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"SUGARS" is a plural of: sugar. |
Date "SUGARS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | The principal substances in solution in must which give rise to alcohol when fermented by yeast. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Screenplays | Two sugars in mine. (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) | |
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![]() | Tomorrow's tomatoes might have less water and more of the compounds called solids that processors condense at the factory. The concentrate, rich in fiber and natural sugars, becomes the starting point for tomato paste and most of the other tomato-based foods at your supermarket. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | ![]() | Production. Industrial alcohol. These 40,000 gallon tanks in the fermenting room of a converted whiskey distillery produce industrial alcohol by the action of yeast upon cooked grain whose starches have been changed to sugars by the enzyme action of malt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | The sugars that cause gas are raffinose, lactose, fructose, and sorbitol. (references) | |
These formulas are processed proteins (basically sugars and amino acids). (references) | ||
The most important carbohydrates are the starches, sugars, celluloses, and gums. (references) | ||
Trade | Italy | Specific EU regulations exist for cocoa and chocolate products, sugars, fruit juices, fruit jams and jellies, milk and casein products. (references) |
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| "SUGARS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.68% of the time. "SUGARS" is used about 152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.68% | 150 | 25,701 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.32% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| India | Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd. |
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Expressions using "SUGARS": Adenosine Diphosphate Sugars ♦ Guanosine Diphosphate Sugars ♦ Polyisoprenyl Phosphate Sugars ♦ reducing sugars. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SUGARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sukker (sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | suikers. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sokeri (sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sucres, polyalcools-aldéhydes, aldoses ou polyalcools. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verzuckert, überzuckert. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταφυλοσάκχαρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zuccheri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugarssay açúcares. (various references) zaharuri. (various references) azúcares. (various references) socker (sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "SUGARS": desugars, nonsugars. (additional references) | |
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"SUGARS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sagara, saggars, sangars, Segar, Segarra, Segars, Shuaghra, shugar, Shugart, sigar, suga, sugara, sugarz, sugers, Sugiarto, Sungard, Ughars, Zegarra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SUGARS" (pronounced shuh"gerz) |
| 3 | -g er z | Angers, augers, augurs, beggars, bootleggers, braggers, buggers, burgers, carpetbaggers, catalogers, cheeseburgers, chiggers, Cougars, daggers, diggers, Eggers, fingers, forefingers, gangbangers, hamburgers, jaegers, Jaggers, joggers, leaguers, lingers, loggers, lugers, mongers, muggers, niggers, rigors, sandbaggers, sluggers, staggers, tigers, triggers, vinegars, Youngers. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: argus, gaurs, gauss, grass, guars, sugar, suras. | |
-2 letters: gars, gaur, guar, rags, ruga, rugs, sags, sura, ursa. | |
-3 letters: ars, ass, gar, gas, rag, ras, rug, sag, sau. | |
-4 letters: ag, ar, as, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: arguses, rugosas, saugers. | |
+2 letters: assuring, cutgrass, desugars, dustrags, graduses, guisards, nutgrass, saguaros, sastruga, sastrugi, sevrugas. | |
+3 letters: asparagus, assurgent, barguests, bluegrass, degausser, gastrulas, grampuses, grossular, hourglass, nonsugars, osnaburgs, sagebrush, sargassum, singulars, sluggards, spearguns, spurgalls, stegosaur, subgrades, subgraphs, suffrages, sugariest, sugarless. | |
+4 letters: bunchgrass, choraguses, cuirassing, cutgrasses, degaussers, granuloses, granulosis, grossulars, groundmass, grubstakes, guitarists, noseguards, nutgrasses, pasturages, reassuming, reassuring, roughcasts, safeguards, sandgrouse, sargassums, scrummages, signatures, slaughters, sparkplugs, stegosaurs, subrogates, suffragans, suffragist, sugarcanes, sugarcoats, sugarhouse, sugarplums, surceasing, surcharges, surfacings, surpassing, surplusage, surrogates, vulgarises, vulgarisms. | |
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