jelly
/'dʤeli/ Cách viết khác : (jell) /dʤel/
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Definition
Noun:
- A soft, semi-solid food substance: A food preparation with a soft, elastic consistency, typically made by cooling a liquid containing gelatin or pectin until it sets. It is often sweet and fruit-flavored.
- Any gelatinous substance: Any substance with a similar soft, quivering, semi-solid consistency.
Verb:
- To congeal into a jelly-like state: To become or cause a liquid to become a jelly; to set or solidify into a gelatinous mass.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- She spread grape jelly on her toast.
- The dessert was a raspberry jelly served with cream.
- The medicine had the consistency of a thick jelly.
Verb:
- The fruit juice will jelly if you add pectin and let it cool.
- The chef jellied the consommé to make an aspic.
Advanced Usage
- Technical/Culinary Use: In cooking, "to jelly" often refers to the process of setting a liquid using agents like gelatin, agar-agar, or pectin.
- The goal is to jelly the broth without making it too firm.
Variants and Related Words
- Jell (verb): An informal variant meaning to set or congeal, or metaphorically, for a plan or idea to take definite form.
- Our plans for the event finally jelled.
- Jellied (adjective): Describes food that has been prepared or set in jelly.
- jellied eels
- Jelly-like (adjective): Having the texture or appearance of jelly.
- Jellify (verb): A more formal synonym meaning to make into or become jelly.
Synonyms
- Gelatin (noun): Specifically refers to the protein substance used to make jellies.
- Aspic (noun): A savory jelly made with meat stock.
- Preserve (noun): A general term for fruit preserved with sugar, which includes jams and jellies. (Note: A jelly is a specific type of clear preserve without fruit pulp.)
- Congeal (verb): To change from a fluid to a solid state, often used for fats or blood as well as foods.
Related Phrases
- Jelly bean: A small bean-shaped sugar candy with a hard shell and gelatinous center.
- Jellyfish: A marine animal with a soft, gelatinous bell and trailing tentacles.
Idioms
- To shake like a jelly: To tremble violently from fear or cold.
- He was shaking like a jelly before his speech.
- To turn to jelly: (Of legs, knees) to become weak and unable to support one, typically due to fear or shock.
- When I heard the noise, my legs turned to jelly.
Noun
- any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin
- a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit
- an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods
Verb
- make into jelly
- jellify a liquid