different between custard vs vanilla

English

Etymology

Alteration of croustade.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s.t?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s.t?d/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)d

Noun

custard (countable and uncountable, plural custards)

1. A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert.

Holonyms

• trifle

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

custard m (genitive singular custaird, nominative plural custaird)

1. custard

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "custard" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “custard” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “custard” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??n?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?
• IPA^(key): /v??n?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)

1. (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
2. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

   Synonym: vanilla bean

3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

   Synonym: vanilla extract

4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.

5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

   Synonym: imitation vanilla

6. (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism; a normophile
7. (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game
8. A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

Derived terms

• Cuban vanilla
• vanilla grass
• vanillaness

Translations

See also

• flavour extract

Adjective

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
2. (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
   • 2001, "Michael Foot", BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.announce)

     BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

3. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.

   Synonym: normophilic
4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Synonyms

• vanillar
• See also Thesaurus:bare-bones

Related terms

• vanillin

Translations

See also

• (slang, electronics): jellybean

Icelandic

Etymology

From English vanilla, from Spanish vainilla, diminutive of vaina (“pod”), from Latin v?g?na (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?n?l?a/

Noun

vanilla f (genitive singular vanillu, nominative plural vanillur)

1. (usually singular only, uncountable) vanilla

Declension

Derived terms

• vanilluplanta