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adhesive
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Word definitions for adhesive in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together [syn: adhesive material ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances. 2 apt or tending to adhere; clinging. n. A substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French adhésif , formed in French from Latin adhaes- , past participle stem of adhaere (see adherent (adj.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adhesive \Ad*he"sive\, a. [Cf. F. adh['e]sif.] Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances. Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. --Thomson. Adhesive attraction . (Physics) See Attraction . Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which ...
Usage examples of adhesive.
What has such an adhesive to act upon if there is absolutely no given magnitude of real earth to which it may bind particle after particle in its business of producing the continuous mass?
Swearing, he went out againit was snowing fiercely nowto a different store and purchased a cyanoacrylate adhesive, the kind that bonds skin instantly.
Plastic decalcomania had been applied to the fuselage with just enough adhesive to hold them in place for a short time.
Clearly pleased at the prospect, West untied the girl and encouraged her to take three baths and wash her hair, to get rid of the sticky gum that was still stuck to it from the adhesive tape she had been gagged with the evening before.
They already had adhesive over her lips, and her wrists were pinned, but she kicked furiously at Goofer when he tried to bind her ankles.
Therefore I do not doubt that little folds of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which, likewise, very slightly aided the act of respiration, have been gradually converted by natural selection into branchiae, simply through an increase in their size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands.
Reluctantly, for his tongue and fingers itched to play with her new toy, he positioned the sterile vinyl shield the piercer handed him and smoothed its adhesive edges down to protect her newly pierced flesh from bacteria that might lurk on his hands and mouth.
Little adhesive labels were stuck to some of them, identifying them as terbium, tantalum, promethium.
Ludlow Baculum carefully peeled the adhesive patch from his right buttock.
I went in, bought some adhesive tape, a small bottle of benzine, a package of cotton, a writing pad and a police whistle.
In the hallway I pulled off the pasteboard mask, moistened a piece of cotton in the benzine and scrubbed off the bits of adhesive which had stuck to my face and forehead.
She yanked both strips of adhesive loose, stepped forward suddenly, as Budlong and Mannie leaned over me grabbing at my flailing arm, and plunged both needles home.
He asked for a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a bottle of Mercurochrome, a box of gauze pads, a roll of gauze, and adhesive tape.
My tools were the toothbrush, its reaming pick on the other end, a file, an adhesive neutralizer, a polishing gel, a shammy cloth, and creeping mental paralysis.
The turners and stitchers wore adhesive tape on their fingers, even after years of building up calluses.