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Definition: Hard Candy |
Hard CandyNoun1. Candy that is brittle; "you can break a tooth on that hard candy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | High-boiled, or hard, candy. When solutions of mixed sugars are boiled, they are concentrated into a plastic mass that may be flavoured, coloured, and formed into shapes and allowed to harden. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Hard Candy |
| English words defined with "hard candy": all-day sucker ♦ butterscotch ♦ candy cane ♦ jawbreaker ♦ lemon drop, lollipop ♦ rock, rock candy ♦ sourball, sucker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hard candy": high-boiled candy. (references) |
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Screenplays | All I have is a piece of hard candy. But it's not for eating. (The Outlaw Josey Wales; writing credit: Forrest Carter; Sonia Chernus) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hard Candy (1976) | |
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Health | Recommendations are to avoid chewing gum and to avoid eating hard candy. (references) | |
Suck on hard candy or popsicles or chew gum. These can help make more saliva. (references) | ||
Ask your doctor if you can suck on ice chips, popsicles, or sugarless hard candy. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hard candy | 408 |
hard candy recipe | 27 |
hard candy cosmetic | 18 |
hard candy mold | 13 |
hard candy make up | 11 |
hard candy make | 6 |
hard candy nail polish | 6 |
hard candy christmas | 6 |
sugar free hard candy | 5 |
making hard candy | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hard candy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | bonbon dur. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 落雁 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | らくが". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardhay andycay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-d-h-n-r-y" | |
-2 letters: anarchy, handcar. | |
-3 letters: anarch, canard, canary, chadar, dharna. | |
-4 letters: caddy, candy, carny, chard, chary, dacha, dandy, dryad, handy, hardy, hydra, ranch, randy, rayah. | |
-5 letters: achy, arch, ayah, card, carn, chad, char, chay, cyan, dada, darn, dray, dyad, haar, hand, hard, nada, narc, nard, nary, racy, rand, raya, rynd, yard, yarn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-d-h-n-r-y" | |
+5 letters: hydrodynamical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 64 43 61 6E 64 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r d   C a n d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 0064 0043 0061 006E 0064 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4267847023767807091 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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