candy vs rock

candy and rock both are nouns.

candy and rock both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
candy	Yes	No	Yes	No
rock	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, rock is a hyponym of candy; that is, rock is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than candy:

candy: a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
rock: hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

Other hyponyms of candy include candy bar, carob bar, hard candy, brandyball, patty, bonbon, brittle, toffee, toffy, butterscotch, candy cane, candy corn, caramel, candyfloss, cotton candy, spun sugar, dragee, dragee, fondant, fudge, gumdrop, honey crisp, mint, mint candy, horehound, jelly bean, jelly egg, candy kiss, kiss, licorice, liquorice, Life Saver, all-day sucker, lollipop, sucker, lozenge, marshmallow, marchpane, marzipan, nougat, nougat bar, nut bar, peanut bar, popcorn ball, praline, rock candy, rock candy, sugar candy, sugarplum, taffy, chocolate truffle, truffle, Turkish Delight, Easter egg.

candy (noun)	rock (noun)
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts	pitching dangerously to one side
	a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
	hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
	a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
	(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
	material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

candy (verb)	rock (verb)
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze	move back and forth or sideways
	cause to move back and forth

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