Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To become firm or gelatinous; congeal.
- intransitive verb To take shape or become clear; crystallize.
- intransitive verb To cause to become firm or gelatinous.
- intransitive verb To cause to take shape; make clear and definite; crystallize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To assume the consistence of jelly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb colloq. To jelly.
- intransitive verb To take on a more concrete or substantial form; -- of ideas, plans, programs, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
jelly orgel - verb To
gel
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become gelatinous
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He was preaching rainbow for decades before Obama made the idea jell politically.
Danny Schechter: What is The King-Obama Lineage? Waiting For Barack, pt.3 2009
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The film helped the already-close family "jell," says Mr. Tan, who recounts in the film how his mother with "movie star" looks nursed him back to health about 20 years ago when he fell ill in his final year of law school.
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There will be no tears shed over jelly that will not "jell" if all young housewives will learn the simple test for pectin; to find out whether a juice contains pectin or not is
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
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"You may 'jell' all you like on that score," Jack consented.
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island Margaret Penrose
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It never fails to "jell," which point is the cause of so much anxiety to amateur jelly-makers.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various
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But there were always emergencies, and the Alcott girls had to know what to put on a black-and-blue spot, and why the jelly failed to "jell," and how to hang a skirt, and bake a cake, and iron a table-cloth.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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"Mebbe she's makin 'jell'," suggested Hannah Sophia.
The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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This isn't a "jell" year for us because we know we have a five-year, or six-year deal.
SLAM Online 2010
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"I think if you look at the way the Washington Redskin (s) played in some of the games toward the end of the season, they started to kind of jell together, have that chemistry, they started to play together and they played in a lot of close games.
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But Tohoku Electric didn't formally apply to build a reactor until a decade later, by which time local opposition began to jell despite ¥3.1 billion in "cooperation funds" given to Maki by the utility.
A Nuclear-Free Town Fades Away in Japan Chester Dawson 2012
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