| 单词 | confection |
| 释义 | confection (once / 2350 pages) 1nv 2n A confection is a food loaded with sugar. Chocolate layer cake, strawberry lollipops, and vanilla bonbons are all confections. Yum! Do you have a sweet tooth? Then you love confections, which are sweet treats such as cakes and candies and all manner of food that’s full of sugary deliciousness. The candy aisle is loaded with confections. Bakeries sell confections too, like cupcakes. A confection is almost always a delicious dessert. Just make sure you eat your vegetables before you eat any confections! WORD FAMILYconfection: confectioned, confectioner, confectionery, confectioning, confections+/confect: confected, confecting, confection, confects/confectioner: confectioners/confectionery: confectioneries USAGE EXAMPLESThis French snowball of a confection is an enticing combination of whipped cream, ganache, meringue and various toppings. Washington Post(Dec 14, 2016) The confection’s price often reflected this, which meant sugarplums were a luxury item worthy of visions, to be enjoyed on a special occasion. Time(Dec 21, 2016) Weeks before the confections show up in the shops, you find them previewed in glossy magazines and in every newspaper. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) 1 1n a food rich in sugar Syn|Hypo|Hyper sweet confectionery candy and other sweets considered collectively confiturepreserved or candied fruit sweetmeata sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry) candy, confecta rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts hardbakea British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds chewing gum, guma preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing candied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, taffy apple, toffee applean apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar) center, centrethe sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering comfitcandy containing a fruit or nut maraschino, maraschino cherrycherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur nonpareilcolored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies candy bara candy shaped as a bar carob bara bar of candy made with carob powder hard candycandy that is brittle brandyballa British candy flavored with brandy pattyround flat candy bonbona candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate brittle, toffee, toffycaramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets gum balla ball of chewing gum with a coating of colored sugar bubble guma kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles butterscotcha hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar candied fruit, crystallized fruit, succadefruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals candy canea hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes) candy corna small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn caramelfirm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk candyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugara candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature drageesugar-coated nut or fruit piece drageesilvery candy beads used for decorating cakes fondantcandy made of a thick creamy sugar paste fudgesoft creamy candy gumdropa jellied candy coated with sugar crystals honey crispa crisp candy made with honey mint, mint candya candy that is flavored with a mint oil horehounda candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant jelly bean, jelly eggsugar-glazed jellied candy candy kiss, kissany of several bite-sized candies licorice, liquoricea black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant Life Savera candy shaped like a small lifesaver all-day sucker, lollipop, suckerhard candy on a stick lozengea small aromatic or medicated candy marshmallowspongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar marchpane, marzipanalmond paste and egg whites nougatnuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste nougat bara bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate nut barpaste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars peanut barbar of peanuts in taffy popcorn ballpopcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls pralinecookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans rock candysugar in large hard clear crystals on a string rock, rock candyhard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) sugar candymade by boiling pure sugar until it hardens sugarplumany of various small sugary candies taffychewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy chocolate truffle, trufflecreamy chocolate candy Turkish Delighta jellied candy typically flavored with rose water conserve, conserves, preserve, preservesfruit preserved by cooking with sugar Easter eggan egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat something considered choice to eat 2v make into a confection 2Syn|Hyper comfit, confect assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together create by putting components or members together n the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components Syn|Hyper concoction creating from raw materials the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it |
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