Gel vs Cel - What's the difference?
gel | cel |
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
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, title= Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
To become a gel.
To develop a rapport.
A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 22, author=Michael Hirschorn, title=Success Story 2, work=New York Times
, passage=After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney , then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation.}}
As an initialism gel
is lari, the currency used in georgia.As a verb cel is
to open up, undo.gel
English
(wikipedia gel)Etymology 1
Coined by in the mid 19th century as a clipping of (gelatin), from (etyl)Noun
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
Derived terms
* aerogel * hair gel * hydrogel * shower gel * silica gel * xerogelSee also
For more information on classification of colloids, see Wikipedia article on (colloid)sVerb
(gell)See also
* aerosol * colloid * emulsion * foam * solEtymology 2
Imitative of upper-class British pronunciation of (girl).Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----cel
English
Alternative forms
* cellNoun
(en noun)citation