Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thick, sweet, sticky liquid, consisting of a sugar base, natural or artificial flavorings, and water.
- n. The juice of a fruit or plant boiled with sugar until thick and sticky.
- n. A concentrated solution of sugar in water, often used as a vehicle for medicine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In medicine, a solution of sugar in water, made according to an officinal formula, whether simple, flavored, or medicated with some special therapeutic or compound.
- n. The uncrystallizable fluid finally separated from crystallized sugar in the refining process, either by the draining of sugar in loaves, or by being forcibly ejected by the centrifugal apparatus in preparing moist sugar. This is the ordinary or “golden syrup” of grocers; but in the sugar-manufacture the term syrup is applied to all strong saccharine solutions which contain sugar in a condition capable of being crystallized out, the ultimate uncrystallizable fluid being distinguished as molasses or treacle.
- To sweeten with syrup; cover or mix with a syrup.
- n. In cookery, a boiled solution of sugar and water in which fruits are often cooked.
Wiktionary
- n. Any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content. Also any viscous liquid.
- n. A wig.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thick sweet sticky liquid
Etymologies
- Old French sirop, from Arabic شراب (šarāb, "beverage"), from شرب (šáriba, "to drink"). Related to sorbet, sherbet. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siropus, from Arabic šarāb, from šariba, to drink; see śrb in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The picture isn't great (looks like the syrup is all over the place) but Nena and her parents loved the course.”
“Often, maple syrup is stored in the fridge, so consider this a quick reminder to take it out before you start to bake!”
“Maple syrup is used as a sweetener for these blondies, along with some sugar, and gives the bars a rich, deep sweetness.”
“Then a prayer that the maple syrup is subtle enough not to kill it.”
Buttermilk fried chicken waffles – impossible wine pairing? | Dr Vino's wine blog
“The colours can seem vulgar, the sugar content too high for uninitiated palates – just two little balls of my favourite, gulab jamun (a fried sweet of milky dough bathed in syrup) can be as much as 380 calories.”
“In a medium saucepan, boil the sugar and water together until a syrup is formed.”
“Jew School » Blog Archive » High fructose corn syrup is for the goyim Says:”
“And another reason for so much high frutcose corn syrup is not just the sugar tariff but corn subsidies that make it very cheap to load up on the stuff.”
Brad DeLong's Health Care Prescription, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The reason the US has such a high use of corn syrup is that their Corn Farmers want protection against cheap import of sugar.”
High-Fructose Corn Syrup “Prompts More Weight Gain” Than Sugar | Lifehacker Australia
“Bowl of peach chunks in syrup: The syrup overwhelmed the peachy goodness.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘syrup’.
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Of Arabic Origin
Arabic loanwords in English are words acquired directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance lan...
admiral, adobe, albatross, alchemy, alcohol, alcove, alembic, alfalfa, algebra, algorism, algorithm, alidade and 181 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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minneapolitan's Words
hissyfit, fussbudget, aghast, lament, trichinellosis, tranche, decadent, aspersion, pejorative, aniline, galoshes, accede and 200 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for syrup.
sionnach Here in my local whatnot, the preferred pronunciation of whatnot is whaughtnought, while a majority of people say ot, when they really ought to say ought.
Go figger!
Meanwhile, the states of Montana and Wyoming continue to be sparsely populated. Apr 11, 2008
asativum The problem is that the maps just count responses. So a ton of respondents, it appears, come from the Northeast; ergo, every pronunciation appears concentrated in the Northeast.
What they ought to map, by color, is the relative proportion of responses received so far from a given region (state, city, whatnot).
So: Points for neat research idea, marked down for information-poor illustration of results. Apr 11, 2008
Prolagus Based on the map, people in Nevada don't like syrup. Apr 11, 2008
seanahan From personal experience, I find the results highly suspect. Apr 11, 2008
pterodactyl See this map for American pronunciation. Apr 10, 2008