(v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
(v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
(v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
(v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
(v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
(v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.
(n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) Dietetic candies and cookies contained more calories than the regular ones.
(3) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(4) By 2008, recalls Brendan Kenalty, of customer base management, 2007-10: All the market research was saying, “Hey, everybody wants what they call candy bar phones,” which is the nonflip phone.
(5) Following eight years of employment during which he added pectin to a recipe for Christmas candies, the candymaker developed acute respiratory symptoms.
(6) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
(7) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(8) A tour of the Candy car collection, however, would provide plenty of inspiration for naming any future additions to the family.
(9) While Mind Candy tries to crack it, Smith said it remains committed to the web-based virtual world that started off the Moshi Monsters phenomenon – "the beating heart of the property" – despite changing habits of children.
(10) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(11) A distinct behaviour with a neglected oral hygiene and an excessive intake of candy, soft drinks, and other food with a high sugar content was common.
(12) Twice Beresford arranged a meeting with the Candys’ finance man so they could prove their greater wealth, and twice they cancelled.
(13) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
(14) (1) There was consistent responding to both the white noise and the candy feeder.
(15) This happened to be these clocks that Salvador had made for decoration, and Francis and Sonny got so nervous they started eating them, these fabulous candy clocks."
(16) He resigned as a director of Candy & Candy in March, leaving Nick as the only Candy on the Candy & Candy board.
(17) Last question: this sounds like a fun, risky game, much better than Candy Crush.
(18) A foreign body consisting of a piece of a celophane candy wrapper was found by surgery.
(19) The consumption of candy and sugar is inversely related to alcohol intake, raising the possibility that it is related to appetite for alcohol.
(20) Updated at 3.23am BST 2.38am BST Another bout of Mitt Romney trying to ride over the moderator and just keep talking, and nearly pulls it off but Candy Crowley backs him down, but only after some verbal pushing and shoving.
Confectionary
Definition:
(n.) A confectioner.
(a.) Prepared as a confection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cariogenic diet was estimated by the consumption of sweets, confectionary and soft drinks.
(2) In milk, dairy and confectionary products it is isolated in 3.8 per cent of samples, while in tinned foodstuffs - in 1.8 per cent.
(3) In taking account of confectionary purchased from NAAFI sources the total energy intake was raised to 4200 kcal of which 40 per cent were derived from fats (15 per cent saturated fats) and 12 per cent from added sugars.
(4) Success in the confectionary business pushed Jacqueline Mars to joint number 36 with her brother John and Forrest.
(5) Isomalt appears to be a palatable alternative sweetener capable of reducing the glycaemic effect of diabetic confectionary.
(6) As a GP dealing daily with diet-related problems, I have been advising patients to stop adding sugar to hot drinks or other foods, to stop soft drinks altogether and to have biscuits or confectionary only on special occasions.
(7) The sample included meat, dairy, fruits and confectionary products.
(8) For this purpose a confectionary was designed and elaborated consisting of five different bars, made of natural raw materials (dehydrated fruits, milk, eggs, nuts, fat), which supply an important quantity of fats and carbohtdrates, minerals, and vitamins.
(9) Thirty confectionary workers alternated piece-work (payment by results) and work with a fixed daily wage while 30 metal workers alternated work on an assembly line with work off it.
(10) The 27 clinical and 50 food isolates, mainly from meat products, frozen confectionaries, and cheeses, confirmed as L. monocytogenes were compared biochemically and serologically.
(11) The cited data support the expediency of using methylcellulose in the confectionary industry.
(12) Egyptian authorities, who have blamed traders and suppliers for hoarding and smuggling goods, said they have so far seized 9,000 tonnes of sugar in raids on factories and warehouses, including facilities belonging to Pepsico and Edita, one of the country’s largest manufacturers of confectionaries.
(13) Android 4.4 continues the confectionary naming scheme Facebook Twitter Pinterest Android is now named after the Kitkat Nestle chocolate biscuit.
(14) In an apparent allusion to the attempted acquisition of Cadbury by the American confectionary group Kraft , Myners asked shareholders to stay firm in the face of a hostile buyer and focus on long term returns rather than "the bounce in a share price that comes with a takeover".
(15) Not to everyone's taste, admits the French chocolate-maker Sylvain Musquar , who suggests customers should avoid looking closely at the original handmade confectionary in pride of place in his patisserie shop in Nancy.
(16) The aim of this study was to determine the nutritional content of the foods provided to, and the confectionary purchased by, personnel serving at sea in British warships.
(17) Although he did not mention Cadbury by name, Myners comments are bound to resonate with investors in the 185-year-old confectionary firm, which is the subject of at least two possible bids from the US.
(18) This is often blamed on a situation where confectionary, soft drinks and refined sugar-containing snacks have become easily available.
(19) A bitter pill The Mexican government has made many attempts to fight the pervasive weight problem, attracting international attention for its implementation of a national tax of one peso for sugar-sweetened beverages, and an 8% price rise on high-calorie foods such as ice-cream, chocolates and confectionary.
(20) Well, I'd like to apologise to the date for rejecting its quiet, wrinkled brown-ness for the easy allure of foil-wrapped confectionary.