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Definitions: Gelatin |
GelatinNoun1. A colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin. 2. An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods. 3. A thin membrane of translucent gelatin used over stage lights for color effects. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gelatin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
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Chemistry | Less glutinous and more refined protein substance than glues, forming a clear jelly with water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A product formed from skin, white connective tissue, or bone collagen. It is used as a protein food adjuvant, plasma substitute, hemostatic, suspending agent in pharmaceutical preparations, and in the manufacturing of capsules and suppositories. (references) |
Mining | See:gelatin dynamite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GelatinSynonyms: gelatine (n), jelly (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Semiliquidity | Jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity); wax, beeswax. |
Gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky, gooey; slab, slabby; lentous, pituitous; mucid, muculent, mucous; gummy. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | The demolitions committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin. In two minutes primary charges will blow base charges and a few square blocks will be reduced to smoldering rubble. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
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Health | Water, juice, soft drinks, broth, ice cream, soup, popsicles, and gelatin are all considered fluids. (references) | |
To give your child the medicine, break open the gelatin capsule and mix the drug with something sweet, such as applesauce, chocolate syrup, or jelly. (references) | ||
Try a clear liquid diet (water, weak tea, apple juice, clear broth, plain gelatin) as soon as diarrhea starts or when you feel that it's going to start. (references) | ||
Political Economy | POLAND | Poland also banned imports of gelatin of bovine origin from all countries in February 2001 because of BSE concerns. (references) |
ITALY | Starting October 1, 2001, the EU, including Italy, requires that blood products, gelatin, tallow and mechanically removed meat such as that used in some pet foods, be subject to Commission regulation 1326/2001. This regulation requires that various animal products, even pet foods, not intended for human consumption, not contain specified risk materials (SRMs) and that these foods be certified to that effect. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | Category I includes: bakery & bakery related products; non-alcoholic beverages & beverage mixes; candies & confectionery products; cocoa & cocoa related products; coffee, tea & non-dairy creamer; condiments, sauces & seasonings; culinary products; gelatin, dessert preparation & mixes; dairy products; dressings & spreads; flour/flour mixes & starch; fish & other marine products; fruits, vegetable & edible fungi (prepared); meat and poultry products (prepared); noodles, pastas & pastry wrapper; nut & nut products; native delicacies; oils, fats & shortening; snack foods & breakfast cereals and; sugar & other related products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gelatin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Gelatin" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.65% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gelatin": Blasting gelatin ♦ gelatin dessert ♦ Gelatin process ♦ glycerinated gelatin ♦ silk gelatin ♦ vegetable gelatin. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "gelatin": gelatin-silver. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gelatin | 399 |
gelatin knox | 101 |
gelatin capsule | 45 |
kosher gelatin | 24 |
gelatin recipe | 22 |
gelatin ingredient | 21 |
jello gelatin | 17 |
gelatin made | 13 |
gelatin royal | 9 |
ballistic gelatin | 9 |
gelatin mold | 9 |
gelatin sheet | 8 |
gelatin knox recipe | 7 |
gelatin vegetarian | 6 |
gelatin knox nail | 6 |
gelatin dessert | 6 |
gelatin salad | 6 |
arthritis gelatin | 5 |
fish gelatin | 5 |
gelatin loss weight | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gelatin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | xhelatinë (aspic, gelatine, jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | желатин (fish glue, gelatine, isinglass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 明胶 (Celluloid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | želatina (gelatine, jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gelatinesprængstof (gelatine), gelatineret sprængstof (gelatine), gelatine (gelatine), E485. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gelatine, gegelatineerde springstof (gelatine), E485. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ژلاتینی , سریشم , دلمه (Clod, Jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gélatine (gelatine, gelation), explosif gelatineux (gelatine), E485. