Word Meanings - COLLOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

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• COLLOID
  Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• JELLY
  jelly, frost, fr. geler to freeze. L. gelare; akin to gelu frost. See 1. Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like. 2.
• COLLOIDALITY
  The state or quality of being colloidal.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• COLLOIDAL
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• APPEARANCE
  The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• JELLYFISH
  Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• GELATINOUS
  Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• SUBGELATINOUS
  Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
• NONAPPEARANCE
  Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
• INJELLY
  To place in jelly.
• SEA JELLY
  A medusa, or jellyfish.