Gem vs Gel - What's the difference?
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A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
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(figuratively) any precious or highly valued thing or person
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
(obsolete) a gemma or leaf-bud
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a type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata
(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
* {{quote-book, year=1827, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven
* {{quote-book, year=1872, author=J. Fenimore Cooper, title=The Bravo, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=John Freeman, title=Poems New and Old, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The rain Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again As I brushed past, and gemmed the window pane. }}
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.
As an initialism gel is
lari, the currency used in georgia.gem
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(gemstone)Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
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- She's an absolute gem .
- a gem of wit
- From the joints of thy prolific stem / A swelling knot is raised called a gem .
Synonyms
* (precious stone) gemstone, jewel, precious stone; see alsoVerb
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(wikipedia gel)Etymology 1
Coined by in the mid 19th century as a clipping of (gelatin), from (etyl)Noun
Charles T. Ambrose
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