Syrup vs. Tincture — What's the Difference?

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.

A tincture is typically an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol (ethyl alcohol). Solvent concentrations of 25–60% are common, but may run as high as 90%.

A thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit.

A coloring or dyeing substance; a pigment.

A wig

An imparted color; a tint.

A thick, sweet, sticky liquid, consisting of a sugar base, natural or artificial flavorings, and water.

A quality that colors, pervades, or distinguishes.

A thick, sugary liquid made by boiling down or otherwise concentrating plant sap, juice, or grain extracts.

A trace or vestige

A concentrated solution of sugar in water, often used as a vehicle for medicine.

An alcohol solution of a nonvolatile medicine

Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.

(Heraldry) A metal, color, or fur.

(by extension) Any viscous liquid.

To stain or tint with a color.

A wig.

To infuse, as with a quality; impregnate.

(transitive) To convert or process into syrup.

Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.

(transitive) To add syrup to.

(obsolete) A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic. 19

(transitive) To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.

(by extension)

Same as Sirup, Sirupy.

(obsolete)

A thick sweet sticky liquid

Scientific and alchemical senses.

(pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.

A (small) alcoholic drink.

(transitive)

To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.

Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.

(pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.

To have a taint or tinge of some quality.

A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.

A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.

A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.

A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.

To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

A substances that colors metals

An indication that something has been present;

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

(pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution

Fill, as with a certain quality;

Stain or tint with a color;