Definitions for sweetening
ˈswit n ɪŋ, ˈswit nɪŋsweet·en·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sweetening, sweetenernoun

   something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

2. enhancement, sweeteningnoun

   an improvement that makes something more agreeable

3. sweeteningnoun

   the act of adding a sweetener to food

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sweeteningnoun

   See long sweetening and short sweetening.

2. sweeteningnoun

   A sweetener.

   Honey is the oldest of sweetenings.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sweetening

   Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin and aspartame. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself. The perceived intensity of sugars and high-potency sweeteners, such as Aspartame and Neohesperidin Dihydrochalcone, are heritable, with gene effect accounting for approximately 30% of the variation.The chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century. One theoretical model of sweetness is the multipoint attachment theory, which involves multiple binding sites between a sweetness receptor and a sweet substance. Studies indicate that responsiveness to sugars and sweetness has very ancient evolutionary beginnings, being manifest as chemotaxis even in motile bacteria such as E. coli. Newborn human infants also demonstrate preferences for high sugar concentrations and prefer solutions that are sweeter than lactose, the sugar found in breast milk. Sweetness appears to have the highest taste recognition threshold, being detectable at around 1 part in 200 of sucrose in solution. By comparison, bitterness appears to have the lowest detection threshold, at about 1 part in 2 million for quinine in solution. In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity. The high sweetness detection threshold and low bitterness detection threshold would have predisposed our primate ancestors to seek out sweet-tasting (and energy-dense) foods and avoid bitter-tasting foods. Even amongst leaf-eating primates, there is a tendency to prefer immature leaves, which tend to be higher in protein and lower in fibre and poisons than mature leaves. The 'sweet tooth' thus has an ancient heritage, and while food processing has changed consumption patterns, human physiology remains largely unchanged.

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1. sweetening

   Sweetening is the process of adding a substance, typically sugar or a sugar substitute, to food, drinks, or other products to make them taste sweet. It can also refer to improving the quality, value, or attractiveness of something. In industrial processes, particularly in oil refining, sweetening refers to the process of removing sulfur and other impurities from crude oil and its derivatives.

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1. Sweetening

   of Sweeten

2. Sweeteningnoun

   the act of making sweet

3. Sweeteningnoun

   that which sweetens

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1. Sweetening

   In sound design sweetening refers to "juicing up" the video portion of a film, play, computer game software or any other multimedia project. Its origin may have been old-time radio, which produced visual detail with sound effects such as people walking, horses galloping, doors opening and closing, gun shots, "body slams," etc. In the case of a music performance or recording, sweetening may refer to the process of adding instruments in post-production such as those found on The Sounds of Silence by folk troubadours Simon and Garfunkel. The original acoustic version of the song features just their vocals with one guitar. Producers at Columbia Records, however, felt that it needed a little spicing up to be a commercial hit, and so without the consent of the artists, they added drums, electric bass and electric guitar. In television sweetening refers to the use of a laugh track in addition to a live studio audience. The laugh track is used to "enhance" the laughter for television audiences, sometimes in cases where a joke or scene intended to be funny does not draw the expected response, and sometimes to avoid awkward sound edits when a scene is shortened or more than one take is used in editing. Sweetening has been used in a number of television series, from older shows like Happy Days, Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, to newer sitcoms Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. The act of sweetening is demonstrated in the Woody Allen film Annie Hall when Alvy Singer visits his friend Rob, played by Tony Roberts, in Los Angeles. At one point, Rob has the engineer add laughter to cover voiced disapproval from the audience. Some shows used the canned laughter technique very obviously rather than the "in-between" technique described as a laugh track. An obvious sign of this is that the laughter is more or less identical in volume or magnitude, regardless of how extreme the joke is.

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1. • Flavoring
   • Improvement
   • Seasoning

How to pronounce sweetening?

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How to say sweetening in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sweetening in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sweetening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sweetening in a Sentence

1. Scott Kennedy:

   These weren't sufficient to satisfy the U.S. negotiation team. So we'll see if the Chinese give any more on those or if they still try to focus on sweetening the purchases side, and hoping that Trump bites on the potential big numbers.

2. Nicole Bachaud:

   The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season, many home builders are offering incentives to buyers, sweetening the deal just enough to bump sales from the month prior.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sweetening
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sweetening
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetening
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweetening
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sweetening