The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
The process of breeding a mixed offspring from two different strains or species of animal or plant
The linear combination of atomic orbitals in a molecule to form hybrid orbitals.
The formation of double-stranded nucleic acid by complementary base-pairing
the conversion of a fleet of vehicles to hybrids.