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gel
noun
    1. A colloid consisting of a solid and a liquid that are dispersed evenly throughout a material and have set to form a jellylike mass, eg gelatine.
    2. Such a substance used in styling the hair or fixing it in place.
      Form: hair gel (also)
    3. In theatre and photographic lighting: a translucent coloured substance, or a sheet of this, used to produce light of different colours.
verb gelled, gelling
    tr & intr
    1. To become or cause something to become a gel.
    2. To style (hair) using gel.
    3. To jell.
Etymology: 19c: from gelatine.




jell
gel
verb, intr jelled, jelling
    1. To become firm; to set.
      Thesaurus: coagulate, congeal, crystallize, condense, set, solidify, thicken, stiffen; Antonym: disintegrate.
    2. colloq
      To take definite shape.
Etymology: 19c: from jelly.



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