sugar vs sweetening
sweetening vs sugarsugar and sweetening both are nouns.
sugar is a verb but sweetening is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sugar | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| sweetening | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
sweetening is a hypernym of
sugar; that is, sweetening is a
word with a broader meaning than sugar:
- sugar: a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
- sweetening: something added to foods to make them taste sweeter
Other hypernyms of sugar include
sweetener.
| sugar (noun) | sweetening (noun) |
|---|---|
| a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative | the act of adding a sweetener to food |
| informal terms for money | an improvement that makes something more agreeable |
| 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 | something added to foods to make them taste sweeter |
| sugar (verb) | sweetening (verb) |
|---|---|
| sweeten with sugar |
Words related to "sugar"
- beet sugar
- boodle
- bread
- brown sugar
- cabbage
- cane sugar
- caramel
- caramelized sugar
- carbohydrate
- clams
- corn sugar
- deoxyribose
- dinero
- dough
- dulcify
- dulcorate
- edulcorate
- gelt
- granulated sugar
- invert sugar
- jaggary
- jaggery
- jagghery
- kale
- lettuce
- loaf sugar
- lolly
- loot
- lucre
- lump sugar
- macromolecule
- maple sugar
- money
- monosaccharide
- monosaccharose
- moolah
- oligosaccharide
- pelf
- polyose
- polysaccharide
- refined sugar
- ribose
- rock sugar
- saccharide
- saccharify
- scratch
- shekels
- simoleons
- simple sugar
- sugar loaf
- sugarloaf
- supermolecule
- sweeten
- sweetener
- sweetening
- wampum
- wood sugar
- xylose
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