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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gel
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shower gel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agarose
▪ This is then electrophoresed on an agarose gel and transferred to nitrocellulose.
▪ The samples analyzed on a 1.2% agarose gel, the fragments purified and sequenced.
▪ The amplified products were electrophoresed through a 1.5% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide and viewed under ultraviolet light.
▪ Five µl aliquots were resolved on a 1.3% agarose gel.
▪ The samples were resolved on a 0.7% agarose gel migrated at 4°C at 40 volts.
▪ Oligonucleotides were radioactively labelled, complexed with F9 nuclear proteins and separated by agarose gel electrophoresis.
▪ Complexes were separated by non-denaturing agarose gel electrophoresis, dried and autoradiographed.
▪ The final product was run in 1% agarose gel and stained with ethidium bromide.
electrophoresis
▪ Camlab has announced a new ready to use system for discontinuous, denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of proteins.
▪ Agarose gel electrophoresis, ribonucleic acid transfer, and hybridisation of blots were performed by standard techniques.
▪ After 10 minutes, the reactions were stopped and the transcripts produced analyzed by primer extension, polyacrylamide-urea gel electrophoresis and autoradiography.
▪ The purity of the subfractions was checked by aluminium lactate starch gel electrophoresis.
▪ The reaction was then stopped, and the transcripts produced analyzed by primer extension and detected by polyacrylamide-urea gel electrophoresis and autoradiography.
▪ Oligonucleotides were radioactively labelled, complexed with F9 nuclear proteins and separated by agarose gel electrophoresis.
▪ The double-stranded oligonucleotide was then purified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
▪ Complexes were separated by non-denaturing agarose gel electrophoresis, dried and autoradiographed.
polyacrylamide
▪ The samples were then fractionated on a 6% denaturing polyacrylamide gel.
▪ Camlab has announced a new ready to use system for discontinuous, denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of proteins.
▪ Reaction mixtures were subjected to electrophoresis through polyacrylamide gel under non-denaturing conditions.
▪ The double-stranded oligonucleotide was then purified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
▪ Protein-DNA complexes were resolved on a polyacrylamide gel and the gel dried and autoradiographed.
retardation
▪ Preparation of nuclei and gel retardation assays.
▪ FIG. 2 Results of gel retardation assays using several of the mutant MetJ repressors.
▪ Moreover, a prominent feature in the gel retardation experiments is the presence of a smear between the two well-defined bands.
shower
▪ Do you know that this unique shower gel actually leaves your skin up to 28% smoother?
▪ And she had been special, Ruth gritted to herself as she rubbed her body liberally with shower gel.
▪ Now he is more likely to ask for a body spray or shower gel.
silica
▪ For example, ethanol can be separated from a liquid mixture of ethanol and water by shaking the mixture with silica gel.
▪ The silica gel removes the water.
■ VERB
electrophoresed
▪ This is then electrophoresed on an agarose gel and transferred to nitrocellulose.
▪ Samples were electrophoresed on 0.8% agarose gels and the size fractionated products transferred to nylon membranes using standard procedures.
separate
▪ Complexes were separated by non-denaturing agarose gel electrophoresis, dried and autoradiographed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a gel toothpaste
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Agar gel and cellulose acetate are the more commonly used media in the routine clinical laboratory. 189.
▪ Fixed parts should be painted liberally with cold oven cleaner gel and left to stand.
▪ For example, ethanol can be separated from a liquid mixture of ethanol and water by shaking the mixture with silica gel.
▪ Good news for diaphragm users fed up with slippery spermicidal gel.
▪ It is formulated as an attractive gel with green microparticles suspended inside.
▪ Like pectin, psyllium forms a gel which is not digested or absorbed, thereby increasing the viscosity of the meal.
▪ Support media that may be used for electrophoretic separations include agar gel, starch gel, cellulose acetate, and acrylamide.
▪ The samples were then fractionated on a 6% denaturing polyacrylamide gel.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a handsome man with short, gelled hair
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▪ Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval.
▪ Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981.
▪ I am very pleased with how the group is gelling.
▪ They appear to gel as a group, with only the odd complaint about sharing or taking turns.
▪ We seem to be working really well as a unit and things really gel when we write together.
III.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Agar gel and cellulose acetate are the more commonly used media in the routine clinical laboratory. 189.
▪ Fixed parts should be painted liberally with cold oven cleaner gel and left to stand.
▪ For example, ethanol can be separated from a liquid mixture of ethanol and water by shaking the mixture with silica gel.
▪ Good news for diaphragm users fed up with slippery spermicidal gel.
▪ It is formulated as an attractive gel with green microparticles suspended inside.
▪ Like pectin, psyllium forms a gel which is not digested or absorbed, thereby increasing the viscosity of the meal.
▪ Support media that may be used for electrophoretic separations include agar gel, starch gel, cellulose acetate, and acrylamide.
▪ The samples were then fractionated on a 6% denaturing polyacrylamide gel.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gel

