Word Type
Sugar can be a verb, an interjection or a noun.
sugar used as a verb:
- To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
"John heavily sugars his coffee." - To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
"She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
sugar used as an interjection:
- Used in place of shit!
"Oh, sugar!"
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
sugar used as a noun:
- Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- When used to sweeten drink, an amount of such crystalline sucrose approximately equal to five grams or one teaspoon.
"He usually has his coffee white with one sugar." - Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- A generic term for sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc.
- A term of endearment.
"I'll be with you in a moment, sugar." - A kiss.
- Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
"I think John has a little bit of sugar in him." - Diabetes.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is sugar?
- Verb usage: John heavily sugars his coffee.
- Verb usage: She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
- Interjection usage: Oh, sugar!
- Noun usage: He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
- Noun usage: I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
- Noun usage: I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of sugar are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of sugar, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
