confect

con·fect

C0558100 (kən-fĕkt′)tr.v. con·fect·ed, con·fect·ing, con·fects 1. To make into a confection or preserve.2. To put together by combining materials: a group of writers who confected a television series.n. (kŏn′fĕkt′) A sweet confection, such as candy.

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[Middle English confecten, to prepare, from Latin cōnficere, cōnfect- : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

confect

(kənˈfɛkt) vb (tr) 1. to prepare by combining ingredients2. to make; construct[C16: from Latin confectus prepared, from conficere to accomplish, from com- (intensive) + facere to make]

con•fect

(v. kənˈfɛkt; n. ˈkɒn fɛkt)

v.t. 1. to compose from various ingredients. 2. to make into a confection. 3. to construct; form; make. n. 4. a sweet confection. [1350–1400; Middle English < Latin confectus, past participle of conficere to produce, effect]

confect

Past participle: confected
Gerund: confecting

Imperative
confect
confect

Present
I confect
you confect
he/she/it confects
we confect
you confect
they confect

Preterite
I confected
you confected
he/she/it confected
we confected
you confected
they confected

Present Continuous
I am confecting
you are confecting
he/she/it is confecting
we are confecting
you are confecting
they are confecting

Present Perfect
I have confected
you have confected
he/she/it has confected
we have confected
you have confected
they have confected

Past Continuous
I was confecting
you were confecting
he/she/it was confecting
we were confecting
you were confecting
they were confecting

Past Perfect
I had confected
you had confected
he/she/it had confected
we had confected
you had confected
they had confected

Future
I will confect
you will confect
he/she/it will confect
we will confect
you will confect
they will confect

Future Perfect
I will have confected
you will have confected
he/she/it will have confected
we will have confected
you will have confected
they will have confected

Future Continuous
I will be confecting
you will be confecting
he/she/it will be confecting
we will be confecting
you will be confecting
they will be confecting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been confecting
you have been confecting
he/she/it has been confecting
we have been confecting
you have been confecting
they have been confecting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been confecting
you will have been confecting
he/she/it will have been confecting
we will have been confecting
you will have been confecting
they will have been confecting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been confecting
you had been confecting
he/she/it had been confecting
we had been confecting
you had been confecting
they had been confecting

Conditional
I would confect
you would confect
he/she/it would confect
we would confect
you would confect
they would confect

Past Conditional
I would have confected
you would have confected
he/she/it would have confected
we would have confected
you would have confected
they would have confected

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	confect - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nutscandyconfection, sweet - a food rich in sugarcandy bar - a candy shaped as a barcarob bar - a bar of candy made with carob powderhard candy - candy that is brittle; "you can break a tooth on that hard candy"brandyball - a British candy flavored with brandypatty - round flat candybonbon - a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolatebrittle, toffee, toffy - caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheetsbutterscotch - a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugarcandy cane - a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes)candy corn - a small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corncaramel - firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milkcandyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugar - a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperaturedragee - sugar-coated nut or fruit piecedragee - silvery candy beads used for decorating cakesfondant - candy made of a thick creamy sugar pastefudge - soft creamy candygumdrop - a jellied candy coated with sugar crystalshoney crisp - a crisp candy made with honeymint candy, mint - a candy that is flavored with a mint oilhorehound - a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plantjelly bean, jelly egg - sugar-glazed jellied candycandy kiss, kiss - any of several bite-sized candieslicorice, liquorice - a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plantLife Saver - a candy shaped like a small lifesaverall-day sucker, lollipop, sucker - hard candy on a sticklozenge - a small aromatic or medicated candymarshmallow - spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugarmarchpane, marzipan - almond paste and egg whitesnougat - nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar pastenougat bar - a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolatenut bar - paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into barspeanut bar - bar of peanuts in taffypopcorn ball - popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into ballspraline - cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecansrock candy - sugar in large hard clear crystals on a stringrock candy, rock - hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)sugar candy - made by boiling pure sugar until it hardenssugarplum - any of various small sugary candiestaffy - chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossychocolate truffle, truffle - creamy chocolate candyTurkish Delight - a jellied candy typically flavored with rose waterEaster egg - an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
Verb	1.	confect - make or constructproduce, create, make - create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
	2.	confect - make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected"comfit, confectionassemble, put together, tack together, set up, piece, tack - create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"