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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#m1)

2) A caramel is a chewy sweet made from sugar, butter and milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#m2)

3) Caramel is a light brown colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#x1)
- Melting sugar turns into caramel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#x2)
- Grandma gave us a chewy caramel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#x3)
- Hot caramel can burn, so ask an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#x4)
- Her puppy has a caramel-coloured coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#x5)
- Salted caramel is sweet and a bit salty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/4/)
- [Caramel is sugar broken down by strong heat into new substances; hot caramel is much hotter than boiling water and sticks to skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caramel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.