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Definitions: Adhesive |
AdhesiveAdjective1. Tending to adhere. Noun1. A substance that unites or bonds surfaces together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adhesive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | May be of animal, vegetable or mineral origin, e. g. , dextrin, glue, tar, gum, asphalt or latex. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are many sources and types of adhesive. Many early adhesives were made by rendering animal products, and these are still used today. Native Americans melted down buffalo hooves to make glue.
These adhesives are either applied hot, and simply allowed to harden as they cool, or are a mixture of ingredients (typically polymers) dissolved in a solvent. As the solvent evaporates, the adhesive hardens. These adhesives are typically weaker, and are used for household applications.
These most commonly come in two separate containers, and the two ingredients of the adhesive must be mixed in certain proportions immediately before application. Some epoxy resin adhesives are supplied in this form. Generally one ingredient is a monomer, or resin, and the second is a reaction initialiser. When the two are mixed together, a polymerisation reaction occurs which solidifies the adhesive.
Reaction adhesives may also react with the surface of the materials to be stuck together. This is bonding, in which the adhesive forms chemical bonds with the material, and is distinct from sticking, the action of common glues.
A special case of this kind of adhesive is so-called "super glue", which reacts with moisture in the air, and therefore does not need any mixing before application.
This type of adhesive is very strong, and is used for high-stress applications, such as attaching wings to aircraft.
Another kind of specialist adhesives are the temporary adhesives designed to stick and unstick, such as those used in Blu-tack and Post-It Notes.Categories of adhesives
Drying adhesives
Reactive adhesives
Temporary adhesives
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adhesive."
Synonym: AdhesiveSynonym: adhesive material (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonadhesive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; (solidify); agglomerate. Adjective: cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering; Verb: tenacious, tough; sticky. |
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Thomas C. Haliburton | Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. |
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Health | The product is an adhesive patch containing lidocaine, a commonly used local anesthetic. (references) | |
If pinworms are suspected, transparent adhesive tape (often called the "scotch tape test") or a pinworm paddle (supplied by your health care provider) are applied to the anal region. (references) | ||
A patch is an adhesive material containing hormones that is placed on the lower abdomen or buttocks and changed once or twice a week. Sometimes the patch contains estrogen and a progestin pill is used to supplement it, if needed. (references) | ||
Business | China plans to locally develop adhesives and adhesive emulsion, with a planned total output of 2 million tons and 350,000 tons, respectively. (references) | |
French Rhone-Poulenc set up a JV in Jiangxi to produce organic silicon adhesive products, a JV in Wuxi to produce industrial surfactant, and one in Suzhou to produce acrylic ester, lubricating agents and dyestuff auxiliaries. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | This presents a good opportunity for US suppliers of paper products including paper and paper board, filter paper, self adhesive paper, printed labels, newsprint and other articles of the paper industry. (references) |
Trade | Venezuela | Imported cigarettes are also subject to this type of measure and adhesive labels are not allowed. (references) |
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| "Adhesive" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.44% of the time. "Adhesive" is used about 203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.44% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 29.56% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Total | 100.00% | 203 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adhesive": Adhesive attraction ♦ adhesive bandage ♦ adhesive friction ♦ Adhesive inflammation ♦ adhesive layer ♦ adhesive material ♦ adhesive medium ♦ adhesive paper ♦ Adhesive plaster ♦ Adhesive slate ♦ adhesive strength ♦ adhesive tape ♦ animal adhesive ♦ Diem's adhesive foil instrument ♦ Fibrin Tissue Adhesive ♦ news and pamphlets free from adhesive bindings ♦ nonadhesive vs adhesive ♦ overissue pamphlets and magazines free from adhesive binding ♦ P.F.2)phenolic adhesive ♦ resin adhesive. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "adhesive": adhesive-backed, adhesive-bonded. | |
Ending with "adhesive": non-adhesive. | |
