Definitions for adhesive

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adhesive ad·he·sive

Spelling: [ad-hee-siv, -ziv]

IPA: /ædˈhi sɪv, -zɪv/

Adhesive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in adhesive (adeehisv).

Definitions for adhesive

noun

1. a substance that causes something to adhere, as glue or rubber cement.
2. adhesive tape.
3. Philately. a postage stamp with a gummed back, as distinguished from one embossed or printed on an envelope or card.

adjective

1. coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance:
2. sticking fast; sticky; clinging.
3. Physics. of or relating to the molecular force that exists in the area of contact between unlike bodies and that acts to unite them.

Origin of adhesive

First recorded in 1660-70; adhes(ion) + -ive

Examples for adhesive

This was an adhesive, and used some years after stamps were in use.

Do not let the most adhesive of food betray you into this most disagreeable of habits.

An adhesive plaster is in popular language a sticking-plaster.

I was informed that Decaisne has written a paper on these adhesive threads.

Utilised because of adhesive qualities for throwing at a target as darts.

adhesive is the scientific, sticking or sticky the popular word.

There are two bottles of medium, one adhesive and one preservative.

Have you ever seen 11 players with a relationship so adhesive to the ball?

Then, the merkin is applied with an adhesive; Ledermann uses a matte substance by Telesis.

The stiff, wet clay, adhesive to the foot, impeded progress.