What's the difference between candy and peep?

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.

Peep


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
  • (v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
  • (v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
  • (n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.
  • (n.) First outlook or appearance.
  • (n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.
  • (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).
  • (n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
  • (2) LTV was found to be decreased in animals treated with PEEP.
  • (3) Decreasing inadvertent PEEP by lengthening the expiratory time increased the compliance of the respiratory system (r = -0.74, n = 10, P less than 0.02).
  • (4) Experiments in volume- expanded healthy volunteers also suggest that CMV with PEEP is able to depress plasma levels of alpha-ANP.
  • (5) Most of these patients were managed without paralysis using intermittent mandatory ventilation and positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP).
  • (6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
  • (7) Selective PEEP caused a larger volume increase in the dependent lung than general PEEP.
  • (8) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
  • (9) Oxygenation improved in both groups during the resolution of oedema with a more evident and early effect in the PEEP group.
  • (10) While PEEP decreased, both PA--PEEP and VT increased with increasing diameter of stenosis.
  • (11) Five different ventilatory patterns were used for reinflation: simulated normal breathing with and without continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), simulated deep breathing and mechanical ventilation with and without positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).
  • (12) Hence, Paw was a major determinant of oxygenation, although a PEEP greater than Pflex appeared necessary to optimize oxygenation at a constant Paw.
  • (13) Continued hemodynamic and pulmonary monitoring of patients is mandatory when using PEEP.
  • (14) Four of the patients (14 percent) developed a pneumothorax following institution of high PEEP therapy.
  • (15) Although PEEP, SN, and EMB all increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure, PEEP, had negligible effect on Zc and Ca, whereas SN increased Zc but decreased Ca (+24% and -49%, respectively), and EMB decreased both Zc and Ca (-33% and -39%, respectively).
  • (16) However, during both hypercapnia and PEEP, length changes of the external oblique were significantly greater than those of the rectus abdominis.
  • (17) Not for them clipboards, iPads and a rolled-up copy of the New Statesman peeping out of their pockets.
  • (18) This study was performed to determine the clinical application of this technique in critically ill patients on PEEP.
  • (19) When the left renal vein was occluded and the RVP was maintained at the level seen during 20 cm H2O of PEEP, left RBF recovered only 50% of the difference from the flow during zero PEEP.
  • (20) At a PEEP of 8 cm H2O, cardiac performance was impaired significantly, with a profound decrease of the systemic and pulmonary blood flow, SVRV and SVLV and a reflectory increase of the Rs.