What's the difference between darling and sweet?

Darling


Definition:

  • (n.) One dearly beloved; a favorite.
  • (a.) Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Turner was at a meeting last month where the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, clinched an agreement with the five biggest UK banks – Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered – to accept the G20 principles.
  • (2) Banda, 64, began her term as a darling of the west, inheriting the presidency after the unexpected death of her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, in 2012.
  • (3) At $226, Netflix's share price is up 220% in the last year, 172% in the last six months, once again enjoying internet darling status.
  • (4) Darling, one of the Cabinet's Eeyores, took a more cautious view but even he has been surprised by the length, depth and breadth of the crisis.
  • (5) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
  • (6) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
  • (7) It is now a little more than five years since Alistair Darling bailed out RBS.
  • (8) In a sign of Labour's need to avoid tension with business, Darling was careful to stress he was not criticising the signatories but said: "I wonder if one of their finance directors came to them and said 'look, we have this wonderful idea, and we are going to pay with it by savings we have not yet identified and by calculations we cannot verify', they would say 'that is complete nonsense'."
  • (9) A green investment bank or fund is expected to be unveiled in Alastair Darling's budget tomorrow.
  • (10) The government is to sell off water allocations to farmers who operate alongside the Murray-Darling river system for the first time since a deal that aims to end two decades of arguments on how to manage the resource.
  • (11) Osborne and Alistair Darling would be daft to rule out a 20% VAT band; don't expect them to admit as much this side of polling day.
  • (12) In the pre-budget report, Darling announced £20bn in tax cuts and increased spending, in an attempt to stop the UK economy falling off a cliff.
  • (13) His electorate includes the city of Toowoomba and parts of the Darling Downs farming region.
  • (14) Once a stock market darling, the company issued two profit warnings in six months, prompting fears that its stellar growth had peaked.
  • (15) This would mean that everyone earning under £35,000 would be protected from the planned rise in national insurance announced by Darling in the budget.
  • (16) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
  • (17) But the theory that this meant Salmond's Scottish National party government had agreed to free Megrahi was untenable, Darling said.
  • (18) Darling told an event in London today that the Wall Street firm had failed to understand that the public's attitude to bonuses had changed dramatically after its admission last week that it was on track to pay out record bonuses from an estimated $22bn (about £13bn) bonus pool.
  • (19) Now it is up to 50% and Darling admitted in his budget speech that it would rise to 80% over the next few years.
  • (20) It also found high levels of negativity on the issue of independence towards Alistair Darling, the Better Together chairman and former Labour chancellor, and David Cameron, the prime minister.

Sweet


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
  • (superl.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
  • (superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
  • (superl.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
  • (n.) That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
  • (n.) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
  • (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
  • (n.) That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
  • (n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
  • (adv.) Sweetly.
  • (v. t.) To sweeten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (2) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
  • (3) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
  • (4) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
  • (5) The halfwidth of the fluorescence emission band increases in parallel with the loss of sweetness.
  • (6) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (7) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
  • (8) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
  • (9) A case of Sweet's syndrome developed as a presenting feature of multiple myeloma.
  • (10) Though the thought of a Panama team listening to the USA team huddle coyly sharing their secrets is a rather sweet thought.
  • (11) The sweetness of monellin under these two types of denaturing conditions, temperature and pH, can be predicted by the fluorescence emission spectrum of the protein.
  • (12) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
  • (13) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
  • (14) Sweet flavours were often correctly identified, with the exception of egg nog, but savoury flavours were recognised less frequently.
  • (15) Thus, the B center of the Shallenberger A-H,B theory of sweetness is best regarded as being -SO3- rather than -SO2- for sulfamates.
  • (16) in Shibuya-ku goes a little easier on the sugary sweet styles.
  • (17) Two subjects with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in whom pustular Sweet's syndrome was diagnosed are reported.
  • (18) In this paper, the sweetness receptor is refined with use of the shapes of 3-anilino-2-styryl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (sweet) and of 3-anilino-2-phenyl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (tasteless), two large and almost completely rigid tastants.
  • (19) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
  • (20) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.