caramel

«caramel» in Mova's school dictionary: a sweet, brown, sticky food made by heating sugar until… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (caramel — uncountable; a caramel, caramels — a sweet); adjective (caramel colour)

meaning for a pupil

1) Caramel is a sweet, brown, sticky food made by heating sugar until it melts and turns brown. tree →

2) A caramel is a chewy sweet made from sugar, butter and milk. tree →

3) Caramel is a light brown colour. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and cooking, heating sugar is a change that cannot be reversed: white sugar melts and turns into brown caramel. In everyday life caramel is in desserts, sauces, sweets and ice cream. Safety: hot caramel is extremely hot and sticks to skin, so only make it with an adult.

examples

• We drizzled caramel sauce over the ice cream. tree →
• Melting sugar turns into caramel. tree →
• Grandma gave us a chewy caramel. tree →
• Hot caramel can burn, so ask an adult. tree →
• Her puppy has a caramel-coloured coat. tree →
• Salted caramel is sweet and a bit salty. tree →

note

Pronounced «KA-ra-mel» or «KAR-mel» (US). Uncountable as food, countable as sweets. Verb: caramelise (caramelize in US). Making caramel is an irreversible change: you cannot get the white sugar back.

In the corpora

• Knowing the chemistry also keeps you safe: hot caramel, metal in the microwave and old rice all have rules for good reasons.
• Caramel is sugar broken down by strong heat into new substances; hot caramel is much hotter than boiling water and sticks to skin.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «caramel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.