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candy | mina |

As a proper noun candy

is a pet form of the female given name candace or candice.

As a pronoun mina is

mine.

candy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sucre candi ("candy sugar"), from (etyl) .

Noun

  • (uncountable, chiefly, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
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  • (countable, chiefly, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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    • Synonyms
    * (confection) confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US) * (piece of candy) sweet (British), lolly (Australia)
    Derived terms
    * arm candy * bee candy * brain candy * candy ass * candy cane * candy floss * candy man * candy store * candy stripe * candy striper * cotton candy * ear candy * eye candy * hard candy * like taking candy from a baby * nose candy * rock candy * sugar candy

    Verb

  • (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
  • To have sugar crystals form in or on.
    • Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
  • To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * candee

    Noun

    (candy)
  • (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
    • Synonyms
    * maunee

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    mina

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) maina'' "starling", from (etyl) ''madana .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The myna bird.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mina, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.
  • * 1989 , C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato?s Apology of Socrates , page 174,
    • What then of the actual fine of thirty minae' Socrates proposes? Thirty ' minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years? wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a libary of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras? book is any guide (26d6-e2).
  • (historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent.
  • * 1999 , Andrew George, translating Gilgamesh , VI:
    • Thirty minas' of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two ' minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.

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