(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.
Sweetie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(2) The society has taken another step to protect the pandas' value to the zoo by trademarking their popular, anglicised names, Sunshine and Sweetie, to prevent pirate merchandising.
(3) And when Tian Tian (Sweetie) is seated and eating, she seems very human in her movements.
(4) "[Then] he goes along and says, 'I've done a great deal for Europe, I've wrecked the nuclear deterrent, the Americans will be even more angry with the small contribution we make to Nato and now I would like these special sweeties kept for me.'
(5) On Apple's App Store it was Candy Crush Saga , the sweetie-themed match-three puzzle game that has stuck to the upper reaches of the top-grossing chart since its release in November 2012.
(6) Grandparents have long been treasured for their contribution to pocket money and the sweetie jar – but the extent of the reliance on their generosity has been revealed in a new report.
(7) Mandelson could better understand that the New Labour project, like sweeties at the check-out counter, was a catchy little number for a while but insufficiently nourishing or robust in ideas to feed the political appetite for very long.
(8) Britain, too, has stepped back from support so unequivocal that Clare Short, then Labour's international development secretary, called Kagame "a sweetie" and Tony Blair established a foundation to help the man he calls a "visionary leader" to govern.
(9) Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang (Sunshine) will fly out from Chengdu on Sunday on a jet emblazoned with a panda portrait.
(10) 12.46am BST Ann Romney was asked what advice she gave her husband to prepare for tonight's debate, and she said she told Mitt: You know what sweetie, you had five boys.
(11) The guns are more pumped, the giggle less nervous, but Hoult is still a genuine sweetie.
(12) A BBC spokesperson said: "Including Sweetie as one for the annual headline makers was a light-hearted addition to the list, and this isn't the first time it has featured a non-human.
(13) "Do they genuinely believe that the crofters will capitulate if a big enough financial sweetie is dangled in front of them?
(14) A German police officer told me, 'You're crazy sweetie, you can't do that, you cannot prohibit men from buying sex, it's totally impossible.'
(15) Sweetie and Sunlight were born in 2003 and lived at the Ya'an reserve in Chengdu, China.
(16) Thousands of women tweeted that this was "sexist" because Sweetie hadn't achieved anything significant and, anyway, pandas weren't women.
(17) A fairly badly drawn stick-puppet girl and gorilla throw each other a chocolate sweetie covered in hundreds and thousands.
(18) Impulsivity is a characteristic of sweety bulimics, dysphoria and affective lability characterise salty ones.
(19) However much you rationally accept that TV channels and sweetie manufacturers are profit-driven entities, it's still tough to break the emotional conviction that they couldn't possibly be invested in anything that might cause harm to your child.
(20) A post-1994 outpouring of western guilt has, many argue, allowed Kagame to escape criticism for running an authoritarian regime that ruthlessly crushes dissent, including the alleged assassination of opponents abroad .Clinton has described him "one of the greatest leaders of our time", Tony Blair called him a "visionary leader" and former international development secretary Clare Short infamously said of him: "Such a sweetie."