Definitions for gelatin

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gelatin gel·a·tin

Spelling: [jel-uh-tn]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛl ə tn/

Gelatin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in gelatin (aegilnt).

Definitions for gelatin

noun

1. a nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like.
2. any of various similar substances, as vegetable gelatin.
3. a preparation or product in which such an animal or vegetable substance is the essential constituent.
4. an edible jelly made of this substance.
5. Also called gelatin slide. Theater. a thin sheet made of translucent gelatin colored with an aniline dye, placed over stage lights, and used as a color medium in obtaining lighting effects.

Origin of gelatin

1790-1800; French gélatine Medieval Latin gelātina, equivalent to Latin gelāt(us) frozen, thickened, past participle of gelāre (gel- freeze + -ātus Examples for gelatin

Meanwhile, bloom five sheets of gelatin in a bowl of warm water.

Make the soaking syrup by mixing the coffee, sugar, and gelatin with a wire whisk.

Reduce the heat again, this time to low, and add the gelatin.

Medicinal substances may be incorporated with the gelatin mixture.

From the bone and also from the connective tissue, gelatin is dissolved in cooking.

He heated some oil, stirred in a few sheets of gelatin, let the mixture cool in a baking dish and then sliced it into squares.

We had tombstone for dessert (milk and gelatin flavored with vanilla).

After all, the brain is as soft as gelatin, and the body can only do so much to protect it.

Add the cold water to the gelatin, and let it stand for five minutes.

Tablets of gelatin are impregnated with sulphate of atropia, as above.