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# caramel

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

«caramel» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Caramel is a sweet, brown, sticky food made by heating sugar until it melts and turns brown. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#m2)
3. Caramel is a light brown colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «caramel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caramel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«caramel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/caramel.html) on Mova free.