DictionaryRoot: jelly
English

jelly

a substance that sets into a soft solid

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A playground design jells: two designers move from disconnected, conflicting sketches to one coherent plan that incorporates their ideas.
verb

jell

JEL/dʒel/

To become coherent, organized, or workable.

Etymology

Jelly becoming firm supplied the figurative sense of plans or ideas becoming organized and successful.

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