What is the difference between caramel and ribbon?
caramel | ribbon |
A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
A yellow-brown color.
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A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
A narrow strip or shred.
(shipbuilding)
(slang, dated, in the plural) Driving reins.
(heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(spinning) A sliver.
(computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
(cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
As nouns the difference between caramel and ribbon
is that caramel is a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky while ribbon is a long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.As a verb ribbon is
to decorate with ribbon.caramel
English
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Both the two syllable and the three syllable pronunciations are very common in all regions of the United States, but the trisyllabic pronunciation is more common than the disyllabic one in the South (excluding western Texas), northern New Jersey, eastern New York and New England, while the disyllabic one is more common than the trisyllabic one in other regions.Dialect Survey map 1], showing that both pronunciations are common in all regions, and [http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ map 2, showing which regions the di- and tri-syllabic pronunciations predominate in
Derived terms
* caramelise, caramelizeSee also
* fudge, toffeeAnagrams
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ribbon
English
(wikipedia ribbon)Noun
(en noun)- a steel or magnesium ribbon
- sails torn to ribbons
- (London Athenaeum)