gelling
/ˈd͡ʒɛlɪŋ/
gelling is the present participle and gerund of gel.
Meaning of gel
Verb
gel (third-person singular simple present gels, present participle gelling, simple past and past participle gelled)
- To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
- It ended, as it so often does, with that familiar smile. Cristiano Ronaldo – gelled hair, dazzling teeth, magic in his boots – will never forget the night he scored the 600th goal of an almost implausible career.2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juve”, in The Guardian (London), archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019
- To become a gel: to set up.
- To develop a rapport.
- He was a nice guy, and I got on OK with his friends, but the two of us never really gelled.
- To come together to form something; to cohere.
- We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.
Proper noun capitalized: Gelling
Gelling (plural Gellings)
- A surname.
Forms of gelling
| plural | Gellings |
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Words formed from gelling
Phrases with gelling
Words that rhyme with gelling
- shelling
- spelling
- telling
- compelling
- swelling
- belling
- selling
- smelling
- cabbeling
- dwelling
- felling
- paralleling
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Questions about gelling
- What does gelling mean?
- Gelling means a surname.
- What is gelling the present participle and gerund of?
- Gelling is the present participle and gerund of gel.
- What part of speech is gelling?
- Gelling is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gelling?
- Gelling is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛlɪŋ/.
Words near gelling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gelling (page history and authors); Gelling (page history and authors); gel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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