CANDY (candied)

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Irregular inflected form: candied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does candy mean? 

• CANDY (noun)
  The noun CANDY has 1 sense:

1. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

  Familiarity information: CANDY used as a noun is very rare.

• CANDY (verb)
  The verb CANDY has 1 sense:

1. coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

  Familiarity information: CANDY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

candy; confect

Hypernyms ("candy" is a kind of...):

confection; sweet (a food rich in sugar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "candy"):

popcorn ball (popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls)

licorice; liquorice (a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant)

Life Saver (a candy shaped like a small lifesaver)

all-day sucker; lollipop; sucker (hard candy on a stick)

lozenge (a small aromatic or medicated candy)

marshmallow (spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar)

marchpane; marzipan (almond paste and egg whites)

nougat (nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste)

nougat bar (a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate)

nut bar (paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars)

peanut bar (bar of peanuts in taffy)

candy kiss; kiss (any of several bite-sized candies)

praline (cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans)

rock candy (sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string)

rock; rock candy (hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint))

sugar candy (made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens)

sugarplum (any of various small sugary candies)

taffy (chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy)

chocolate truffle; truffle (creamy chocolate candy)

Turkish Delight (a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water)

Easter egg (an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter)

candyfloss; cotton candy; spun sugar (a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature)

carob bar (a bar of candy made with carob powder)

hard candy (candy that is brittle)

brandyball (a British candy flavored with brandy)

patty (round flat candy)

bonbon (a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate)

brittle; toffee; toffy (caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets)

butterscotch (a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar)

candy 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 corn)

caramel (firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk)

candy bar (a candy shaped as a bar)

dragee (sugar-coated nut or fruit piece)

dragee (silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes)

fondant (candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste)

fudge (soft creamy candy)

gumdrop (a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals)

honey crisp (a crisp candy made with honey)

mint; mint candy (a candy that is flavored with a mint oil)

horehound (a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant)

jelly bean; jelly egg (sugar-glazed jellied candy)

• CANDY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they candy    ... he / she / it candies   
Past simple: candied   
Past participle: candied   
-ing form: candying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

candy; glaze; sugarcoat

Hypernyms (to "candy" is one way to...):

dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten (make sweeter in taste)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

At ages 14-15, the teens participated in an experiment in which they could earn rewards — in the form of M&M's candies — for performing a computer task.

(Study in Teens Shows Brain Responses to Rewards Linked to Pain Sensitivity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Furthermore, a frequent consumption of sugary candy was associated with a higher estimated activity of the delta-9-desaturase in liver.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Different flavors of liquids are available, including many that appeal to youth, such as fruit, chocolate and candy.

(Using Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage DNA, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles cotton candy.

(Cotton Candy Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

Oil from the leaves is used in very small amounts in mouthwash and in medicines and candy used to treat and soothe sore throats and coughs.

(Eucalyptus, NCI Dictionary)

Then the curtain fell, and the audience reposed and ate candy while discussing the merits of the play.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Green candy and green pop corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats, and green clothes of all sorts.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"Now run along and get some candy, and don't forget to give some to your brothers and sisters. Be sure and get the kind that lasts longest."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Co-workers may have lollipops and candy canes dancing in their heads, but not you—you will be concentrating on tasks that have to be done. That’s fine!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)