we just gelled
we got along well
TRANSLATION
gel = sich gut verstehen gel = Gestalt annehmen gel (chem.) = fest werden --- GOOGLE INDEX gelled: approximately 2,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"This is the first time everything has GELLED - the coaching staff, the players, everything is in place," said Cookey who made her debut in 2004.
(BBC News)
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Our mentoring relationship has GELLED, which is interesting, because at the beginning, I didn't know exactly what I wanted from it.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
(BBC News)
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Our mentoring relationship has GELLED, which is interesting, because at the beginning, I didn't know exactly what I wanted from it.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
Did you
know?
gel
verb
- if two or more people gel, they form a good relationship or become friends
- if an idea or situation gels, it starts to become more clear and fixed
- to change from a liquid into a thick, soft solid
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Gel stems from the French gélatine (17th century), a clear jelly-like substance or fish broth, and from the Italian gelatine/gelata (jelly), which further derives from gelare (to gel) and the Latin gelare (to freeze). This is also the root of the Italian gelato, or ice cream.
Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is credited with creating the term "gel" through his pioneering work in the field of colloid science (colloid is a mixture in which one substance is divided into minute particles and dispersed throughout a second substance). He discovered that certain substances such as glue and gelatine pass through membranes more slowly than others.
Gel is also sometimes written as "jell," which is a back-formation of "jelly," a semi-soft substance that lacks a defined shape and which shakes slightly when it is moved. As a foodstuff, jelly is the American term for jam, a sweet soft food made by cooking fruit with sugar to preserve it so it can be eaten on bread or cakes. Jell-O (also written without the hyphen as Jello) is a trademark for a dessert made from gelatine, sugar and fruit flavouring, which in German is affectionately referred to as Götterspeise.
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SYNONYMS
coalesce, congeal, harden, jell, set, solidify, thicken
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"We gelled from the very first day we met."
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verb
- if two or more people gel, they form a good relationship or become friends
- if an idea or situation gels, it starts to become more clear and fixed
- to change from a liquid into a thick, soft solid
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Gel stems from the French gélatine (17th century), a clear jelly-like substance or fish broth, and from the Italian gelatine/gelata (jelly), which further derives from gelare (to gel) and the Latin gelare (to freeze). This is also the root of the Italian gelato, or ice cream.
Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is credited with creating the term "gel" through his pioneering work in the field of colloid science (colloid is a mixture in which one substance is divided into minute particles and dispersed throughout a second substance). He discovered that certain substances such as glue and gelatine pass through membranes more slowly than others.
Gel is also sometimes written as "jell," which is a back-formation of "jelly," a semi-soft substance that lacks a defined shape and which shakes slightly when it is moved. As a foodstuff, jelly is the American term for jam, a sweet soft food made by cooking fruit with sugar to preserve it so it can be eaten on bread or cakes. Jell-O (also written without the hyphen as Jello) is a trademark for a dessert made from gelatine, sugar and fruit flavouring, which in German is affectionately referred to as Götterspeise.
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SYNONYMS
coalesce, congeal, harden, jell, set, solidify, thicken
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We gelled from the very first day we met."
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Thanks to Urs for suggesting today's word!
