посыпать сахаром
Slovak:	sladiť
Slovenian:	sladkati
Spanish:	azucarar, endulzar
Swedish:	sockra
Turkish:	şeker koymak, *katmak

See also: sugar-cane, sugar-free, sugary, sugar-coated, sugar lump, sugar tongs

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Any of a class of crystalline carbohydrates that are water-soluble, have a characteristic sweet taste, and are universally present in animals and plants. They are characterized by the many OH groups they contain. Sugars are monosaccharides or small oligosaccharides, and include sucrose, glucose, and lactose.

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SUGAR
A simple lazy functional language designed at Westfield College, University of London, UK and used in Principles of Functional Programming, Hugh Glaser et al, P-H 1984.
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Sugar Land, TX (city, FIPS 70808) Location: 29.61878 N, 95.61618 W
Population (1990): 24529 (8579 housing units)
Area: 31.8 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 77478, 77479

Sugar Valley, GA Zip code(s): 30746

Sugar Tree, TN Zip code(s): 38380

Sugar Run, PA Zip code(s): 18846

Sugar Grove, WV Zip code(s): 26815

Sugar Grove, VA Zip code(s): 24375

Sugar Grove, PA (borough, FIPS 75032) Location: 41.98345 N, 79.33996 W
Population (1990): 604 (247 housing units)
Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 16350

Sugar Grove, OH (village, FIPS 75252) Location: 39.62668 N, 82.54715 W
Population (1990): 465 (165 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 43155

Sugar Grove, NC Zip code(s): 28679

Sugar Grove, IL (village, FIPS 73391) Location: 41.76960 N, 88.45885 W
Population (1990): 2005 (697 housing units)
Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60554

Sugar City, CO (town, FIPS 74815) Location: 38.23288 N, 103.66308 W
Population (1990): 252 (143 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 81076

Sugar Creek, MO (city, FIPS 71368) Location: 39.13813 N, 94.41117 W
Population (1990): 3982 (1748 housing units)
Area: 20.8 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 64054

Sugar City, ID (city, FIPS 78040) Location: 43.87241 N, 111.74653 W
Population (1990): 1275 (301 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 83448

Sugar Notch, PA (borough, FIPS 75072) Location: 41.19223 N, 75.93221 W
Population (1990): 1044 (455 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Sugar Mountain, NC (village, FIPS 65530) Location: 36.12423 N, 81.86332 W
Population (1990): 132 (1090 housing units)
Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Sugar Hill, GA (city, FIPS 74180) Location: 34.09927 N, 84.04000 W
Population (1990): 4557 (1750 housing units)
Area: 15.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Sugar Bush Knolls, OH (village, FIPS 75196) Location: 41.20485 N, 81.34673 W
Population (1990): 211 (69 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Sugar

In"vert\, a. (Chem.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

Invert sugar (Chem.), a variety of sugar, consisting of a mixture of dextrose and levulose, found naturally in fruits, and produced artificially by the inversion of cane sugar (sucrose); also, less properly, the grape sugar or dextrose obtained from starch. See Inversion, Dextrose, Levulose, and Sugar.

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Sugar

Jag"ger*y\, n. [Hind j[=a]gr[=i]. Cf. Sugar.] Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis). [Written also jagghery.]

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Sac"cha*rine\ (? or ?), a. [F. saccharin, fr. L. saccharon sugar, Gr. ?, ?, ?, Skr. [,c]arkara. Cf. Sugar.] Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.

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