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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

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