Confection vs. Candy

Confection and Candy Definitions
Confection
The act or process of confecting or the result of it
"These sentiments are not the confection of a consummate courtroom actor" (Ron Rosenbaum).
Candy
A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.
Confection
A sweet prepared food, such as candy or cake.
Candy
A piece of such a confection.
Confection
A sweetened medicinal compound; an electuary.
Candy
(Slang) An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.
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Confection
A piece displaying splendid craft, skill, and work
The gown was a confection of satin and appliqué.
Candy
To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup
Candy apples.
Candy ginger.
Confection
To make into a confection.
Candy
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
Confection
A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
Candy
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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Confection
The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
Candy
Crack cocaine.
Confection
The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
Candy
(uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
Candy kid; candy raver
Confection
(dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
Candy
(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
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Confection
(dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.
Candy
(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
Confection
(pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
Candy
(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
Confection
To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
Candy
(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Confection
A composition of different materials.
A new confection of mold.
Candy
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
Confection
A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons.
Candy
To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
Confection
A composition of drugs.
Candy
To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Those frosts that winter bringsWhich candy every green.
Confection
A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.
Candy
To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
Confection
A food rich in sugar
Candy
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Confection
The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components
Candy
Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.
Confection
Make into a confection;
This medicine is home-confected
Candy
Cocaine.
Candy
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Candy
A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
Candy
Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze