Jelly vs Gel - What's the difference?
jelly | gel |
(New Zealand, Australia, British) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.
(label) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.
* 1945 , (Fannie Merritt Farmer) and (Wilma Lord Perkins) revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book , Eighth edition:
* 1975 , and (Marion Rombauer Becker), The Joy of Cooking , 5th revision:
A similar dish made with meat.
(zoology)
A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 25:
(US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.
* 2001 , (w, Destiny's Child), “(Bootylicious)” (song)
* 2001 , George Dell, Dance Unto the Lord ,
(colloquial)
(colloquial) A jelly shoe.
* 2006 , David L. Marcus, What It Takes to Pull Me Through :
To wiggle like jelly.
To make jelly.
(slang) Jealous.
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1000 English basic words
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 nouns the difference between jelly and gel
is that jelly is a dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set while gel is a semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.As verbs the difference between jelly and gel
is that jelly is to wiggle like jelly while gel is to apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).As an adjective jelly
is jealous.jelly
English
(wikipedia jelly)Alternative forms
* gelly (obsolete)Etymology 1
(etyl) gelee, from .Noun
- Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass.
- Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy.
- calf's-foot jelly
- ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He?s got a jelly there.’
- I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
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- At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.
- Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes
Synonyms
* (dessert made by boiling gelatin) (US) jello, Jell-O * (fruit preserve) jam, marmaladeDerived terms
* comb jelly * jellification * jellify * jelly baby * jelly bean * jelly bracelet * jellyfish * jellylike * royal jellyVerb
Etymology 2
From jealous by shortening.Adjective
(en adjective)Exchange smiles, not saliva", The Banner (Grand Blanc High School), Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2011, page 17:
- "I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."
gel
English
(wikipedia gel)Etymology 1
Coined by in the mid 19th century as a clipping of (gelatin), from (etyl)Noun
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