(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.
Sweetened
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sweeten
Example Sentences:
(1) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(2) the colours: Allura red AC, erythrosine, canthaxanthin and the caramels; three anti-oxidants: BHA, BHT and the gallates; the sweeteners: polyols, aspartame, saccharin and cyclamates.
(3) Alternative sweeteners are widely advocated and used.
(4) Stevioside and rebaudioside A, two intense natural sweeteners, that are constituents of the South American plant Stevia rebaudiana, were tested for cariogenicity in albino Sprague-Dawley rats.
(5) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
(6) Although high-intensity sweeteners are widely used to decrease the energy density of foods, little is known about how this affects hunger and food intake.
(7) Pfizer said on Monday it hoped its sweetened offer for AstraZeneca, which was made on Friday, would help the British drugmaker "engage with Pfizer and enter into discussions relating to a possible combination of the two companies".
(8) Following an initial report of the presence of traces of cyclohexylamine in the urines of subjects given cyclamate, it was shown that chronic administration of the sweetener caused the induction of extensive metabolism.
(9) In the other, each serving of beverage provided 600 mg APM, a dose equivalent to the amount provided by 36 oz of APM-sweetened diet beverage.
(10) At present, the sweetening carbohydrates have a share of about 49% of the total-carbohydrate-consumption, from which 24% is sugar in its conventional form; a further 3% comes from fruits and vegetables; 5% of the carbohydrates are lactose, 15.5% are monosaccharides, from which 12% are derived from vegetable foodstuffs and honey.
(11) Appropriate sweeteners, flavoring agents, preservatives, humectants, and pH adjusters were then added.
(12) The compromise was sweetened with further funds: on Monday Democrats held out the prospect of a further $50bn in loan guarantees under the climate change bill making its way through Congress.
(13) Brandishing cash sweeteners so squarely directed at different age groups opens another fracture along generational lines.
(14) When the sweetened solutions were switched, obese sucrose rats lost weight during the next 8 weeks while rats previously on NNS gained weight rapidly.
(15) In this paper, we demonstrate that high concentrations (1-4 M) of neutral salts greatly enhance the thermolysin activity in both hydrolysis and synthesis of N-carbobenzoxy-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester (ZAPM), a precursor of a peptide sweetener, aspartame, in which the L-aspartyl residue is the P1 residue.
(16) Tea swathed in frothed milk sweetened to within an inch of its long, UHT life.
(17) The mean values for zinc bioavailability to rats were as follows: sweetened condensed milk = 66%; human breast milk 59.2%, processed cow's milk = 43.7 to 50.9%; unprocessed (raw) cow's milk = 42%; nonfat dry milk = 41.2%, and infant formulas = 26.8 to 39.5%.
(18) In addition, students who lived in Greek housing were found to skip meals less frequently than other students, and men were found to consume significantly more beer, sugar-sweetened soft drinks, meat, and white bread than women students.
(19) There was no interaction between fluoride and other sweetening agents that affected the incidence of caries.
(20) These sweeteners increased significantly the salivary flow rate in comparison to the unsweetened gum base.