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Sugar vs. Sweetener — What's the Difference?

Sugar vs. Sweetener — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sugar and Sweetener

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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.

Sweetener

Something that sweetens.

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.

Sweetener

(Informal) Something added as a further inducement or incentive.

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.
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Sweetener

Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.

Sugar

A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken.

Sweetener

(informal) Something given or added to added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, especially a bribe or kickback.

Sugar

(Slang) Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.

Sweetener

(slang) A shill bidder at an auction.

Sugar

To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.

Sweetener

One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

Sugar

To make less distasteful or more appealing.

Sweetener

Something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

Sugar

To form sugar.

Sweetener

Anything that serves as an enticement

Sugar

To form granules; granulate.

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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