Sucrose found in a fruit and sucrose used to bake a cake are identical. All have the same calorific values (4 kcal/ 17 kJ of energy per gram). The body does not distinguish between sugars used in manufactured food and drinks or in the home, and those found naturally in foods.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  maxim, axiom(noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits. 2  axiom(noun) (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident.
In phraseology, idioms are defined as a sub-type of phraseme, the meaning of which is not the regular sum of the meanings of its component parts. John Saeed defines an idiom as collocated words that became affixed to each other until metamorphosing into a fossilised term.