{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "swit" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sweet.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sweet.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English swete, from Old English swēte (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).\nCognate and synonymous with Scots sweit (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German Low German sööt (“sweet”), German süß (“sweet”), Danish sød (“sweet”), Swedish söt (“sweet”), Norwegian søt (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet”), Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús). Doublet of suave." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.\na sweet apple" }, { "mean": "Having a taste of sugar.\n2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, \"The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel\":\nA few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for \"sour.\" Sugars get received as \"sweet.\" Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades." }, { "mean": "(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.\nSweet wines are better dessert wines." }, { "mean": "Not having a salty taste.\nsweet butter" }, { "mean": "Having a pleasant smell.\na sweet scent\n1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Reaper and the Flowers”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, →OCLC, page 8:Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, / I will give them all back again." }, { "mean": "Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.\nsweet milk" }, { "mean": "Having a pleasant sound.\na sweet tune\n1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Ticknor and Fields, page 135:\na voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful" }, { "mean": "Having a pleasing disposition.\na sweet child\nYou're so sweet!\n2017 April 13, Mitchy Collins, Samantha Derosa, and Christian Medice, “Broken”, in Finding It Hard to Smile‎, performed by Lovelytheband:There's something tragic, but almost pure / Think I could love you, but I'm not sure / There's something wholesome, there's something sweet / Tucked in your eyes that I'd love to meet" }, { "mean": "Having a helpful disposition.\nIt was sweet of him to help out." }, { "mean": "(mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.\nsweet gas\nsweet soil\nsweet crude oil" }, { "mean": "(informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.\nThe new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.\n1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.\n14 November 2014, Steven Haliday, Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero\nGORDON Strachan enjoyed the sweetest of his 16 matches in charge of Scotland so far as his team enhanced their prospects of Euro 2016 qualification with a crucial and deserved victory over Republic of Ireland." }, { "mean": "(slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.\n2012, John Hoskison, Inside: One Man's Experience of Prison:\"Visit in two days though,\" said Tommo. \"Hang in there mate, got a joey coming, we'll be sweet then.\"" }, { "mean": "(informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.\nThe attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight." }, { "mean": "Fresh; not salt or brackish.\nsweet water\n1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History, in The Works of Francis Bacon (1826), page 66\nThe white of an egg, or blood mingled with salt water, doth gather the saltness and maketh the water sweeter; this may be by adhesion.\n1821, Robert Thomas, The modern practice of physic, page 713:Nothing has been found so effectual for preserving water sweet at sea, during long voyages, as charring the insides of the casks well before they are filled." }, { "mean": "(of soil, UK, dated) Alkaline." }, { "mean": "Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.\na sweet face\na sweet colour or complexion\n1667, John Milton, Paradise lost (source), Samuel Simmons, page 278:\nSweet interchange / Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains." }, { "mean": "An intensifier.\n2014, Rexanne Becnel, Leaving L.A., page 12:For someone who hadn't seen her only sister in over twenty years, Alice sure took her sweet time." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Used as a positive response to good news or information.\nThey're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!" } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "In a sweet manner.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :\"and, sweet my child, let them be men of good repute and carriage.\"(and, my child, allow them sweetly to be men with good reputations and conduct)" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar." }, { "mean": "(countable, Britain) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy." }, { "mean": "(countable, Britain) A food eaten for dessert.\nCan we see the sweet menu, please?" }, { "mean": "Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection.\n1611, Ben Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify |act=I to V):\nWherefore frowns my sweet?\n1936 Aug., Ernest Hemingway, \"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber\", Cosmopolitan:\n\"You think that I'll take anything.\"\"I know you will, sweet...\"\"There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be.\"\"Well, there is now,\" she said sweetly.\nGood evening, my sweet." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.\n1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:a wilderness of sweets" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.\n1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2:\nFear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete or poetic) To sweeten.\n1825, John Breckinridge & C.R. Harrison, Western Luminary ... - Volume 1, page 318:In size and shape it resembles the heart of a calf, and the interior substance is similar to thick cream, sweeted with fine sugar.\n1890, The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic - Volume 63, page 331:It might also be given in the form of a mixture — the drug being insoluble in a watery menstruum — suspended by the aid of mucilage and sweeted by any of the various flavoring syrups.\n1997, Morag Styles, From the Garden to the Street, →ISBN:Bring me now where the warm wind blows, where the grasses sigh, where the sweet-tongued blossom flowers; where the shower, fan soft like a fishermans net thrown through the sweeted air.\n2012, Keith Ringkamp, PATIENCE WORTH: A Balm for Every Ill, →ISBN, page 34:A sour maketh sweets two-fold sweeted." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "인터젝션", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }