gel

  • 11gel — (n.) 1899, as a chemical term, short for GELATIN (Cf. 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 …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 12gel — |é| s. m. 1.  [Física, Química] Substância gelatinosa formada pela coagulação de um líquido coloidal. 2.  [Física, Química] Precipitado gelatinoso. • Plural: geles ou géis.   ‣ Etimologia: inglês gel …

    Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • 13gel — / dʒɛl/ [dalle prime lettere dell ingl. gel(atin)] s. m. (per capelli) gommina, gelatina CFR. brillantina …

    Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • 14gel- Ⅰ — *gel germ., Verb: nhd. schneiden; ne. cut (Verb); Hinweis: s. *gelma , *gelþō; Etymologie: idg. *g̑ʰel (2), Verb, schneiden, Pokorny 434; Literatur: Falk/Torp 130 …

    Germanisches Wörterbuch

  • 15gel — (De gelatina). 1. m. Estado que adopta una materia en dispersión coloidal cuando flocula o se coagula. 2. Producto cosmético en estado de gel …

    Diccionario de la lengua española

  • 16gel(ǝ)-3 —     gel(ǝ) 3     English meaning: cold     Deutsche Übersetzung: “kalt, frieren”     Material: Lat. gelū (also gelus, ūs and gelum, ī) “coldness, frost”, gelidus “cold”, gelō, üre “ congeal, freeze “; Osc. γελαν “πάχνην” (Steph. Byz.); Gk.… …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

  • 17gel — [jel] n. [< GELATIN] 1. a colloidal form of matter characterized by a jellylike texture, usually formed by cooling a colloidal solution into a solid or semisolid phase: cf. SOL3, FOAM (sense 4) 2. any of various jellylike preparations used to… …

    English World dictionary

  • 18gel´id|ly — gel|id «JEHL ihd», adjective. cold as ice; frosty; frozen: »Figurative. a man of gelid reserve who had few intimates (New Yorker). SYNONYM(S): icy, glacl, frigid. ╂[< Latin gelidus < gelū frost, ice] –gel´id|ly, adverb …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 19gel|id — «JEHL ihd», adjective. cold as ice; frosty; frozen: »Figurative. a man of gelid reserve who had few intimates (New Yorker). SYNONYM(S): icy, glacl, frigid. ╂[< Latin gelidus < gelū frost, ice] –gel´id|ly, adverb …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 20Gel — Gel, s. Sol …

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