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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jelly
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
jelly baby
jelly bean
jelly roll
petroleum jelly
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
royal
▪ He added pumpkin-seed oil, ginseng, royal jelly and a herbal complex to boost his libido.
▪ She was eating the royal jelly.
▪ Below: royal jelly - myth or medicine?
■ NOUN
bean
▪ Munching blue and white jelly beans we all confessed the holidays had done us in.
▪ Stark Nude had been an angelic sprite of a girl who in my mind will for ever be 6 and eating jelly beans.
▪ A consultant had urged the executives to view Texaco as a jar of different-colored jelly beans, each one unique and valuable.
▪ He often ran errands for Fong in return for jelly beans or small cubes of greasy homemade soap.
▪ Getting his green jelly bean fix, he thought.
petroleum
▪ Take any prescribed drugs with your breakfast and apply the plasters, petroleum jelly etc to help you on your way.
▪ Have you rubbed on petroleum jelly or applied any necessary plasters?
▪ A little oil or petroleum jelly on the thread will help.
■ VERB
eat
▪ I did eat jelly with chopsticks - as I said!
▪ Stark Nude had been an angelic sprite of a girl who in my mind will for ever be 6 and eating jelly beans.
▪ They eat jelly, but the word most often used is Jello, which is a trade name and much protected.
▪ She was eating the royal jelly.
feel
▪ Cook it a little longer until you feel the jelly has set; it should be thick and fairly cohesive.
▪ My legs, by now, feel like jelly.
▪ She stood up, instructed her legs to stop feeling like jelly, and set off after the machine.
make
▪ Rhubarb is perfect with rich meats and makes superb jams, jellies, puddings and pies.
▪ A sauce is then made of currant jelly, Worcestershire and hot sauces, and the duck essence from the press.
▪ Use a pint of stewed apple instead of water when making apricot jelly.
▪ Leave to cool. Make up the jelly according to the instructions.
▪ They can then be eaten with sugar and cream or used for making medlar jelly, which is delicious with game.
▪ Your fingers look as if they're made of jelly. where's the precision gone?
turn
▪ I do feel as if my hands have turned to jelly.
▪ Eyes that turned her insides to jelly, scrambled her mind, made her feel dumb and stupid and childish.
▪ But, though she knew that, she couldn't help it, her insides had turned to jelly.
▪ How can we hope to face him without turning to jelly at the thought of what he wants to do to us?
▪ Legs turn to jelly at the thought of scaling those awful precipices; mine do, anyway.
▪ With legs slowly turning to jelly, I skied down hard, icy snow, followed by spring snow, then slush.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ petroleum jelly
▪ The frogs' eggs are in a protective jelly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Burning lumps of phosphorus jelly were scattered amongst the containers, forming a foreground that was blinding.
▪ Denver dipped a bit of bread into the jelly.
▪ He once paid his sister $ 300 to make him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
▪ Instead, a trap baited with jelly and syrup was rigged close to the fresher circumference of tracks.
▪ The jelly was sweet and the ants ate it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jelly

Jam \Jam\, n. [Prob. fr. jam, v.; but cf. also Ar. jamad ice, jelly, j[=a]mid congealed, jamd congelation, ice.] A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; also called jelly; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.

Jam nut. See Check nut, under Check.

Jam weld (Forging), a butt weld. See under Butt.

jelly

jelly \jel"ly\, n.; pl. Jellies. [ Formerly gelly, gely, F. gel['e]e jelly, frost, fr. geler to freeze. L. gelare; akin to gelu frost. See Gelid.]

  1. Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.

  2. The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.

    Jelly bag, a bag through which the material for jelly is strained.

    Jelly mold, a mold for forming jelly in ornamental shapes.

    Jelly plant (Bot.), Australian name of an edible seaweed ( Eucheuma speciosum), from which an excellent jelly is made.
    --J. Smith.

    Jelly powder, an explosive, composed of nitroglycerin and collodion cotton; -- so called from its resemblance to calf's-foot jelly.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jelly

late 14c., from Old French gelee "a frost; jelly," noun use of fem. past participle of geler "congeal," from Latin gelare "to freeze," from gelu "frost" (see cold (adj.)).

jelly

c.1600, from jelly (n.). Related: Jellied; jellying.

Wiktionary
jelly

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context New Zealand Australia British English) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set. 2 (label en North America) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. 3 A similar dish made with meat. 4 (context zoology English) (short for jellyfish English) 5 (context slang now rare English) A pretty girl; a girlfriend. 6 (context US slang English) A large backside, especially a woman's. 7 (context colloquial English) (short for gelignite English) 8 (context colloquial English) A jelly shoe. vb. 1 To wiggle like jelly. 2 To make jelly. Etymology 2

  1. (context slang English) jealous.

WordNet
jelly
  1. v. make into jelly; "jellify a liquid" [syn: jellify]

  2. [also: jellied]

jelly
  1. n. a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit

  2. an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods [syn: gelatin]

  3. a substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods

  4. [also: jellied]

Wikipedia
Jelly (Chinese singer)

Jelly (赵美彤) is a Chinese singer. Her debut single, "I'm Not A Bad Girl", was released on 20 December 2009.

