Caramel meaning

kăr'ə-məl, -mĕl', kär'məl
A smooth chewy candy made with sugar, butter, cream or milk, and flavoring.
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Burnt sugar, used for coloring and sweetening foods.
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A moderate yellow brown.
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Burnt sugar, used to color or flavor food or beverages.
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A chewy candy made from a mixture of sugar, milk, butter, etc.
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A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
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A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
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Origin of caramel

  • French from Old French from Old Spanish caramel, caramelo from Portuguese caramel from Late Latin calamellus diminutive of Latin calamus reed, cane from Greek kalamos
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Borrowing from French caramel.
    From Wiktionary

Caramel Sentence Examples

  • She drank the caramel liquid too fast and was soon too dizzy to stand.

  • Together, maybe with caramel sauce.

  • She crossed to it and peered through the peep hole, surprised to see Jonny's caramel features and black eyes.

  • Among the manufacturing establishments are foundries and machine shops, including the large shops of the Chicago & Alton railway, slaughtering and meat-packing establishments, flour and grist mills, printing and publishing establishments, a caramel factory and lumber factories.

  • When heated to above 200 it turns brown and produces caramel, a substance possessing a bitter taste, and used, in its aqueous solution or otherwise, under various trade names, for colouring confectionery, spirits, &c. The specific rotation of the plane of polarized light by glucose solutions is characteristic. The specific rotation of a freshly prepared solution is 105°, but this value gradually diminishes to 52.5°, 24 hours sufficing for the transition in the cold, and a few minutes when the solution is boiled.

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