(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.
Sweetheart
Definition:
(n.) A lover of mistress.
Example Sentences:
(1) The European commission is investigating “sweetheart” tax deals between the Irish state and Apple, and last month Brussels provisionally found that the iPhone maker’s tax arrangements in Ireland were so generous as to amount to state aid .
(2) The son of a civil engineer, who lives in a rented apartment in a run-down district of Athens with his high-school sweetheart and two young children, Tsipras belongs to a generation untainted by power.
(3) Earlier this year, HMRC made a sweetheart deal with Google enabling the company to settle its 10-year tax liabilities with a payment of £130m, an effective rate of less than 3%.
(4) As a candidate he was accused of palling around with terrorists, cutting a sweetheart deal for his home, and following the lead of an anti-American preacher.
(5) I’m not sure what my 14–year–old, Catholic schoolgirl self would have thought if she’d been given a preview of the past week’s news, and the role her teenage sweetheart played in making it happen.
(6) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(7) Moreover, many non-doms prefer not to advertise they qualify for such sweetheart deals with HMRC.
(8) It's the kind of sweetheart deal you'd love to make with your own bank.
(9) So, sweetheart, thank you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hiddleston , meanwhile, went full humanitarian, closing with a story about a recent trip to South Sudan with the UN Children’s Fund and dedicating his prize to aid workers everywhere.
(10) The prime minister now has serious questions to answer after she stood at the despatch box and called suggestions of a sweetheart deal ‘alternative facts’,” he said.
(11) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
(12) Demirtaş’s wife Basak – his childhood sweetheart, also from a poor family – is a teacher, and to judge from the glossy portraits that a mass-circulation newspaper printed last year of the couple with their two daughters, there is little to distinguish this handsome, modern, white-toothed family from many around the world.
(13) "Oh my sweetheart one, I love you so much more and more.
(14) But movement doesn't mean childhood sweethearts are given the heave-ho as the young and upwardly mobile make their ways to cosmopolitan city centres or exotic destinations.
(15) Patriotic family man Mick is described as a "bloke's bloke" who is also a big softie and he and Linda were childhood sweethearts.
(16) The Labour leader pointed to what he described as a gulf between what the Tories expect from the wealthiest and from ordinary taxpayers, as he highlighted what have been labelled sweetheart tax deals .
(17) As she points out, Dave Hartnett, the former head of Revenue and Customs, eventually resigned following the revelation that he had agreed to a sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs (the bank was excused interest charges amounting to some £10m).
(18) It’s another sweetheart deal for the owner.” Michnuk points toward Corktown businesses within eyeshot.
(19) Not back to New York where Meredith was doing her best to keep him out of trouble (Jim Hobart: “Is he on a bender, sweetheart?”).
(20) Kacey Musgraves tours the UK in October New sweethearts of the rodeo: the female country stars determined to break the mould MIRANDA LAMBERT It's arguable that the seeds for country's current crop of straight-shooting radical female voices were first planted in the unlikely environment of Nashville Star .