Adhesive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adhesive \Ad*he"sive\, a. [Cf. F. adh['e]sif.]
     1. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
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     2. Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. --Thomson.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adhesive
       adj : tending to adhere [ant: {nonadhesive}]
       n : a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together [syn: {adhesive
           material}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "adhesive":
     adherent, affixation, amylaceous, annexation, attachment, barnacle,
     binding, birdlime, bond, bramble, brier, bulldog, bulldogged,
     bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, burr, cement, clabbered,
     clammy, clasping, clingy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, decal,
     decalcomania, doughy, fastener, fastening, fish glue, gaumy,
     gelatinous, girding, glairy, glue, gluelike, gluey, gluten,
     glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gum, gumbo,
     gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunk, heavy, hooking,
     inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, knot, lashing, leech,
     library paste, ligation, lime, limpet, lute, mastic, molasses,
     mucilage, mucilaginous, obstinate, paste, pasty, persistent,
     plaster, prickle, putty, remora, ropy, rubber cement, sealing wax,
     self-adhesive, size, slabby, slimy, slithery, solder, splice,
     starchy, stickable, sticker, sticking, sticky, stodgy, stringy,
     stubborn, syrup, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, thorn,
     tieing, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous,
     wafer, zipping