Gel vs. Cream — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gel and Cream
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Gel
A gel is a semi-solid that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Gels are defined as a substantially dilute cross-linked system, which exhibits no flow when in the steady-state.
Cream
Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, eventually rises to the top.
Gel
A a thick, clear, slightly sticky substance, especially one used in cosmetic or medicinal products
Hair gel
Cream
The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
Gel
A semi-rigid slab or cylinder of an organic polymer used as a medium for the separation of macromolecules.
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Cream
Any of various substances resembling or containing cream
Hand cream.
Gel
An upper-class or well-bred girl or young woman
Fastidiously reared Home Counties gels
Cream
A pale yellow to yellowish white.
Gel
(of a liquid or semi-liquid substance) set or become more solid
The stew is gelling
Cream
The choicest part
The cream of the crop.
Gel
(of a project or idea) take a definite form or begin to work well
Everything seemed to gel for the magazine
Cream
To form cream.
Gel
Apply gel to (the hair)
Short gelled hair
They'd gelled their hair
Cream
To form foam or froth at the top.
Gel
A colloid in which the disperse phase has combined with the dispersion medium to produce a semisolid material, such as a jelly.
Cream
To have an orgasm.
Gel
See gelatin.
Cream
To be excited or delighted about something.
Gel
A jellylike substance used in styling hair.
Cream
To remove the cream from; skim.
Gel
To become a gel.
Cream
To take or remove (the best part)
Creamed off the highest-paying jobs for her cronies.
Gel
To apply a gel to (the hair).
Cream
To take the best part from
Creamed the whole department to form his management team.
Gel
To take shape or become clear
Plans for the project are finally starting to gel.
Cream
To beat into a creamy consistency.
Gel
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Cream
To prepare or cook in or with a cream sauce.
Gel
Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
Cream
To add cream to.
Gel
A girl.
Cream
To defeat overwhelmingly
Creamed our rival on their home court.
Gel
(transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
Cream
To damage severely; destroy
My camera got creamed when I dropped it.
Gel
(intransitive) To become a gel.
Cream
Vulgar Slang To have an orgasm in (one's pants, for example).
Gel
(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.
Cream
The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
Gel
To come together to form something; to cohere.
We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.
Cream
The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
Gel
A colloid in a more solid form than a sol
Cream
The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
Gel
A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Cream
(tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
Gel
Become a gel;
The solid, when heated, gelled
Cream
A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
Gel
Apply a styling gel to;
She mousses her hair
Cream
(informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
Cream
(figuratively) The best part of something.
The cream of the crop
The cream of a collection of books or pictures
Cream
(medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
Cream
Semen.
Cream
(obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
Cream
Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
Cream
To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
Cream
To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
Cream
(slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
We creamed the opposing team!
Cream
To ejaculate used of either gender.
Cream
To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
Cream
To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
Cream
(transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
Cream
To take off the best or choicest part of.
Cream
(transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
Cream
(intransitive) To gather or form cream.
Cream
The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
Cream
The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
Cream
A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
Cream
A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
In vain she tries her paste and creams,To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
Cream
The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.
Cream
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
Cream
To take off the best or choicest part of.
Cream
To furnish with, or as with, cream.
Creaming the fragrant cups.
Cream
To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
There are a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pool.
Cream
The best people or things in a group;
The cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War
Cream
The part of milk containing the butterfat
Cream
Toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
Cream
Make creamy by beating;
Cream the butter
Cream
Put on cream, as on one's face or body;
She creams her face every night
Cream
Remove from the surface;
Skim cream from the surface of milk
Cream
Add cream to one's coffee, for example
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