confect (redirected from confecting)

con·fect  (kn-fkt)

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. (knfkt)

A sweet confection, such as candy.

---

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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	confect - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts candy confection, sweet - a food rich in sugar candy bar - a candy shaped as a bar carob bar - a bar of candy made with carob powder hard candy - candy that is brittle; "you can break a tooth on that hard candy" 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 candyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugar - a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature 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 candy, mint - 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 kiss, kiss - any of several bite-sized candies 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 popcorn ball - popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls praline - cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans rock candy - sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string rock candy, rock - 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
Verb	1.	confect - make or construct produce, 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, confection assemble, 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"