Jellify vs Curdle - What's the difference?
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(ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
(ambitransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
* 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly
* 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Jellify is a related term of curdle.
In lang=en terms the difference between jellify and curdle
is that jellify is to make into a jelly while curdle is to cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly.As verbs the difference between jellify and curdle
is that jellify is (dated|intransitive) to form a jelly; to gel while curdle is (ambitransitive) to form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds (usually said of milk).curdle
English
Verb
(curdl)- Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
- "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle , "beware of to-morrow!"
- It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'