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gelatine (E485, gelatine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζελατίνη (celluloid, E485, gel, gelatine, jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csontenyv (gelatine, lime glue), zselatin (gelatine, isinglass), állati enyv (gelatine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | agar-agar (gelatin (made of seaweed), jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gelatina (aspic, E485, gel, gelatine, jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | セ氏 (Celsius, Centigrade, general contractor, general manager, general strike, jelly, Jerry, major construction contractor, seminar, zebra crossing, zebra zone, zero, Zeus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゼラチン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 라틴 (gelatine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elatingay gelatina (E485, gelatine, gelatinize, jelly), explosivo gelatinoso (gelatine, gelignite), colóide (colloid). (various references) желатин. (various references) želatin (gelatine). (various references) gelatina (E485, gelatine, gelignite, jello, jelly). (various references) วุ้น. (various references) jelâtinli patlayıcı (gelatine), jelâtin (gelatine). (various references) желатин (gelatine, isinglass). (various references) Gelatin chất nổ nitroglyxerin (gelatine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "gelatin": gelatine, gelatines, gelating, gelatinization, gelatinizations, gelatinize, gelatinized, gelatinizes, gelatinizing, gelatinous, gelatinously, gelatinousness, gelatinousnesses, gelatins. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gelatin": regelating. (additional references) | |
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"Gelatin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bellatini, galatai, galatin, gelasin, gelatan, gelate, gelati, gellatin, gellitin, gelotin, Giltaij, glaten, Gulati, selatan, Yelstin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gelatin" (pronounced je"lutun) |
| 6 | -e" l u t u n | exoskeleton, skeleton. |
| 5 | -l u t u n | bulletin, charlatan, cosmopolitan, metropolitan. |
| 4 | -u t u n | biotin, lovastatin, puritan, Samaritan. |
| 3 | -t u n | actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, chieftain, clandestine, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, fatten, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, rewritten, rotten, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: atingle, elating, genital. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: aiglet, eating, entail, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, ingate, ligate, linage, tangle, tenail, tineal, tingle. | |
-2 letters: agent, agile, aglet, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, elain, elint, entia, giant, glean, glint, ingle, inlet, laten, leant, legit, liane, liang, ligan, linga, telia, tenia, tinea, tinge. | |
-3 letters: agin, alit, anil, ante, anti, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gale, gane, gate, gelt, gent, geta, gien, gilt, glen, glia, gnat, ilea, lain, lane, lang, late, lati, lean, lent, lien, line, ling, lint, lite, nail, neat, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tang, teal, tela, tile, tine, ting. | |
-4 letters: age, ail, ain, ait, ale, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eng, eta, gae, gal, gan, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, lag, lat, lea, leg, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, nae, nag, net, nil, nit, tae, tag, tan, tea, teg, tel, ten, tie, til, tin. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, an, at, el, en, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: agential, alerting, alginate, altering, atheling, bleating, cleating, delating, exalting, galenite, gantline, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, genitals, gnatlike, integral, latening, legatine, legating, legation, ligament, metaling, pleating, relating, stealing, tangible, tanglier, teazling, tegminal, triangle, valeting. | |
+2 letters: alginates, alignment, allegiant, analgetic, anglesite, antiglare, athelings, chelating, cingulate, clientage, deflating, desalting, detailing, earthling, eglantine, elevating, emulating, entailing, faltering, fellating, gainliest, galantine, galenites, galleting, gangliest, gantlines, gelatines, gelations, genetical, geniality, genitalia, genitalic, genitally, genitival, giantlike, glutamine, gnarliest, granulite, haltering, ignitable, inelegant, integrals, jangliest, lamenting, lathering, legations, levanting, ligaments, metalling, paltering, reflating, replating, reslating, retailing, slangiest, stealings, tableting, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, teazeling, trameling, traveling, treadling, triangles, vigilante. | |
+3 letters: alienating, alightment, alignments, alimenting, allegation, analgetics, anglesites, antilogies, antiplague, blanketing, blathering, blattering, clattering, clientages, congenital, corelating, datelining, defaulting, delegating, delegation, depilating, desolating, earthlings, eglantines, elongating, elongation, eluviating, embattling, entangling, escalating, ethylating, etiolating, evaluating, evangelist, exactingly, explanting, flattening, flattering, gadolinite, galantines, galivanted, gantleting, gelatinize, gelatinous, generalist, generality, geniculate, glauconite, gleization, glutamines, granulites, hatcheling, intaglioed, intangible, integrable, integrally, invigilate, lacerating, lactogenic, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, leafleting, leathering, levigating, levigation, levitating, liberating, lightplane, martingale, metalising, metalizing, multirange, negational, negatively, negotiable, nongenital, nucleating, outleaping, peculating, plastering, plateauing, pregenital, realtering, refloating, regelating, regimental, regulating, regulation, relegating, relegation, relocating, replanting, resaluting, retackling, retailings, signalment, slathering, spangliest, starveling, tabletting, tangential, tasselling, teaselling, teazelling, theologian, toenailing, tolerating, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, travelling, trigeminal, ulcerating, urogenital, vigilantes. | |
