Adhesives - English meaning

noun

A cover for holding magazines or loose sheets of paper together.

Usage examples:

What covers my binders, folders, notebooks, and textbooks?

noun

A stiff cover that can hold loose papers, often having a part that fastens them

Usage examples:

A three-ring binder

noun

A short document showing an agreement between a buyer and a seller, used for a short period while the complete document is being prepared

Usage examples:

A binder agreement, in the case of a real estate purchase, a binder contains the basic terms of the…

noun

The establishment of a relationship or link with someone based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences.

Usage examples:

We were friendly to each other, but there was no bonding

adjective

Having the function of joining things securely, especially by means of an adhesive substance, heat, or pressure.

Usage examples:

A bonding agent

verb

Join or be joined securely to something else, especially by means of an adhesive substance, heat, or pressure.

Usage examples:

Press the material to bond the layers together

noun

A powdery substance made by calcining lime and clay, mixed with water to form mortar or mixed with sand, gravel, and water to make concrete.

Usage examples:

We were having some building work done and there was cement, sand and mortar lying around.

verb

Fix with cement.

Usage examples:

Wooden posts were cemented into the ground

noun

A gray powder that is mixed with water, sand, and other substances, becomes very hard when dry, and is used in making concrete

Usage examples:

There weren’t any chairs, so she sat on the cement., the dentist cemented the tooth back in place.,…

noun

A chemical substance used to preserve or stabilize biological material prior to microscopy or other examination.

Usage examples:

An alcoholic fixative

adjective

(of a substance) used to fix or stabilize something.

Usage examples:

They determined whether use of fixative fluid, organic solvent, or both might contribute to the low…

noun

A substance that holds something in position

Usage examples:

A fixative for dentures

noun

An adhesive substance used for sticking objects or materials together.

Usage examples:

Waterproof glue

verb

Fasten or join with or as if with glue.

Usage examples:

The wood is cut into pieces which are then glued together

noun

A sticky substance used for joining things

Usage examples:

I’ll just glue the handle back on the cup.

noun

A viscous secretion of some trees and shrubs that hardens on drying but is soluble in water, and from which adhesives and other products are made.

Usage examples:

The raw silk fiber actually consists of two filaments called fibroin bound by a soluble silk gum ca…

verb

Short for chewing gum or bubblegum.

verb

Chew (something) with toothless gums.

Usage examples:

The two-year-old gummed his mother's plastic-coated ration card

noun

A viscous secretion or bodily fluid.

Usage examples:

It has also been suggested that it reduces soil mechanical impedance by means of its secretion of s…

noun

A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid.

Usage examples:

Blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste

verb

Coat with paste.

Usage examples:

When coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric

noun

A thick, wet substance used for sticking things together, or any soft, wet mixture of powder and liquid

Usage examples:

Use paste, glue, or tape to attach the pictures., tomato paste, she pasted a heart onto the valenti…

noun

Material used for sealing something so as to make it airtight or watertight.

Usage examples:

Blobs of silicone sealant

noun

A substance such as paint or polish that is painted onto a surface to protect it from other liquids going into it, or is put in the space between two materials for the same reason

noun

A device or substance used to seal something.

Usage examples:

A vacuum sealer extends the time wine remains drinkable

noun

A ship or person engaged in hunting seals.

Usage examples:

Shipped from england to port jackson, he served seven years for theft, but later became a sealer, e…

noun

A sticky or adhesive substance; gum or paste.

Usage examples:

Wash plate thoroughly to remove any stickum

noun

A brand name for a very strong, quick-drying glue