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Lozenge vs Toffee - What's the difference?

lozenge | toffee |

As nouns the difference between lozenge and toffee

is that lozenge is a quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles while toffee is a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.

As a verb lozenge

is to form into the shape of a lozenge.

lozenge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (shapes) (heraldiccharge) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
  • * 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus , Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
    • Wherein the decussis'' is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a ''Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
    • The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
  • A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a (soplink).
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

    Synonyms

    * (quadrilateral) diamond (informal), rhomb, rhombus (most common in mathematics) * (medicated sweet) pastille, throat pastille, troche

    Verb

    (lozeng)
  • To form into the shape of a lozenge.
  • To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.

    • toffee

    English

    (wikipedia toffee)

    Alternative forms

    * taffy (mostly US ) * toffy

    Noun

  • (uncountable) a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard
  • (countable) a small, individual piece of toffee
    • a box of toffees

    Derived terms

    * bonfire toffee * cinder toffee * English toffee * for toffee * honeycomb toffee * maple toffee * sponge toffee * toffee apple * toffee-brown * toffee-colored, toffee-coloured * toffee hammer * toffee-nose * toffee-nosed * toffee paper

    See also

    * butterscotch * caramel * fudge

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