(n.) Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.
(n.) A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride, but ceded the number one spot to Mars when it took over gum maker Wrigley last year.
(2) As I outlined during our meeting, I believe we can strengthen both of our companies by bringing them together, enhancing their worldwide scale and scope, and capitalizing on significant opportunities, building on the position of Kraft Foods Inc. ("Kraft Foods") as a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and quick meals for the benefit of all of our respective stakeholders.
(3) This study shows that restricting consumption of confectionery and beverages may be effective in preventing dental caries; however, encouragement of toothbrushing may not be effective in limiting dental caries progression.
(4) Confectionery levels ranged between 0.26 and 7.9 mg g-1, whilst contents in health products were 0.30-47.1 mg g-1, the highest values being measured for throat pearls.
(5) Kandyman , a psychopathic killer hired by Helen A, ruler of human colony Terra Alpha, is some kind of confectionery weirdo.
(6) "It was very pleasant this Easter on the Côte de Mersey but we're not so sure that the British avoided higher end chocolate ovals because of rocketing temperatures as opposed to households counting their pennies in tough times – chocolate has become much more expensive – and the questionable health credentials of confectionery taking further hold on parents," said Clive Black of Shore Capital.
(7) The boost has been driven by an approximate 40% year-on-year increase in ad spend by food companies, a 47% boost by drinks brands, a 44% climb in advertising by confectionery firms and a 40% lift in pharmaceutical spend.
(8) The SIR for lung cancer in bakers and pastrycooks were significantly lower in regions where the percentages of employed in big bakeries and confectioneries were high.
(9) Pneumoconiosis is not reported in food industry workers, and more specifically in the confectionery industry.
(10) Confectionery giant Joseph Rowntree, for example, inspired by his own research into the social effects of poverty, provided a library, social welfare officer, doctor and dentist for his workforce, as well as setting up a pension fund for them.
(11) It was subsequently shown for confectionery and snack food products wrapped in commercially printed polypropylene films that plasticizers only present in the printing ink migrated into the foods.
(12) It was twice as common among those handling fish, meat and vegetables or making "instant" food as among those making confectionery.
(13) The authors backed away from earlier suggestions they would call for a blanket ban on packed lunches, although they do want schools to monitor lunches brought from home, and for schools to ban sugary drinks and confectionery.
(14) The AS relationship was supported by a separate association between frequency of confectionery consumption and CD.
(15) Teeth-tolerable confectionery can be specially marked.
(16) "We believe scale will be an increasing source of competitive advantage in both the confectionery category and the global food business as a whole," said Rosenfeld, who pointed out that the tie-up will allow Kraft to become the world's leading confectionery company with a market share of 14.8%, a sliver higher than its US rival Mars, which recently bought Wrigley's chewing gum to take its share to 14.6%.
(17) Bad taste confectionery aside, Hadlow acknowledges that she would love another big (normally) pre-watershed comedy like Miranda, but says BBC2 "must have the ability to prize things for other reasons than [audience] volume".
(18) I read The Vagina Monologues and thought it sounded like post-feminist confectionery - fleetingly bonding, perhaps, but scarcely more consciousness-raising than a trip to see the Chippendales.
(19) Most outbreaks during all analyzed years were connected with private homes, but most cases--with public cafeterias until 1979; with coffee, ice cream and confectionery places in 1985-1987 and with private homes in 1988-1989.
(20) The Christmas tub of confectionery, for instance, has reduced in size over the last few years to keep within the £4 to £5 price tag.” Manufacturers argue they have had to respond to rising commodity prices, while at the same time dealing with retailers that do not want to lose out to competitors by putting prices up.
Sweets
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(2) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(3) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
(4) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
(5) The halfwidth of the fluorescence emission band increases in parallel with the loss of sweetness.
(6) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(7) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(8) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
(9) A case of Sweet's syndrome developed as a presenting feature of multiple myeloma.
(10) Though the thought of a Panama team listening to the USA team huddle coyly sharing their secrets is a rather sweet thought.
(11) The sweetness of monellin under these two types of denaturing conditions, temperature and pH, can be predicted by the fluorescence emission spectrum of the protein.
(12) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
(13) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(14) Sweet flavours were often correctly identified, with the exception of egg nog, but savoury flavours were recognised less frequently.
(15) Thus, the B center of the Shallenberger A-H,B theory of sweetness is best regarded as being -SO3- rather than -SO2- for sulfamates.
(16) in Shibuya-ku goes a little easier on the sugary sweet styles.
(17) Two subjects with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in whom pustular Sweet's syndrome was diagnosed are reported.
(18) In this paper, the sweetness receptor is refined with use of the shapes of 3-anilino-2-styryl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (sweet) and of 3-anilino-2-phenyl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (tasteless), two large and almost completely rigid tastants.
(19) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
(20) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.