Candy vs. Sweet
Difference Between Candy and Sweet
Candynoun
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
Sweetadjective
Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
a sweet appleCandynoun
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
Sweetadjective
Having a taste of sugar.
Candynoun
(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine
Sweetadjective
Containing a sweetening ingredient.
Candynoun
(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
Sweetadjective
(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
Sweet wines are better dessert wines.Candyverb
(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
Sweetadjective
Not having a salty taste.
sweet butterCandyverb
(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.Sweetadjective
Having a pleasant smell.
a sweet scentCandyverb
(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Sweetadjective
Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
sweet milkCandynoun
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
Sweetadjective
Having a pleasant sound.
a sweet tuneCandyverb
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Sweetadjective
Having a pleasing disposition.
a sweet childSweetadjective
Having a helpful disposition.
It was sweet of him to help out.Sweetadjective
(mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
sweet soilsweet crude oilSweetadjective
(informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.Sweetadjective
}} Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.Sweetadjective
(obsolete) Fresh; not salt or brackish.
sweet waterSweetadjective
Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
a sweet face; a sweet colour or complexionSweetadverb
In a sweet manner.
Sweetnoun
(uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
Sweetnoun
A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
Sweetnoun
A food eaten for dessert.
Can we see the sweet menu, please?Sweetnoun
sweetheart; darling.
Sweetnoun
(obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
Sweetnoun
(obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
Sweetnoun
English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
Sweetnoun
a dish served as the last course of a meal
Sweetnoun
a food rich in sugar
Sweetnoun
the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
Sweetnoun
the property of containing sugar
Sweetadjective
having a pleasant taste (as of sugar)
Sweetadjective
having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub;
an angelic smilea cherubic facelooking so seraphic when he slepta sweet dispositionSweetadjective
pleasing to the ear;
the dulcet tones of the celloSweetadjective
one of the four basic taste sensations; very pleasant; like the taste of sugar or honey
Sweetadjective
pleasing to the senses;
the sweet song of the larkthe sweet face of a childSweetadjective
pleasing to the mind or feeling;
sweet revengeSweetadjective
having a natural fragrance;
odoriferous spicesthe odorous air of the orchardthe perfumed air of Junescented flowersSweetadjective
(used of wines) having a sweet taste
Sweetadjective
not soured or preserved;
sweet milkSweetadjective
with sweetening added
Sweetadjective
not having a salty taste;
sweet waterSweetadverb
in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly');
Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetlyhow sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this banktalking sweet to each other
