Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).

    apply a styling gel to

  2. (intransitive)To become a gel: to set up.

    become a gel

  3. (intransitive)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.

  4. (figuratively, intransitive)To come together to form something; to cohere.

    We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.

Examples

29 sentences
  1. Tom puts gel in his hair.

  2. Tom put gel in his hair.

    deTom gelte sich das Haar. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Do you have any hair gel?

  4. I don't use shower gel.

    Я не користуюся гелем для душа. — deniko

    ruЯ не пользуюсь гелем для душа. — marafon

  5. This is a high-quality gel.

Translations

3 languages

Forms

gels, gelling, gelled, gelled
Base formgel · to gel
3rd person singulargels
Present participlegelling
Past simplegelled
Past participlegelled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygel
he, she, itgels

Past simpleLesson

all personsgelled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gelled
he, she, ithas gelled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gel

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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