different between jelly vs conserve

English

Alternative forms

• gelly (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???l.i/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

From Middle English jelyf, gelly, gelye, gelle, gelee, gele, from Old French gelee, from Old French geler (“to congeal”), from Latin gel?re.

Noun

jelly (countable and uncountable, plural jellies)

1. (New Zealand, Australia, Britain) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set, known as "jello" in North America.
2. (Canada, US, Britain (certain specific usages)) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Normally known as "jam" in Commonwealth English but see redcurrant jelly and jeely
   • 1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and Wilma Lord Perkins revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition:

     Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass.

   • 1975, Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking, 5th revision:

     Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy.

3. (Caribbean, Jamaican) Clipping of jelly coconut.
4. A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
5. Any substance or object having the consistency of jelly.

   calf's-foot jelly

   • 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 24,^[1]

     […] some of the profounder scholars are altogether too great for locomotion, and are carried from place to place in a sort of sedan tub, wabbling jellies of knowledge that enlist my respectful astonishment.

6. (zoology) A jellyfish.
   • 2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 5:

     Species of the phylum Cnidaria – the classic jelly – have existed in something close to their current form for at least 565 million years; Ctenophora, the comb jellies, are not much younger.

7. (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 25:

     ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He?s got a jelly there.’

8. (US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.
   • 2001, Destiny's Child, “Bootylicious” (song)

     I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance

   • 2001, George Dell, Dance Unto the Lord, page 94:

     At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.

9. (colloquial) Clipping of gelignite.
10. (colloquial) A jelly shoe.
    • 2006, David L. Marcus, What It Takes to Pull Me Through:

      Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]

11. (colloquial, US) Blood.

Synonyms

• (dessert made by boiling gelatin): (US) jello, Jell-O
• (fruit preserve): jam, marmalade
• (gelatinous meat product): aspic

Derived terms

Related terms

• gel
• gelatin

Translations

Verb

jelly (third-person singular simple present jellies, present participle jellying, simple past and past participle jellied)

1. To wiggle like jelly.
2. To make jelly.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of jealous +? -y (informal adjective ending).

Adjective

jelly (comparative more jelly, superlative most jelly)

1. (slang) Jealous.
   • 2011, "Exchange smiles, not saliva", The Banner (Grand Blanc High School), Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2011, page 17:

     "I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:jelly.

References

• jelly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• jelly at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Old French conserver, from Latin conservare (“to keep, preserve”), from com- (intensive prefix) + servo (“keep watch, maintain”). See also observe.

Pronunciation

Noun

• enPR: k?n'sû(r)v, IPA^(key): /?k?ns??(?)v/
• Rhymes: -?ns??(?)v

Verb

• enPR: k?n-sû(r)v', IPA^(key): /k?n?s??(?)v/
• Rhymes: -??(r)v

Noun

conserve (plural conserves)

1. Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
2. A jam or thick syrup made from fruit.
   • August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53

     I shall […] study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman.

3. (obsolete) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar.
4. (obsolete) A conservatory.
   • c. 1700, John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum

     water […] alwayes placed in the Conserve

Translations

Verb

conserve (third-person singular simple present conserves, present participle conserving, simple past and past participle conserved)

1. (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.

   to conserve fruits with sugar

   • 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials

     the amity which […] they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor

2. (transitive) To protect an environment.
3. (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process

Derived terms

• conservation
• conservative
• conservatory

Translations

Anagrams

• Cervones, Converse, converse, coveners, encovers

French

Noun

conserve f (plural conserves)

1. canned food, preserve

Derived terms

Verb

conserve

1. first-person singular present indicative of conserver
2. third-person singular present indicative of conserver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of conserver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of conserver
5. second-person singular imperative of conserver

Further reading

• “conserve” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• recevons

Italian

Noun

conserve f

1. plural of conserva

Anagrams

• converse
• scernevo

Latin

Noun

c?nserve

1. vocative singular of c?nservus

Portuguese

Verb

conserve

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of conservar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of conservar
3. first-person singular imperative of conservar
4. third-person singular imperative of conservar

Spanish

Verb

conserve

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of conservar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of conservar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of conservar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of conservar.