(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.
Lollipop
Definition:
(n.) A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cuts affect a wide spectrum of projects: youth offending teams will shrink, probation staff numbers will dwindle, refugee advice centres will halve in size, Sure Start services will disappear, domestic violence centres will have to restrict the number of people they can help, HIV-prevention schemes will end, lollipop wardens will no longer be funded, help for women with postnatal depression will vanish, a work scheme for people who are registered blind will be wound down, day centres for street drinkers will close their doors, theatres will get less money, debt advice services will have fewer people available to help, fire stations will shut.
(2) Fifa is giving back to Africa.” • His post-tournament verdict, after Fifa spent a tax-exempt summer suing keyring salesmen and a lollipop maker for “trying to take advantage”: “2010 was a love story.
(3) Is it Iranian tea served with saffron lollipops, brewed with cardamom , or served with kolucheh ?
(4) The data are fully consistent with the "lollipop" model of the tertiary structure.
(5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
(6) Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, says: "Lollipop men and women are the human face of road safety.
(7) Previous results have shown that when a T-even bacteriophage-infected cell was exposed to l-canavanine followed by an exposure to l-arginine, a monster phage particle, termed a lollipop, was formed.
(8) Mild reduction of the recombinant material revealed the lollipop-shaped monomers composed of a globular domain and a tail with a discrete kink in the middle portion.
(9) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
(10) They were led by a Guide leader and included two children, a naval officer, a judge, two Chelsea pensioners, a teacher, a peer, a nurse and a lollipop lady, wearing high visibility uniform but not, alas, carrying her stick.
(11) We now describe certain parameters concerning (i) the induction and (ii) the formation of T4 lollipops.
(12) Becoming a grandfather for the second time, following the birth of Princess Charlotte on 2 May, saw Prince Charles showered with baby booties, wooden rattles, baby blankets, vests, hats and even two giant lollipops.
(13) Comparisons of the observed Dto, zeta for PDS with predicted values using hydrodynamic theory are consistent with a "lollipop" conformation for the molecule.
(14) Diatchenko, who has had surgery on her left achilles, served lollipops from the start and retired in tears after winning just five of the 37 points played – as one might expect of someone who pulled out of her last tournament in Vancouver and was double-bageled in Stanford recently.
(15) One school in Ipswich will have its £3,000-a-year lollipop lady sponsored by a local estate agent.
(16) The " Cover Your Lollipop " campaign likens women to candy, there for the consumption and enjoyment of men.
(17) The cannabis-infused products include lollipops, gummy sweets, cookies, brownies, cartons of grape, mango and cherry juice, and chocolate bars in foil packets with exotic flavours such as banana and walnut.
(18) I spat out my cherry lollipop and it slimed down my pigtail before landing in my push-up bra.
(19) The authors compared the safety, efficacy, and effects on gastric volume and pH of oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate (OTFC) premedication and of placebo lollipop and no premedication in 55 children undergoing elective operations.
(20) The first traitor to have the pleasure was William “Braveheart” Wallace in 1305 and by the time the tradition petered out in the late 17th century, the likes of Wat Tyler, Thomas Cromwell and Guy Fawkes had all been similarly transformed into gruesome human lollipops – their heads all parboiled, sautéed in pitch, and cared for by the keeper of the heads, one of the weirdest jobs in old London.