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JELLY
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Irregular inflected form: jellied
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("jelly" is a kind of...):
conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves (fruit preserved by cooking with sugar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jelly"):
apple jelly (jelly made from apple juice)
grape jelly (jelly made from grape juice)
Derivation:
jellify (make into jelly)
jellify (become jelly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods
Synonyms:
gelatin; jelly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("jelly" is a kind of...):
dainty; delicacy; goody; kickshaw; treat (something considered choice to eat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jelly"):
calf's-foot jelly (a savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet)
gelatin dessert (jellied dessert made with gelatin and fruit juice or water)
aspic (savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables)
Derivation:
jellify (make into jelly)
jellify (become jelly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("jelly" is a kind of...):
substance (a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jelly"):
mineral jelly; petrolatum; petroleum jelly (a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication)
Derivation:
jellify (make into jelly)
jellify (become jelly)
jelly (make into jelly)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make into jelly
Example:
jellify a liquid
Synonyms:
jellify; jelly
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "jelly" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
jelly (any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin)
Context examples:
Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line—that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen—that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Womble stopped a moment to steady his voice and control himself. Then he spoke slowly, in a low, tense voice. Look here, Messner, if you refuse to get out, I'll thrash you. This isn't California. I'll beat you to a jelly with my two fists.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I remember, later in the voyage, seeing Kerfoot, another of the hunters, lose a finger by having it smashed to a jelly; and he did not even murmur or change the expression on his face.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was only better than Mrs. Norris's sharp answers would have been; but she being gone home with all the supernumerary jellies to nurse a sick maid, there was peace and good-humour in their little party, though it could not boast much beside.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Roasted peacocks, with the feathers all carefully replaced, so that the bird lay upon the dish even as it had strutted in life, boars' heads with the tusks gilded and the mouth lined with silver foil, jellies in the shape of the Twelve Apostles, and a great pasty which formed an exact model of the king's new castle at Windsor—these were a few of the strange dishes which faced him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Within the endocardium, specific inductive events appear to activate NF-ATc: it is localized to the nucleus only in endocardial cells that are adjacent to the interface with the cardiac jelly and myocardium, which are thought to give the inductive stimulus to the valve primordia.
(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
It was too bad to laugh at the poor little jelly pots.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The dietary RNA is then secreted with the jelly and taken-up by larvae fed on the jelly.
(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)
So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Researchers have discovered that honey bees are able to share immunity with other bees and to their offspring in a hive by transmitting RNA ‘vaccines’ through royal jelly and worker jelly.
(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)