1899, as a chemical term, short for gelatin and perhaps influenced by jell. The invention of this word is credited to Scottish chemist Thomas Graham (1805-1869). Hair-styling sense is from 1958. The verb meaning "to become a gel" is attested by 1902; figurative sense is from 1958. Related: Gelled; gelling.

Wiktionary
gel

Etymology 1 n. A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). 2 (context intransitive English) To become a gel. 3 (context intransitive English) To develop a rapport. Etymology 2

n. (context British English) A girl.

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gel

  1. v. become a gel; "The solid, when heated, gelled"

  2. apply a styling gel to; "she mousses her hair" [syn: mousse]

  3. [also: gelling, gelled]

gel

  1. n. a colloid in a more solid form than a sol [syn: colloidal gel]

  2. a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects [syn: gelatin]

  3. [also: gelling, gelled]

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Gel

A gel is a solid jelly-like material that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Gels are defined as a substantially dilute cross-linked system, which exhibits no flow when in the steady-state. By weight, gels are mostly liquid, yet they behave like solids due to a three-dimensional cross-linked network within the liquid. It is the crosslinking within the fluid that gives a gel its structure (hardness) and contributes to the adhesive stick ( tack). In this way gels are a dispersion of molecules of a liquid within a solid in which the solid is the continuous phase and the liquid is the discontinuous phase. The word gel was coined by 19th-century Scottish chemist Thomas Graham by clipping from gelatine.

Gel (disambiguation)

A gel is a complex solid but fluid substance with liquid-like properties.

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Usage examples of "gel".

Carl was bent over the benchtop in his lab, carefully pi petting a sucrose-laden DNA solution tinted with a blue indicator dye into a row of tiny slots in an agarose gel.

To Softly all motion appeared to be taking place in an aneroid medium, some kind of thick gel.

Gelta and Argan both fell silent with slightly apprehensive expressions.

Eliar dealt with Pekhal in Wekti, Andine outwitted Gelta in Treborea, and Leitha and Bheid eliminated Argan and Koman in Perquaine.

The weight hit me like a hammer and I collapsed back into the floatation gel.

Not warehouse dust, or lab dust, or the smells of fungal gels or spores.

Which keeps the oil inside the tank, and even if the ship breaks up altogether the gelled oil floats in big chunks that can easily be scooped up.

So City Councilman Ladrone has this plan requiring oil to be gelled as a routine step in transporting it by sea to refineries, not just as an emergency response in case a tanker cracks open.

A small paper cup, a pin, a jar of cold cream, Witch Hazel, and a tube of gelled rouge.

The man was younger than I expected, with black hair that had been gelled, spiked, and gathered from his forehead with an elastic headband.

He was standing straighter, his head full of carefully combed hair gelled into the familiar style.

The pool of crimson crept across the floorboards, gelling in the cold morning air.

To the Gel daThae they are the Children of the Gods, Graekaebi Zo Uhmveo, while they call themselves, quite simply, Impar, the People.

I was staring was a klieg, a huge theatrical lamp with a golden gel on its face, and the damned thing was directly in my eyes.

As the potato cools to room temperature, the pectic cement hardens again, and many more cells break open when you mash them, spilling out their sticky starchy gel.