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# sugar

«sugar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sweet food made into grains, white or brown, used in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#m1)

2) Sugars are sweet substances in food, like those in fruit and milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#m2)

3) «Sugar» can be a fond name for someone, like «honey». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x1)
- She already put in 1 cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x2)
- How many more cups of sugar does she need? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x3)
- He bought 4 pounds of sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x4)
- Do you take sugar in your tea? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x5)
- Too much sugar is bad for your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x6)
- Sugar dissolves in hot water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x7)
- This drink is sugar-free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x8)
- Sugar cane grows in hot places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x9)
- Sprinkle icing sugar on the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/6/)
- [Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/7/)
- [Maple syrup comes from the sugary sap of the sugar maple tree in Canada and the USA.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/17/)
- [Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/14/)
- [Leaves use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide from the air into sugar for food; this is called photosynthesis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sugar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sugar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.