JELLY (jellied)

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Irregular inflected form: jellied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does jelly mean? 

• JELLY (noun)
  The noun JELLY has 3 senses:

1. an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods

2. a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit

3. any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin

  Familiarity information: JELLY used as a noun is uncommon.

• JELLY (verb)
  The verb JELLY has 1 sense:

1. make into jelly

  Familiarity information: JELLY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JELLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

gelatin; jelly

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 2

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 3

Meaning:

Any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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)

• JELLY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make into jelly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

jellify; jelly

Context example:

jellify a liquid

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 

I won't see him, and you two can laugh at me and my jelly as much as you like.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The jelly is the bee equivalent of mother’s milk: a secretion used to provide nutrition to worker and queen bee larvae.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)

The structural matrix of the jelly contains high levels of liquid.

(Jelly Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Petroleum jelly is used on the skin to prevent drying and to help heal scrapes and burns.

(Petroleum jelly, NCI Dictionary)

Fruit of the Cranberry plant, a Native American wetland plant, can be consumed whole or made into food products such as jellies and juices.

(Cranberry, NCI Thesaurus)

FUS proteins can change back and forth from small liquid droplets (resembling oil droplets in water) to small gels (like jelly) inside nerve cells.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)

Jelly like material formed by the coagulation of a colloidal liquid.

(Gel, NCI Thesaurus)

In March 2017, using a combination of genetically-modified mouse ESCs and TSCs, together with a 3D ‘jelly’ scaffold known as an extracellular matrix, the researchers were able to grow a structure capable of assembling itself and whose development and architecture very closely resembled the natural embryo.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)

Also called petroleum jelly.

(Petrolatum, NCI Dictionary)

A pair of hot roast fowls—from the pastry-cook's; a dish of stewed beef, with vegetables—from the pastry-cook's; two little corner things, as a raised pie and a dish of kidneys—from the pastrycook's; a tart, and (if I liked) a shape of jelly—from the pastrycook's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)