| 单词 | adhesive |
| 释义 | adhesive (once / 6022 pages) adjn An adhesive is something sticky that holds things together. Use an adhesive to repair a cracked plate. Adhesive comes from the Latin adhaerere, meaning "stick to," which is precisely what something adhesive does — it sticks to things. An adhesive bonds surfaces together. It's the sticky side on a roll of duct tape that causes it to be so effective. The word can be used to describe both the substance itself: to use an adhesive, for example — or its property of stickiness: an adhesive bandage sticks to the skin. WORD FAMILYadhesive: adhesively, adhesiveness, adhesives, nonadhesive+/adhere: adhered, adherent, adheres, adhering, adhesion, adhesive/adherence: adherences/adherent: adherence, adherents/adhesion: adhesions USAGE EXAMPLESAs most of us are aware, tape purchased at the drugstore is a low-grade adhesive product that loses its stickiness with distressing rapidity. Salon(Dec 02, 2016) Back at the State Department, as Raphel’s co-workers watched, plainclothes investigators snapped pictures in her office and put adhesive seals on the doors. Wall Street Journal(Dec 02, 2016) It holds three pairs of lashes, includes a mirror and has additional storage space for tweezers, lash adhesive or another small item. Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1adj tending to adhere Syn|Ant adherent sticking fast agglutinate, agglutinativeunited as if by glue bondablecapable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass coherent, tenacioussticking together cohesivecausing cohesion gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscoushaving the sticky properties of an adhesive gooey, ickysoft and sticky gum-likeresembling chewing gum gummed, gummycovered with adhesive gum pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarryhaving the characteristics of pitch or tar self-sealingseals without the application of moisture stick-onof something (a paper label or postage stamp) gummed in advance stickycovered with an adhesive material nonadhesive not tending to adhere nonglutinous, nonviscidnot resembling glue in texture non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresinous, nonresinynot having resin ungummednot treated with adhesive gum 2n a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together Syn|Hypo|Hyper adhesive agent, adhesive material birdlime, lime a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds spirit guman adhesive solution made of gum and ether and used to attach false hair to skin bindersomething used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface cementsomething that hardens to act as adhesive material library paste, pastean adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard rubber cementan adhesive made by dissolving unvulcanized rubber in a solvent like benzene or naphtha glue, gum, mucilagecement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive puttya dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass iron puttya cement resembling putty; made by mixing ferric oxide and boiled linseed oil; is acid resistant red-lead puttya cement resembling putty; made by mixing white and red lead in boiled linseed oil; used as luting on pipe fittings mastica pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler wafera small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
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