Diabetes vs. Sugar — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Diabetes and Sugar
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Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly known as just diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased appetite.
Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Table sugar, granulated sugar, or regular sugar, refers to sucrose, a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose.
Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes.
Sugar
A sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugarcane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste. Also called table sugar.
Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes.
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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.
Diabetes
Gestational diabetes. In all subsenses also called diabetes mellitus.
Sugar
A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken.
Diabetes
See diabetes insipidus.
Sugar
(Slang) Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.
Sugar
To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.
Diabetes
Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
Sugar
To make less distasteful or more appealing.
Diabetes
Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin.
Sugar
To form sugar.
Diabetes
Any of several diseases which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine; when used without qualification, the term usually refers to diabetes mellitus. The most common form is diabetes mellitus, in which the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, and the condition if untreated is generally fatal.
Sugar
To form granules; granulate.
Diabetes
Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst
Sugar
To make sugar or syrup from sugar maple sap. Often used with off.
Sugar
(uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
Sugar
(countable) A specific variety of sugar.
Sugar
Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
Sugar
(countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
Sugar
(countable) A term of endearment.
I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
Sugar
A kiss.
Sugar
Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
Sugar
Diabetes.
Sugar
(dated) 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.
Sugar
Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
Sugar
Heroin.
Sugar
Money.
Sugar
(programming) syntactic sugar.
Sugar
(transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
John heavily sugars his coffee.
Sugar
(transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
Sugar
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.
Sugar
(entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
Sugar
To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
Sugar
(transitive) To compliment (a person).
Sugar
To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
Sugar
(minced oath) Used in place of shit!
Oh, sugar!
Sugar
A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
Sugar
By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
Sugar
Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf?
Sugar
In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; - with the preposition off.
Sugar
To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
Sugar
To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
With devotion's visageAnd pious action we do sugar o'erThe devil himself.
Sugar
A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
Sugar
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
Sugar
Informal terms for money
Sugar
Sweeten with sugar;
Sugar your tea
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