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"GELS" is a plural of: gel. |
Date "GELS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Colloids with a solid continuous phase and liquid as the dispersed phase; gels may be unstable when, due to temperature or other cause, the solid phase liquifies; the resulting colloid is called a sol. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GELS |
| Specialty definitions using "GELS": Acrylamides ♦ Chromatography, Gel ♦ Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional ♦ Fluorides, Topical ♦ gel strength ♦ nucleic acids hybridization ♦ Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational ♦ Silicone Gels ♦ zero-zero gel. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The image shows a scientist viewing DNA sequencing gels. Credit: John Crawford (photographer). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For varnishes and gels, the data are promising. (references) | |
Use poison baits, powders, gels, or paste (for example, boric acid). (references) | ||
Ask your pharmacist about vaginal gels that can be applied to the vagina. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GELS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 88.76% of the time. "GELS" is used about 89 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 (plural) | 88.76% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 10.11% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GELS": Silicone Gels. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "GELS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | séchage des gels (drying of gels). (various references) | ||||
German | Trocknen von Gel (drying of gels). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | elsgay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GELS": gelsemia, gelsemium, gelsemiums. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GELS": aasvogels, aerogels, angels, archangels, bagels, becudgels, cudgels, evangels, hydrogels, kugels, mangels, plasmagels, ridgels, spiegels. (additional references) | |
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"GELS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egels, egles, Eglese, gaels, galsh, galz, gces, geas, geds, Geel, Geely, Geils, geis, geiss, gela, Gelasa, gelb, gelc, gele, gelf, geli, gelk, gella, gells, gelo, gelos, gelp, Gelsey, gelts, gelu, gely, gelz, gers, ges, Geula, geus, gews, geys, ghes, giles, gils, glec, glegs, gles, Glesga, glest, gleys, Glsi, Glso, Goelz, gols, Golz, guls, gusle, Gylys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GELS" (pronounced je"lz) |
| 3 | -e" l z | belles, bells, bels, cartels, cells, cels, compels, dispels, dwells, ells, Els, excels, farewells, fells, gazelles, hotels, lapels, materiels, motels, organelles, outsells, pastels, propels, repels, resells, sells, shells, smells, spells, swells, tells, Wells, yells. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: legs. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-s" | |
-1 letter: els, gel, leg, seg, sel. | |
-2 letters: el, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-s" | |
+1 letter: gales, gelds, gelts, gleds, glees, glens, gleys, glues, gules, leges, loges, luges, ogles. | |
+2 letters: aglets, angels, angles, argles, bagels, belgas, bilges, bogles, bugles, bulges, eagles, fugles, gables, galeas, gavels, gelees, gimels, glaces, glades, glares, glazes, gleams, gleans, glebes, gledes, gleeds, gleeks, gleets, glides, glimes, globes, gloves, glozes, gluers, glumes, golems, gospel, grilse, gruels, guiles, gunsel, ingles, kluges, kugels, lagers, larges, ledges, legals, legers, legist, legits, lieges, ligase, ligers, lodges, longes, lugers, lunges, oglers, plages, sagely, silage, single, sledge, sleigh, sludge, solgel, uglies. | |
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