| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb jelly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (jelly) | 1. Make into jelly.[Wordnet]. 2. To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: jellying, jellied, jellies, jellier, jelliers, jellyingly and jelliedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "JELLYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Specialty Definition: jelly
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] The inspissated juice of fruit, boiled with sugar.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: For a woman to dream of making jelly, signifies she will enjoy pleasant reunions with friends. 2: To dream of eating jelly, many pleasant interruptions will take place. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Food & Agriculture | A semi-solid system consisting of a network of solid colloidal aggregates in which liquid is held. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geography | Jelly is geographically located in Liberia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 5.492778 degrees North latitude and 8.712778 degrees West longitude. (references) | ||
| Health | Cocaine. (references) | ||
| Mining | 1: See: carbohumin; vegetable jelly. (references) | 2: See:carbohumin; vegetable jelly. (references) | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (colloquial) Short for gelignite. (references) | 2: [Noun] (UK) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set. (references) | 3: [Noun] (US slang) A large backside, especially a woman's. Check out that girl shaking her jelly!. (references) | 4: [Noun] (US) a sweet gelatinous substance derived from fruit juices and pectin 1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and w:Wilma Lord Perkins revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition - Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass. 1975, Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking 5th revision - Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy. (references) | 5: [Noun] (zoology) Short for jellyfish. (references) | 6: [Noun] Jam that has been sieved to remove pieces of fruit before being allowed to set. (references) | 7: [Verb] To make jelly. (references) | 8: [Verb] To wiggle like jelly. (references) |
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Common Expressions: jelly
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Apple jelly | Jelly made from apple juice. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Calf's-foot jelly | 1: Jelly made from the feet of calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Comb jelly | Biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Crabapple jelly | A tart apple jelly made from crab apples. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Glycerin jelly | A mixture of glycerin and gelatin that is used in histology for mounting specimens. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Grape jelly | Jelly made from grape juice. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Grass jelly | Grass Jelly is a type of food with a jelly-like consistency that is used in China and South-East Asia in drinks and desserts. It is also known as cincau (Malay), leong fun (Cantonese) or liang fen (Mandarin). It is sold in cans or packets in Asian supermarkets. (references) | ||
| Jelly baby | Jelly babies are a type of confectionery that look like little babies in a variety of colours. They are very popular in the United Kingdom. There are currently several companies that make Jelly babies, most predominantly Trebor Bassett (famous for their liquorice allsorts) and also by Rowntree (Nestlé). (references) | ||
| Jelly bag | A bag through which the material for jelly is strained. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly bean | Sugar-glazed jellied candy. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly doughnut | A raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly egg | Sugar-glazed jellied candy. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly fungi | The Class Heterobasidiomycetes or jelly fungi is a paraphyletic group of several fungal orders: Tremellales, Auriculariales, Dacryomycetales. These "mushrooms" are so named because their foliose to irregularly branched fruiting body is, or appears to be, the consistency of jelly. Actually, many are somewhat rubbery and gelatinous. When dried, jelly fungi become hard and shriveled; when exposed to water, they return to their original form. (references) | ||
| Jelly fungus | Any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly mold | A mold for forming jelly in ornamental shapes. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly plant | (Bot.), Australian name of an edible seaweed (Eucheuma speciosum), from which an excellent jelly is made. --J. Smith. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly powder | An explosive, composed of nitroglycerin and collodion cotton; -- so called from its resemblance to calf's-foot jelly. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly Roll Morton | United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly tots | Sugar, Glucose syrup, Fruit juices 10% (Strawberry, Lime, Orange, Lemon, Blackfruit), Modified Starch, Citric acid, Acidity regulator (Trisodium citrate), Acetic acid, Flavouring, Vitamin C, Colours (E124, E110, E133, E160(a)), Antioxidant (E320). (references) | ||
| Mineral jelly | A semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Moon Jelly | Moon Jelly (Aurelia aurita) are the most common Jellyfish species found in the genus Aurelia. Other species found in the genus Aurelia besides A. aurita are: A. labiata, A. limbata, Aurelia sp. They can be found in the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and are common to the waters off California, Japan, the East Coast of the United States as well as Europe. The animal can be large (up to 15cm across), translucent and often considered beautiful for the patterns of color within its body. It feeds by stinging small medusans, plankton and mollusks with its tentacles and bringing them into its body for digestion, but is capable of only limited motion; like other jellies it drifts with the current. (references) | ||