+4 letters: acceptingly, acetylating, affectingly, agglutinate, alightments, allegations, alleviating, alloantigen, alphabeting, altercating, alternating, amblygonite, anthologies, anthologize, antiplagues, arrestingly, banteringly, benignantly, candlelight, cartelising, cartelizing, celebrating, centrifugal, congelation, correlating, deadlifting, decollating, defalcating, defoliating, delegations, delineating, detasseling, devaluating, disentangle, dovetailing, egalitarian, ejaculating, elaborating, eliminating, elongations, elucidating, elutriating, enigmatical, enthralling, enucleating, evangelists, everlasting, exculpating, exfoliating, explicating, facelifting, falteringly, farthingale, gadolinites, gallantries, gallivanted, gauntleting, geanticline, gelatinized, gelatinizes, genealogist, generalists, genetically, genialities, geniculated, genitivally, genotypical, gestational, gesticulant, ghastliness, glauconites, gleizations, glutaminase, glutathione, glycerinate, goaltending, granitelike, hatchelling, inelegantly, intangibles, integrality, interlacing, interlaying, invigilated, invigilates, langbeinite, langoustine, lastingness, lateralling, leafletting, legislating, legislation, levigations, libertinage, ligamentous, lightplanes, linecasting, maledicting, malignities, maltreating, martingales, meliorating, metallizing, methylating, misaltering, misrelating, multiagency, nightingale, nightwalker, nonintegral, outbleating, outlearning, oversalting, overtalking, palletising, palletizing, pedestaling, percolating, plaistering, plantigrade, plasterings, platemaking, praelecting, preplanting, realignment, reallotting, regimentals, regionalist, regulations, reinflating, relegations, reluctating, replicating, retailoring, retaliating, revaluating, signalments, speculating, splattering, stalemating, starvelings, steelmaking, talebearing, teetotaling, telecasting, theologians, trailerings, trammelling, triangulate, trigeminals, unfaltering, ungainliest, ventilating. | |
+5 letters: accelerating, adulterating, agglutinable, agglutinated, agglutinates, agglutinogen, alliterating, alloantigens, almightiness, amblygonites, ameliorating, angelologist, angularities, anthologized, anthologizer, anthologizes, antireligion, appetizingly, astringently, bestializing, billingsgate, candlelights, cartwheeling, caterwauling, centralising, centralizing, centrifugals, cladogenetic, clatteringly, congelations, congeniality, congenitally, conglutinate, debilitating, decelerating, deescalating, deflagrating, deflagration, deglaciation, delaminating, deliberating, demodulating, depopulating, deregulating, deregulation, desalinating, desolatingly, detasselling, devitalizing, disentailing, disentangled, disentangles, earsplitting, edulcorating, egalitarians, elucubrating, emasculating, enchantingly, entreatingly, establishing, eternalizing, ethnological, evangelistic, everlastings, exhilarating, farthingales, felicitating, flagellating, flagellation, flatteringly, forestalling, ganglionated, geanticlines, gelatinizing, gelatinously, genealogists, generalities, generational, geobotanical, geotechnical, glutaminases, glutathiones, glycerinated, glycerinates, goaltendings, halogenating, halogenation, hearteningly, hesitatingly, interglacial, interlapping, interlarding, interleaving, interplaying, intertillage, intervillage, langbeinites, langoustines, languishment, laryngitides, lateralizing, legalization, legislations, legitimating, legitimation, libertinages, linecastings, literalizing, livetrapping, magnetically, magnetizable, magniloquent, metabolizing, metalworking, mineralogist, misalignment, multimegaton, nauseatingly, nematologies, nematologist, neutralising, neutralizing, nightingales, nightwalkers, nonalignment, obliterating, oceanologist, organoleptic, overplanting, palingenetic, pedestalling, plantigrades, platemakings, preallotting, pregnability, premalignant, realignments, reallocating, reescalating, reevaluating, regionalists, reimplanting, reinstalling, relativizing, renegotiable, replastering, repopulating, reregulating, reregulation, reticulating, revalidating, revictualing, revitalising, revitalizing, scatteringly, shatteringly, slaughtering, staggeringly, steamrolling, steelmakings, stonewalling, streamlining, stringhalted, tabernacling, talebearings, tangentially, tangibleness, teetotalling, telegramming, telegraphing, tessellating, thermalizing, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, unapologetic, unflattering, unnegotiable, urinogenital, vegetational, vesiculating, waterfowling, waterlogging. | |
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