sugar
part of speech
noun (sugar; sugars in science); verb (sugar — to add sugar)
meaning for a pupil
1) Sugar is a sweet food made into grains, white or brown, used in cakes and drinks; it comes from sugar cane or sugar beet. tree →
2) Sugars are sweet substances in food, like those in fruit and milk. tree →
3) «Sugar» can be a fond name for someone, like «honey». tree →
sense in the lessons
an amount in a recipe, measured in cups, spoons or pounds; in health lessons, too much sugar harms teeth; phrases «a spoonful of sugar», «sugar-free», «icing sugar», «sugar cane»
examples
- The recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar. tree →
- She already put in 1 cup. tree →
- How many more cups of sugar does she need? tree →
- He bought 4 pounds of sugar. tree →
- Do you take sugar in your tea? tree →
- Too much sugar is bad for your teeth. tree →
- Sugar dissolves in hot water. tree →
- This drink is sugar-free. tree →
- Sugar cane grows in hot places. tree →
- Sprinkle icing sugar on the cake. tree →
note
The thing measured; unit is cups or pounds. Trap: flour and sugar in the same recipe; read which one the question asks. «Sugar» is uncountable: «some sugar», «two spoons of sugar». It starts with an «sh» sound.
In the corpora
- It can drop the sugar from a cookie recipe.
- Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant.
- Maple syrup comes from the sugary sap of the sugar maple tree in Canada and the USA.
- Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.
- Leaves use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide from the air into sugar for food; this is called photosynthesis.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sugar» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.