What's the difference between candy and preserve?

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.

Preserve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
  • (v. t.) To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.
  • (v. t.) To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.
  • (v. i.) To make preserves.
  • (v. i.) To protect game for purposes of sport.
  • (n.) That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.
  • (n.) A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (2) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
  • (3) In hypophysectomized rats the activity of alanine aminotransferase was increased, but its normal zonation (predominance in the periportal zone) was preserved.
  • (4) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (5) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
  • (6) A conduit of a diameter of 23 mm was made by hand with a glutaraldehyde preserved xenopericardial graft.
  • (7) Preservation of dopaminergic and H1 neurotransmission, probably within the blood barrier, is needed to allow the neuroendocrine transduction of cholinergic inputs, whereas the role of 5-HT neurotransmission remains uncertain.
  • (8) The combination vaccine consisted of 12 Lf tetanus toxoid and 10 TCID50 vaccinia virus "MVA" preserved with gelatine and glucosamine.
  • (9) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (10) During the last 10 years 94% of patients have been normocalcaemic postoperatively, thanks mainly to the re-implantation of autologous parathyroid tissue, preserved by low-temperature storage.
  • (11) This study demonstrated that significant global and regional ventricular dysfunction develops immediately after removal of the papillary muscles, whereas myocardial contractility is preserved in patients undergoing mitral valve repair.
  • (12) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (13) 27% of the neurons revealed high sensitivity to the temperature stimulus with coefficient Q10 from 2.4 to 30; 6% of the neurons reacted by the on-response type; 5% of the neurons changed their activity and preserved the new level.
  • (14) Because isosmolar albumin solution is easier to prepare than hyperosmolar cryoprecipitated plasma and gives comparable results, it remains our perfusate of choice for continuous perfusion preservation.
  • (15) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (16) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.
  • (17) Knee preservation is an important factor for better rehabilitation.
  • (18) The results of our utilization review were conveyed to local hospitals and the blood supplier in an effort to preserved donor blood.
  • (19) An effective gonadal shield should reduce the gonadal dose to a level low enough to preserve spermatogenesis in most patients.
  • (20) Osteomalacia is characterized by large osteoid seams and a preserved volume of bone trabeculae.