Definitions for Gel

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Gel gel

Spelling: [jel]

IPA: /dʒɛl/

Gel is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Gel (egl).

Definitions for Gel

noun

1. Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
2. Theater. gelatin (def 5).
3. Biochemistry. a semirigid polymer, as agarose, starch, cellulose acetate, or polyacrylamide, cast into slabs or cylinders for the electrophoretic separation of proteins and nucleic acids.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or become a gel.
2. jell (def 2).

Origin of Gel

First recorded in 1895-1900; shortening of gelatin

Examples for Gel

Do you think I'm not doing my best for you, gel—my very best?

The gel wobbled past him, slumped suddenly, flowed under a door.

You shall read it aloud to me, my gel—or, better still, I'll read it to you.

But show me the daughter that could do better for herself than my gel's father has done for her.

A puff of wind and a slant of rain, as I've been saying to my gel here.

My stranger-friend left the room to let the gel mask sit on my face for a bit.

Wilkinson says the gel combats the “I had a run-in with a can of paint” defense.

I'm soory fur the gel, but ef she had the locket, of course she tuk the locket.

The first step is to gel your hair and hit the gym to work on your fitness.

But waiting for a draft-Clark movement to gel turned out to be problematic.