What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Praline vs Lozenge - What's the difference?

praline | lozenge |

As nouns the difference between praline and lozenge

is that praline is sweet containing crushed praline while lozenge is (shapes) (heraldiccharge) a quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.

As verbs the difference between praline and lozenge

is that praline is while lozenge is to form into the shape of a lozenge.

As an adjective praline

is prepared using a preparation of crushed pralines (called (l)).

praline

English

Noun

(wikipedia praline) (en noun)
  • A confection made from almonds and other nuts and caramelized sugar.

    • Derived terms

    * pralined

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    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.