Sugar vs. Sweetener — What's the Difference?

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.

Something that sweetens.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

(slang) A shill bidder at an auction.

To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.

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

To make less distasteful or more appealing.

Something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

To form sugar.

Anything that serves as an enticement

To form granules; granulate.

To make sugar or syrup from sugar maple sap. Often used with off.

(uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.

(countable) A specific variety of sugar.

Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.

(countable) A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.

(countable) A term of endearment.

A kiss.

Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

Diabetes.

(dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.

Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

Heroin.

Money.

(programming) syntactic sugar.

(transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

(transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

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.

(entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

(transitive) To compliment (a person).

To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

(minced oath) Used in place of shit!

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.

By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.

Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

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.

To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.

To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.

A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative

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

Informal terms for money

Sweeten with sugar;