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Confect vs Convect - What's the difference?

confect | convect |

As verbs the difference between confect and convect

is that confect is to make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct while convect is to carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection.

As a noun confect

is a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

confect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
  • The woman confected a home-remedy for the traveler's illness .
    The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.
    [My joys] are still confected with some fears.'' -- ''Stirling
  • * 1629 , , Travels in Persia
  • *:Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
  • (obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
  • *1613 , , Brittania's Pastorals , book 1, song 2
  • *:Saffron confected in Cilicia,
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
  • * Harvey
  • At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects .
  • * 1889 ,
  • She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects , cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season, and all of the best.

    convect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection.
  • :The heated surface caused the air to convect .
  • Derived terms

    * convection * convector