Jelly vs. Paste — What's the Difference?

A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.

A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid

Something, such as a petroleum ointment, having the consistency of a soft, semisolid food substance.

Coat with paste

A shapeless, pulpy mass

Beat or defeat severely

Something, such as a body part, that has suddenly become limp or enervated

A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.

A jellyfish.

The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery. Also called pâte.

A jelly sandal.

A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.

To cause to have the consistency of jelly.

A food that has been pounded until it is reduced to a smooth creamy mass

To acquire the consistency of jelly

A sweet doughy candy or confection

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.

A hard, brilliant, lead-containing glass used in making artificial gems.

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

A gem made of this glass. Also called strass.

Clipping of jelly coconut

A hard blow.

A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.

To cause to adhere by applying paste.

Any substance or object having the consistency of jelly.

To cover with something by using paste

(zoology) A jellyfish.

(Computers) To insert (text, graphics, or other data) into a document or file.

A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

(Computers) To insert text, graphics, or other data into a document or file.

A large backside, especially a woman's.

To strike forcefully.

(colloquial) gelignite

To defeat soundly.

(colloquial) A jelly shoe.

A soft moist mixture, in particular:

Blood.

One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

(India) vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.

(obsolete) Pastry.

(transitive) To make into jelly.

One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

(transitive) To preserve in jelly.

One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

To wiggle like jelly. en

(physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid

(slang) Jealous.

A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

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.

(obsolete) Pasta.

The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.

(mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.

(transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

A preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit

To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods

To strike or beat someone or something.

A substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods

To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Make into jelly;

A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.

A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, - used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., - also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.

A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.

A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.

The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

Any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

An adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers

Join or attach with or as if with glue;

Hit with the fists;

Cover the surface of;