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adhesive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adhesive \Ad*he"sive\, a. [Cf. F. adh['e]sif.]
Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
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Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
--Thomson.Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction.
Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration.
Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French adhésif, formed in French from Latin adhaes-, past participle stem of adhaere (see adherent (adj.)).
1881, from adhesive (adj.). Originally of postage stamps (adhesive stamp is attested from 1840). Of substances that cause to adhere by 1900.
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.
WordNet
adj. tending to adhere [ant: nonadhesive]
n. a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together [syn: adhesive material]
Wikipedia
Adhesive may be used interchangeably with glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, and is any substance applied to one surface, or both surfaces, of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation. Adjectives may be used in conjunction with the word “adhesive” to describe properties based on the substance's physical or chemical form, the type of materials joined, or conditions under which it is applied.
The use of adhesives offers many advantages over binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastening, thermal bonding, etc. These include the ability to bind different materials together, to distribute stress more efficiently across the joint, the cost effectiveness of an easily mechanized process, an improvement in aesthetic design, and increased design flexibility. Disadvantages of adhesive use include decreased stability at high temperatures, relative weakness in bonding large objects with a small bonding surface area, and greater difficulty in separating objects during testing. Adhesives are typically organized by the method of adhesion. These are then organized into reactive and non-reactive adhesives, which refers to whether the adhesive chemically reacts in order to harden. Alternatively they can be organized by whether the raw stock is of natural or synthetic origin, or by their starting physical phase.
Adhesives may be found naturally or produced synthetically. The earliest human use of adhesive-like substances was approximately 200,000 years ago. The first references to adhesives in literature first appeared in approximately 2000 BCE. The Greeks and Romans made great contributions to the development of adhesives. In Europe, glue was not widely used until the period 1500–1700 CE. From then until the 1900s increases in adhesive use and discovery were relatively gradual. Only since the last century has the development of synthetic adhesives accelerated rapidly, and innovation in the field continues to the present.
Adhesive was a Swedish punk rock band that was active between 1994-2002. Though Adhesive played the majority of their concerts in the band's native Sweden, they also toured throughout Europe and North America. All of the Adhesive back catalog is out of print.
Former band members currently perform in such groups as We Live In Trenches, The Typewriter Romantics, Haveri, The Indecision Alarm, The New Mess, Straitjacket Generation and Dia Psalma.
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.