Syrup vs. Solution — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Syrup and Solution
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Syrup
In cooking, a syrup or sirup (from Arabic: شراب; sharāb, beverage, wine and Latin: sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. Its consistency is similar to that of molasses.
Solution
A method or process of dealing with a problem
Sought a solution to falling enrollments.
Syrup
A thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit.
Solution
The answer to a problem or the explanation for something
The solution to the mystery.
Syrup
A wig
He has been bald for the past twenty years, his shame concealed by a syrup of some opulence
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Solution
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances, which may be solids, liquids, gases, or a combination of these.
Syrup
A thick, sweet, sticky liquid, consisting of a sugar base, natural or artificial flavorings, and water.
Solution
The process of forming such a mixture.
Syrup
A thick, sugary liquid made by boiling down or otherwise concentrating plant sap, juice, or grain extracts.
Solution
The state of being dissolved
Nitrogen that is in solution in the ocean.
Syrup
A concentrated solution of sugar in water, often used as a vehicle for medicine.
Solution
(Archaic) The act of separating or breaking up; dissolution.
Syrup
Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.
Maple syrup
Pancake syrup
Peaches in syrup
Solution
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
Syrup
(by extension) Any viscous liquid.
Cough syrup
Solution
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
Syrup
A wig.
Solution
An answer to a problem.
Syrup
(transitive) To convert or process into syrup.
Solution
(marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
Syrup
(transitive) To add syrup to.
Solution
Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
Syrup
(transitive) To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.
Solution
The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid; dissolution.
Syrup
Same as Sirup, Sirupy.
Solution
The crisis of a disease.
Syrup
A thick sweet sticky liquid
Solution
To treat with a solution.
Solution
The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity.
Solution
The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; - used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
Solution
The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
It is unquestionably an enterprise of more promise to assail the nations in their hour of faintness and solution, than at a time when magnificent and seductive systems of worship were at their height of energy and splendor.
Solution
The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product resulting from such absorption.
Solution
Release; deliverance; discharge.
Solution
The termination of a disease; resolution.
Solution
A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution;
He used a solution of peroxide and water
Solution
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
They were trying to find a peaceful solution
The answers were in the back of the book
He computed the result to four decimal places
Solution
A method for solving a problem;
The easy solution is to look it up in the handbook
Solution
The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
Solution
The successful action of solving a problem;
The solution took three hours
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