gel

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gel2 verb (gelled, gelling)

1 SURE (also jell especially American EnglishAmE) [intransitiveI] if a thought, plan etc gels, it becomes clearer or more definite 〔想法、计划等〕成形，变明确

Don’t start writing until the idea has gelled in your mind.

脑子里有了明确的想法后再动笔写。

2 UNITE (also jell especially American EnglishAmE) [intransitiveI] if two or more people gel, they start working well together as a group 〔人〕开始结为一体，开始联手

gel with

He did not gel with Chapman.

他和查普曼没能顺利合作。

After two days, the group gelled into a team.

两天之后，这群人就组成了一支团结的团队。

3. DFT (also jell especially American EnglishAmE) [intransitiveI] if a liquid gels, it becomes firmer or thicker 形成胶体，胶化，胶凝

4 [transitiveT] to put gel into your hair 给〔头发〕上发胶

gelled hair

上过发胶的头发

Examples from the Corpus

gel• I am very pleased with how the group is gelling.• They appear to gel as a group, with only the odd complaint about sharing or taking turns.• a handsome man with short, gelled hair• Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981.• Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval.• We seem to be working really well as a unit and things really gel when we write together.

gel3 /dʒel/ noun [countableC] British EnglishBrE old-fashioned

WOMANCHILDused to represent the word ‘girl’, when it is said in this way 女孩

Examples from the Corpus

gel• Like pectin, psyllium forms a gel which is not digested or absorbed, thereby increasing the viscosity of the meal.• Support media that may be used for electrophoretic separations include agar gel, starch gel, cellulose acetate, and acrylamide.• Agar gel and cellulose acetate are the more commonly used media in the routine clinical laboratory. 189.• It is formulated as an attractive gel with green microparticles suspended inside.• Fixed parts should be painted liberally with cold oven cleaner gel and left to stand.• The samples were then fractionated on a 6% denaturing polyacrylamide gel.• For example, ethanol can be separated from a liquid mixture of ethanol and water by shaking the mixture with silica gel.• Good news for diaphragm users fed up with slippery spermicidal gel.

gel1 noungel2 verbgel3 noun

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