What's the difference between candy and ket?

Candy


Definition:

  • (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.

Ket


Definition:

  • (n.) Carrion; any filth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Otherwise, a positive relationship was found between antihypertensive effects of Ket and BPV.
  • (2) Moreover, MCTP-induced right ventricular hypertrophy was not attenuated by KET.
  • (3) The effect of ketanserin (KET), a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine2 (5-HT2) receptor blockade, on pressor response to vasoactive substances was examined in rats with one-kidney, one clip renal artery stenosis of 2 days' duration (2-day clipped rat) and in rabbits with renal artery stenosis of 3 days' duration (3-day clipped rabbits).
  • (4) KET alone also induced an up-regulation of cell surface beta adrenergic receptors.
  • (5) Pretreatment with Ket, similar to sulpiride (Sulp), a dopamine antagonist, potentiated the TRH-induced prolactin secretion.
  • (6) Ketanserin (Ket), a new serotonergic (5-HT2) antagonist, has recently been shown to block the estrogen-induced afternoon PRL surge (Endocrinology 120: 2070-2077, 1987).
  • (7) A horizontal flow-through coil planet centrifuge equipped with a rotatory frame holding three sets of composite column assemblies was used for purification of an endogenous ligand (ketanserin binding inhibitor) for the [3H]-ketanserin (3H-KET) recognition site.
  • (8) In ducks of the KET group, pHa, PaCO2, and PaO2, remained unchanged after administration of the drug.
  • (9) The combination of KET + HCTZ in the acute study reduced significantly systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures for up to 10 hrs.
  • (10) In the absence of estrogen, morphine inhibited LH release, and the response was delayed by METH or abolished by KET, suggesting mediation by serotonin2 (5HT2) receptors.
  • (11) (KET-IV group) or intracerebroventricular (KET-IC group) administration of 100 micrograms of ketanserin, 10 micrograms of CRF was given i.c.v.
  • (12) The purpose of this investigation was to determine in 17 stroke patients the correlation between two independent variables (knee extensor muscle torque [KET] and spasticity on the paretic side) and one dependent variable (gait speed).
  • (13) And now it’s been brought to a head.” The announcement came on the same day that Crystal Palace confirmed the signing of Martin Kelly from Liverpool, their fourth new arrival of the summer after Fraizer Campbell’s £900,000 move from Cardiff City and the free transfers of Brede Hangeland and Chris Kettings, formerly of Fulham and Blackpool respectively.
  • (14) Our study demonstrated that Ket is a powerful blood pressure lowering agent with no relevant side effects and no variations of heart rate.
  • (15) "I suppose the thing is that we like to be polite," says Joe, "and you can't do that when you've just done a fat line of ket before an interview."
  • (16) This approach was applied to microvascular networks represented by the Bra-Ket operator technique and accurately predicted the number of vessel segments in both tree-branched and loop-branched (arcade) networks.
  • (17) It permits the fitting of the Bateman equation C equals const [e-KEt -- e-KAt] or the equation C equals Be-KEt -- Ae-KAt to the observed plasma or serum concentration data after single extravascular administration of a drug.
  • (18) Computerized analysis of blood pressure (BP) was used to study for the effects of ketanserin (Ket) on BP and blood pressure variability (BPV).
  • (19) The effects of ketanserin (Ket), a serotonin (5-HT2) receptor antagonist, on DOI- and mCPP-, two 5-HT agonists, and TRH-induced PRL secretion were studied.
  • (20) Both demethyl KET and PMB had good affinity for such sites.

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