Adhesive vs. Gum

Adhesiveadjective

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

Adhesiveadjective

Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

Adhesivenoun

A substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion.

Adhesiveadjective

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

Adhesiveadjective

Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

Adhesivenoun

a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together

Adhesiveadjective

tending to adhere

Adhesive

Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.The use of adhesives offers certain advantages over other binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastenings, or welding. These include the ability to bind different materials together, the more efficient distribution of stress across a joint, the cost-effectiveness of an easily mechanized process, and greater flexibility in design.

Gumnoun

The flesh around the teeth.

Gumnoun

Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.

Gumnoun

Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.

Gumnoun

Chewing gum.

Gumnoun

(countable) A single piece of chewing gum.

Gumnoun

A gummi candy.

Gumnoun

A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.

Gumnoun

A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.

Gumnoun

A rubber overshoe.

Gumnoun

A gum tree.

Gumverb

To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.

Gumverb

(transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

Gumverb

}} To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.

Gumverb

To stiffen with glue or gum.

Gumverb

}} To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

Gumnoun

The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

Gumnoun

A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

Gumnoun

See Gum tree, below.

Gumnoun

A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.

Gumnoun

A rubber overshoe.

Gumverb

To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

Gumverb

To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.

Gumverb

To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.

Gumverb

To exude or form gum; to become gummy.

Gumnoun

a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing

Gumnoun

the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

Gumnoun

any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying

Gumnoun

cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

Gumnoun

wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

Gumnoun

any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

Gumverb

grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty;

Gumverb

exude or form gum;