[
UK
/dʒˈɛlɐtˌɪn/
]
[ US /ˈdʒɛɫətən/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɛɫətən/ ]
NOUN
- a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin
- a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
- an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods
How To Use gelatin In A Sentence
- Casein and gelatin function as adsorbents for phenolics and can reduce a wine's excess bitterness and astringency.
- _ -- Soak a teaspoonful of gelatine in a dessert spoonful of water. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.
- He was a large, meaty, oily type of man — a kind of ambling, gelatinous formula of the male, with the usual sound commercial instincts of the Jew, but with an errant philosophy which led him to believe first one thing and then another so long as neither interfered definitely with his business. The Titan
- Adhering egg clusters along the spines are covered by thin, gelatinous sheath; tips of spines are separated from each other, with slight but distinct subterminal narrowing.
- Bring to the boil, add the gelatine and stir to combine. Times, Sunday Times
- The entire process is known as the gelatinisation of starch and is very important in cooking.
- The engineer hastily tore away the paper and took up five or six glass photographic negatives, of a half-plate size, which were damp, and stuck together by the gelatine films in couples. Martin Hewitt, Investigator
- Try siphonophores, gelatinous animals that live in the deep sea, whose abundance is only now being measured by scientists in Monterey Bay, but may take the prize.
- Even when, by the elasticity of the flesh, that cavity closed up some, it closed up on organs that had been gelatinized, literally turned to viscosity. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
- The paste stood out amongst its neighbours on the platter, not for its taste, but for its bright pinkish colour and shiny, gelatinous consistency - a treat to some, but not my personal fave.