 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adhesive
adjective: tending to adhere [ant: {nonadhesive}]
noun: a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together [syn: {adhesive
material}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adhesive \Ad*he"sive\, adjective [Cf. F. adh['e]sif.]
1. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
2. 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.
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
|
