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JELLIES

Definition: JELLIES

JELLIES

Plural

1. Of Jelly

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "JELLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)


Synonym: JELLIES

Synonym: Preserves. (additional references)

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Crosswords: JELLIES

English words defined with "JELLIES": American elderBarbados gooseberry, black currant, black elder, black elderberry, blade apple, blue elder, blue elderberry, bourtreecommon elder, Crataegus aestivalis, Ctenophora, currantdilleniaelderberry, European elderfeijoagooseberry, guavaimportantlyjamjar, jampot, Japanese plumloquatmayhawpectin, phylum Ctenophora, pineapple guavared currant, rose appleSambucus caerulea, Sambucus canadensis, Sambucus nigra, summer haw, sweet elder. (references)
Specialty definitions using "JELLIES": cold-meat chef, cook, cold meatGARDE MANGERLACMELLEA FLORIBUNDAMALPIGHIA PUNICIFOLIAPSIDIUM GUJAVATiriguro. (references)

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Modern Usage: JELLIES

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Takin' on the jellies. (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton)

Movie/TV Titles

Jellies & Other Ocean Drifters (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: JELLIES

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree in Brazil (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Cooked Jams, Fruit Jellies, Marmalades, and Fruit Puree: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Jams, Jellies, Pickles & Preserves: Making the Most of Seasonal Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers (reference)

  • The Best of Jams, Jellies & Relishes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens: From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens (Miniature Cookbook Collection) (reference)

  • The Book of Preserves: Jams, Chutneys, Pickles, Jellies (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: JELLIES

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: JELLIES

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Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies / Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Preparing jams and jellies in silver-lined kettles. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barto, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Thomas Evans with her jellies which are kept on a hanging shelf to keep the bugs off of them. On the farm of Thomas Evans, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: JELLIES

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

A bag of bottles, syringes, pills, powders, fluids, jellies to make their sexual intercourse safe, odorless, and unproductive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: JELLIES

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Normally, the body gets its major source of energy from glucose, a simple sugar that comes from foods high in simple carbohydrates (e.g., table sugar or other sweeteners such as honey, molasses, jams, and jellies, soft drinks, and cookies), or from the breakdown of complex carbohydrates such as starches (e.g., bread, potatoes, and pasta). (references)

Economic History

Guyana

Products such as jams, jellies, sauces, processed spices, and fruit puree blends show great potential for increased production and export. (references)

Guyana

Local products such as jams, jellies, sauces, processed spices, and fruit puree blends show much potential for increased production and export. (references)

Guyana

However, excellent investment opportunities exist for the export of Guyana's fresh fruits, vegetables and processed foods such as jams, jellies, fruit puree blends, processed spices and sauces. (references)

Trade

Italy

Specific EU regulations exist for cocoa and chocolate products, sugars, fruit juices, fruit jams and jellies, milk and casein products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: JELLIES

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Cindy Adams

Sure it is because every place you go, you go to downtown Poughkeepsie, you got somebody talking jams and jellies and gossip. Gossip is in every magazine every place.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: JELLIES

"JELLIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "JELLIES" is used about 80 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%8037,112

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: JELLIES

Expression using "JELLIES": comb jellies. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "JELLIES": box-jellies, comb-jellies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: JELLIES

Language Translations for "JELLIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

果冻 (jelly). (various references)

   

French

  

prise en masse (setting of jellies). (various references)

   

German

  

Gelees. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(jelly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elliesjay

   

Turkmen 

  

marmelad (r) (candy, fruit jellies). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: JELLIES

Misspellings

"JELLIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jelian, jelie, jellen, jelli, Jellie, Jellinek, jellous, jellys, jelos, jelus, jolies, jolis, jolliet, mellies, Nellies, wellies. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "JELLIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "JELLIES" (pronounced je"lēz)
4-e" l ē zalleles, bellies.
3-l ē zalleys, anomalies, assemblies, Baileys, bullies, chilies, chilis, chillies, Collies, dailies, doilies, facsimiles, families, fillies, follies, galleys, Gillies, grizzlies, gullies, Hillbillies, hollies, homilies, jollies, lilies, monopolies, pulleys, rallies, sallies, subassemblies, subfamilies, tallies, tamales, trolleys, valleys, volleys, weeklies.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: JELLIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-j-l-l-s"

-2 letters: jells, jills, lisle, selle.

-3 letters: eels, ells, else, ills, isle, jees, jell, jill, lees, leis, lies, seel, sell, sill.

-4 letters: eel, ell, els, ill, jee, lee, lei, lie, lis, see, sei, sel.

-5 letters: el, es, is, li, si.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-j-l-l-s"
 

+2 letters: jellifies.

 

+4 letters: jellyfishes, jewelleries, jollinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: JELLIES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 45 4C 4C 49 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0045 004C 004C 0049 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

44394646433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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