confection

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
    — The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
  2. The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
  3. The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
    — The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
  4. An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature. dated
  5. Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian. dated
    — She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.
  6. A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.; A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs. obsolete
  7. A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.; A deadly poison. obsolete
    — Was it not a goodly poison that he gave! Why, he's as well now as he was before. It shuld have been some fine confection That might have given the broth some dainty taste
动词 v.
  1. To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.

词形变化

confections plural confections present,singular,third-person confectioning participle,present confectioned participle,past confectioned past

词汇关系

相关词
confect confectionary

词源

词源 1
From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.
词源 2
From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.
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