| Petroleum jelly | A semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Petroleum jelly | Petroleum jelly or petrolatum is a byproduct of the refining of petroleum, made from the residue of petroleum distillation left in the still after all the oil has been vaporized. (references) | ||
| Royal jelly | A secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Royal jelly | Royal jelly is a type of bee secretion that aids in the development of immature or young bees. It is secreted by the heads of young workers and used (amongst other substances) to feed the young until they develop to the desired rank. If a queen is desired, the hatchling will receive only royal jelly as its food source, in order that she will become sexually mature and have the fully developed ovaries needed to lay more eggs for the hive. (references) | ||
| Sea jelly | A medusa, or jellyfish. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Star jelly | (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants (Nostoc commune , N. edule , etc.). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Star Jelly | Star Jelly, or Pwdre Ser, is a compound supposedly deposited on the earth during meteor showers. It is described as a foul-smelling, gelatinous substance, which tends to evaporate shortly after having fallen. (references) | ||
| Wharton's jelly | Wharton's jelly is a gelatinous substance within the umbilical cord. Wharton's jelly is a rich source of stem cells. It is named for the English physician and anatomist Thomas Wharton (1614-1673) who first described it in his publication Adenographia, or "The Description of the Glands of the Entire Body", first published in 1656. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: jelly
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Filter tender, jelly | Occupations | Tends control panel that regulates flow of fruit juices through filtering system and cooks juices preparatory to processing into jelly: Depresses button to regulate flow of juice from storage tank, through filter system, into cooking kettle. Turns valves to open supply lines to add specified amount of sugar into kettle and activates heating controls to cool mixture. Turns valves on centrifugal pump to transfer juice from kettles to receiving tanks for processing into jelly. (references) | |
| Fundamental jelly | Mining | Structureless colloidal jelly that forms the base of coals and is assumed to have been produced by the decay of plant materials. See also: carbohumin. (references) | |
| Jelly baby | Health | Amphetamine. (references) | |
| Jelly bean | Food & Agriculture | A sugar-coated candy bean with a gum or jelly center. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Jelly bean | Health | Amphetamine; depressants. (references) | |
| Jelly beans | Health | Crack Cocaine. (references) | |
| Jelly fungus (trembling fungus, tremmellales) | Geology | Any of several fungi in the order Tremellales, which are characterized by gelatinous fruiting bodies. (references) | |
| Jelly Name | Environment | Here you will need to refer the Jellyfish glossary to accurately identify the specific jellyfish that was seen. If you are not sure use the freelance form and give and accurate description and if possible email a picture to dockwatch@disl.org. (references) | |
| Jelly Pardons | Literature | When Thomas Cromwell was a clerk in the English factory at Antwerp, two of his fellow-countrymen from Boston (Lincolnshire) consulted with him as to the best means of getting the pardons renewed for the repair of Boston harbour. Cromwell knowing that Pope Julius was very fond of dainties, provided for him some exquisite jelly, and told his Holiness that only royalty ever ate it in England. The Pope was so pleased with the delicacy that he signed the pardons, on condition of having the recipe of the jelly. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Like nailing jelly to a tree | Computing | Like nailing jelly to a tree adj. Used to describe a task thought to be impossible, esp. one in which the difficulty arises from poor specification or inherent slipperiness in the problem domain. "Trying to display the `prettiest' arrangement of nodes and arcs that diagrams a given graph is like nailing jelly to a tree, because nobody's sure what `prettiest' means algorithmically." Hacker use of this term may recall mainstream slang originated early in the 20th century by President Theodore Roosevelt. There is a legend that, weary of inconclusive talks with Colombia over the right to dig a canal through its then-province Panama, he remarked, "Negotiating with those pirates is like trying to nail currant jelly to the wall." Roosevelt's government subsequently encouraged the anti-Colombian insurgency that created the nation of Panama. Source: Jargon File.. | |
| Nailing jelly | Computing | Nailing jelly vi. See like nailing jelly to a tree. Source: Jargon File.. | |
| Nailing jelly | Computing | Nailing jelly See like nailing jelly to a tree. [Jargon File]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Petroleum jelly | Chemical Industry | It is white, yellowish or dark-brown in color; it is obtained from the residues of the distillation of certain crude petroleum oils, or by mixing fairly high viscosity petroleum oils with the such residues or by mixing paraffin wax or ceresin with a sufficiently refined mineral oil. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Petroleum Jelly | Energy | A semi-solid oily product produced from de-waxing lubricating oil base stocks. (references) | |
| Royal jelly | Biology & Biotechnology | A highly nutritious secretion of the honeybee that is fed to the very young larvae. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Vegetable jelly | Mining | Same as fundamental jelly, carbohumin, etc. Syn: jelly. (references) | |
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