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Definition: Sweetening |
SweeteningNoun1. Something added to foods to make them taste sweeter. 2. An improvement that makes something more agreeable. 3. The act of adding a sweetener to food. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweetening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Chemical process which removes the offensive smell of sulphur compounds, such as mercaptans in petroleum products, without necessarily lowering the sulphur content of the materials. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Using one or more of the following products in the preparation of aromatized wines, aromatized wine-based drinks and aromatised wine-product cocktails:semi-white sugar, white sugar, refined white sugar, dextrose, fructose, glucose syrup, liquid sugar, invert liquid sugar, invert sugar syrup, rectified concentrated grape must, concentrated grape must, fresh grape must, burned sugar, honey, carob syrup, or other natural carbohydrate substances having a similar effect to the above products. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SweeteningSynonyms: enhancement (n), sweetener (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: sweeting (chemical industry, mining). |
Crosswords: Sweetening |
| English words defined with "sweetening": beet sugar ♦ cane sugar, corn sugar ♦ Dulcification, Dulcoration ♦ Edulcoration ♦ hasty pudding ♦ saccharose, sucrose, sugar syrup, sugared, Sugaring, Sulphinide, sweet, sweetened. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sweetening": Cavendish Tobacco ♦ E420 i, E420i ♦ sorbitol. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sweetening": Sweeten. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sweetening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Sweetening" is used about 14 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 71.43% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sweetening": sauce sweetening ♦ sweetening agent ♦ Sweetening Agents ♦ sweetening treatment. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gas sweetening | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sweetening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ëmbëlsues, ëmbëlsim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смекчаване (abatement, attenuation, mitigation, modification, mollification, softening, tempering), подслаждане. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 变" (sweeten, sweetened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | soedning (sugaring), sødning, afsvovling (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zoeten (polish), verzoeting, ontharding (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), aanzoeten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | merkaptaanien hapetus (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), makeutus (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), makeuttaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traitement adoucissant (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), raffinage des essences consistant en éliminer les composés sulfurés,ou mercaptans,indésirables par leur odeur ou leur corrosivité (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), adoucissement, édulcoration, édulcorant (sweetener). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Suesssen, Süssung, Süßungsverfahren (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), Süßungsbehandlung (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλύκανση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתוק (lovely, mellow, pleasant, sweet), "מתק" (clemency, mitigation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megédesítés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trattamento di addolcimento (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), edulcorazione, addolcimenti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 糖 (sweetened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かとう (base, excessive, exorbitant, flexible, fructose, fruit sugar, inferior, light case of smallpox, low grade, lower class, sweetened, vulgar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooraghey (freshen, purify, refection, refresh, refreshing, sweeten), milljaghey (disarm, disarming, sweeten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeteningsway suavização (mitigation, mollification), tratamento para eliminar os compostos de enxofre (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), tratamento adoçante (sweetening treatment, sweeting, sweeting treatment), purificação (abstersion, catharsis, cleaning, comb-out, deputation, expurgation, lustration, purgation, purification, refinement, renovation), edulcuração,adoçamento, edulcoração, amenização. (various references) то, что придает сладость, подслащивание (sugaring). (various references) zaslađivanje. (various references) edulcoración. (various references) sötande. (various references) tatlandırıcı (sweetener). (various references) освіження, наповнення пахощами, підсолоджування. (various references) sự l m cho ngọt, chất pha cho ngọt sự l m cho thơm tho sự l m cho dịu d ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweetening": sweetenings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sweetening": oversweetening, presweetening. (additional references) | |
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"Sweetening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shebeening. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweetening" (pronounced swē"tuning or swē"tning) |
| 5 | -t u n i ng | battening, brightening, disheartening, enlightening, fattening, flattening, frightening, heartening, heightening, lightening, shortening, straightening, threatening, tightening, whitening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disillusioning, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, freshening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, strengthening, summoning, thickening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 4 | -t n i ng | lightning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-n-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: entwines, sweeting, tweenies, weeniest, wenniest. | |
-3 letters: engines, entwine, intense, nesting, stewing, sweeten, sweetie, tennies, tensing, twinges, weenies, weening, weeting, westing. | |
-4 letters: engine, ensign, etwees, genets, genies, gentes, ingest, newest, newies, newsie, seeing, sennet, sennit, sewing, signee, signet, swinge, teeing, tennis, tewing, tinges, twines, twinge, weenie, wisent. | |
-5 letters: egest, etwee, geese, geest, genes, genet, genie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: sweetenings. | |
+2 letters: wintergreens. | |
+3 letters: presweetening. | |
+4 letters: oversweetening. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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