Jelly

Jelly may refer to:

Objects:

  • Jelly (fruit preserves) , a clear or translucent fruit spread or preserve
  • Gelatin, a translucent substance extracted from the collagen inside animals' connective tissue, made from bones and pig skin
  • Gelatin dessert, referred to as jelly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries
  • Gelignite, also known as blasting jelly or simply jelly
  • Temazepam, a powerful hypnotic drug, street name "Jellies"
  • Jellyfish, also known as jellies
  • Jelly shoes, shoes made from semi-transparent PVC plastic
  • Petroleum jelly, a topical ointment
  • Royal jelly, a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, as well as adult queen bees

In entertainment:

  • The Jellys, an English punk/pop band
  • "Jelly" (song) (2006), by Japanese electronic duo Capsule
  • Mr. Jelly, title character of the novel Mr. Jelly, in the Mr. Men children's book series
  • Shadowmoor, a Magic: the Gathering expansion set, codenamed "Jelly" in development

As a name:

  • Jelly (name), a list of people and one fictional character with the given name, surname or nickname

Other uses:

  • Jelly (app), an app, and the company behind it (founded by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone)
  • Apache Jelly, a Java and XML based scripting and processing engine for turning XML into executable code
  • An informal, temporary coworking gathering, also called "jellies"
  • A slang term for jealous
Jelly (song)

"Jelly" is the sixth analog single by Japanese electronica band Capsule. It was released on April 19, 2006, as a single for their seventh album Fruits Clipper. "Jelly" was first found as a bonus track on the album L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer if purchased from iTunes. An album-mix of "Jelly" and "CrazEEE Skyhopper" were later added to Fruits Clipper, while "Seismic Charge" was available as a remixed bonus track if purchased from iTunes. A remixed version of "Jelly" was featured on their album Capsule Rmx.

Jelly (app)

Jelly is an app (currently available on iOS and Android) that serves as a Q&A platform, created by a company of the same name led by Biz Stone, one of Twitter's co-founders. It differentiates itself from other Q&A platforms such as Quora and ChaCha by relying on visual imagery to steer people to getting better answers from within and outside their social networks. In particular, it encourages people to use photos to ask questions.

Jelly (name)

Jelly is a given name, surname and nickname. It may refer to:

Given name:

  • Jelly d'Arányi (1893–1966), Hungarian violinist
  • Jelly Selau (born 1983), Tuvaluan footballer

Surname:

  • David Jelly (1847–1911), Canadian politician
  • Ted Jelly (born 1921), English former footballer
  • William Jelly (1835–1900), Canadian politician

Nickname:

  • Floyd Jelly Gardner (1895-1977), American baseball player in the Negro Leagues
  • Norman Jackson (baseball) (1909-1980), American baseball player in the Negro Leagues
  • Frank Nash (1887-1933), American bank robber
  • Olan Jelly Taylor (1910-1976), American baseball player in the Negro Leagues
  • Sergeant Jelal, a character in the novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Jack "Jelly" Kelly, A mountain man from Maigh Cuilinn
  • Jelle "Jelly" van vucht, a famous YouTube gamer

Usage examples of "jelly".

The food industry used thin agarose as an ingredient stablizer to make jelly, ice cream, whipped desserts, and other products.

When set, with a hot spoon scoop out the aspic from the centre of each mould and fill in the space with a mixture of the vegetables and jelly mayonnaise, leaving an open space at the top to be filled with half-set aspic.

Dip into a little aspic jelly or melted gelatine and arrange the quarters in the form of a circle, with the yolks outside.

When the sauce has set, brush over the medallions with aspic jelly, cold but not set.

The seasoning may be varied by using one teaspoon of curry powder, a few grains of cayenne or half a tumbler of currant jelly and salt to taste.

His flesh turns to viscid, transparent jelly that drifts away in green mist, unveiling a monster black centipede.

Luck was with her, and she was able to pick up what she needed without having to speak with anyone except Peg Drucker at the register, who got so rattled she double-scanned the grape jelly, and Cubby Bowmar, who caught up with her while Peg was bagging and revealed a gaping hole where his right canine tooth had once been.

The cubozoan cocktail reminds him of fruit jelly drinks in a hot Hong Kong summer.

Beyond the boundaries of her place lay the cutlery to be shared: the suckett forks, condiment spoons, Sugar shells, mote spoons, pickle forks, butter picks, nut picks, cheese scoops, horseradish spoons, and various others, not to be confused with the soup ladles, fish slicers, jelly servers, snuff spoons, and wick scissors to be wielded by the servants.

But apparently everybody on OB was busy and I was the only one stuffing my mouth with a jelly donut when the call came down that you all needed some help in your unit.

Boil parchment slips or cuttings of glove leather, in water till it forms a size, which, when cool, becomes of the consistence of jelly, then, having blackened an earthern plate, by holding it over the flame of a candle, mix up with a camel hair pencil, the fine lamp-black thus obtained, with some of the above size, while the plate is still warm.

The first hit one of the faceted eyes, driving deep to release a flood of oozing jelly.

He stopped this quiet man, going quietly home to his midday meal, attacked him, beat down his feeble defences, broke his arm, felled him, and smashed his head to a jelly.

Mix well, turn onto floured board, roll out one-half inch thick, cover with the apple and roll up like a jelly roll.

At the moment, as you are aware, Gussie is a mere jelly when in the presence.