gel

Examples

• All

• Blues for cooling things off, orange and pink gels for warming things up.

  MIT OpenCourseWare

• OK, Hang our gel up here right in front of the light like that.

• Let me put a a red gel in front of the light.

• So what does the gel on the right show?

• You get me that black light gel and I'll come up with something.

  Yonkers Joe (2008)

• These are gel packs for studio lighting.

• The best gels to use are those made by Roscoer.

  Academic text (2008)

• You filter colors by adding different colored gels, getting less but whiter light.

  Blog text (9)

• A Lumiquest softbox with colored gels can be attached to an electronic flash by a Velcro strip.

  Academic text (2005)

• The lighting designer chose a blue gel to create a cool ambiance on stage.

Synonyms

G

gelatin

vsgel

• Jargon

1 7.0

A thin colored sheet placed over lights to change their color

is the shorter common name for the same lighting sheet

Compounds

H

hair gel

9 1.0

A thick sticky product that styles and holds hair

S

silica gel

• Specialized

1 5.8

A dry material of small grains that soaks up moisture from things like shoes

C

colloidal gel

• Specialized

6.9

A soft, jelly-like substance with tiny particles mixed in that trap liquid

Surface Forms

Etymology