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Definition: JELLIES |
JELLIESPlural1. Of Jelly |
Date "JELLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonym: JELLIESSynonym: Preserves. (additional references) |
Crosswords: JELLIES |
| English words defined with "JELLIES": American elder ♦ Barbados gooseberry, black currant, black elder, black elderberry, blade apple, blue elder, blue elderberry, bourtree ♦ common elder, Crataegus aestivalis, Ctenophora, currant ♦ dillenia ♦ elderberry, European elder ♦ feijoa ♦ gooseberry, guava ♦ importantly ♦ jamjar, jampot, Japanese plum ♦ loquat ♦ mayhaw ♦ pectin, phylum Ctenophora, pineapple guava ♦ red currant, rose apple ♦ Sambucus caerulea, Sambucus canadensis, Sambucus nigra, summer haw, sweet elder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "JELLIES": cold-meat chef, cook, cold meat ♦ GARDE MANGER ♦ LACMELLEA FLORIBUNDA ♦ MALPIGHIA PUNICIFOLIA ♦ PSIDIUM GUJAVA ♦ Tiriguro. (references) |
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Screenplays | Takin' on the jellies. (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) | |
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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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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A bag of bottles, syringes, pills, powders, fluids, jellies to make their sexual intercourse safe, odorless, and unproductive. |
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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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 80 | 37,112 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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 | 묵 (jelly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | elliesjay marmelad (r) (candy, fruit jellies). (various references) | ||||||||||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "JELLIES" (pronounced je"lēz) |
| 4 | -e" l ē z | alleles, bellies. |
| 3 | -l ē z | alleys, 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 45 4C 4C 49 45 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J E L L I E S |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44394646433953 |
| 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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