Containing "adhesive": self-adhesive tape. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adhesive | 582 |
adhesive tape | 182 |
adhesive anisotropic conductive | 161 |
adhesive label | 138 |
adhesive capsulitis | 91 |
3m adhesive | 80 |
pressure sensitive adhesive | 59 |
high temperature adhesive | 57 |
contact adhesive | 51 |
industrial adhesive | 48 |
adhesive epoxy | 47 |
adhesive remover | 47 |
hot melt adhesive | 40 |
adhesive bra | 38 |
dentures adhesive | 37 |
spray adhesive | 37 |
adhesive applicator | 35 |
adhesive film | 33 |
tile adhesive | 32 |
cyanoacrylate adhesive | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adhesive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | kleefband (adhesive tape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngjitës (agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous), mbështetës (alimentary, backing, friend, help, recliner, recumbent, staff, supporting, sustaining, sustentive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مادة سريعة التماسك, لزج (adherent, clingy, glairy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, ropy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, tough, viscid, viscous), لاصق (agglutinant, cohesive, glued, gluey, stuck), سريع الإلتصاق (adherent), دبق (clingy, fatty, gelation, glutinous, gummy, limy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свързващ (associative, cohesive, communicant, joining), слепяващо вещество, цимент (cement, stopping), с лепило, натрапчив (compulsive, intrusive, meddlesome, obtrusive, officious, pragmatic, pragmatical, pushy), марка с лепило, лепкав (adherent, clammy, clayey, gluey, glutinous, gluttonous, gooey, gummy, limy, smeary, sticky, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, treacly), леплив (gluey, limy, viscid, viscous), лепило (glue, gum, mucilage, paste, size). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 胶粘剂. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | adhezní, lepkavý (clammy, gluey, glutinous, gooey, limy, smeary, sticky, tacky), lepidlo (glue, gum, mucilage, paste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | antistripping - additiv (antistripping agent), affald fra fremstilling,formulering,distribution og brug af maling,fernis og keramisk emalje samt fugemasser og trykfarver (formulation, sealants and printing inks, supply and use(MFSU)of coatings(paints, varnishes and vitreous enamels), wastes from the manufacture), adhaesiv, adhæsiv, tilhaeftende, klaebestoff, klæbestof, klæbemiddel, bindemiddel (adhesive medium, agglutinant, binder, binding agent, bonding agent, bonding material, cement, excipient, fastener, fastening, paint vehicle, vehicle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | plakmiddel, adhesief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | heftiplástur (adhesive plaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چسبیده (Clung, Coherent), چسبنده (Gooey, Gummy, Inherent, Innate, Sticky, Tenacious), چسبدار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tarttuva (contagious, infectious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | colle, adhésif (adherent, adhering agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Klebstoff (cement, emplastic, glue, glueing, gum, mucilage, paste, size, sizing), anhaftend (adherent, inherent, inherently, inhering), selbstklebend (self-adhesive, self-stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολλώδησ (gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, tacky, viscid, viscous), κολλητική ουσία (agglutinant, binder, bonding material), συγκόλληση (adherence, adhesion, agglutination, brazed oe soldered joint, cable splicing, clumping, coalescence, solder, soldering, solding, splice, splicing, sticking, sticking together, union, weld, welding), συγκολλητικόσ (agglutinant, agglutinative), συγκολλητικό (solder), προσκολλητική ύλη (antistripping agent), προσκολλητική ουσία (filming agent, sticker), αυτοκολλητό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ביק (gluey, glutinous, pasty, sticky, viscous), "בקי (glutinous, sticky, viscid), צמי'י (ropy, sticky, viscose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tapadó (adherent, clinging, cohesive, tacky), ragadós (adherent, dauby, gluey, glutinous, gummy, lentous, mucilaginous, sticky, stiff, tacky, viscid, viscous), enyvezett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bahan perekat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adesivo (adherent, adhering agent, adhesion, bonding material, sticker, sticking, sticky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 粘着剤 , 接着剤 (glue), 接合剤 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ね"ちゃくざい, せつ"うざい, せっちゃくざい (glue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 착 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiantagh (adherent, attached, clinging, consecutive, perseverant, sticky, viscid), glooie (glue, slime), gleiynagh (gelatinous, mucilaginous, slimy, sticky, viscous), gleiyagh (gluey, glutinous), gleiy (glue, gum, mucilage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adhesiveay adesivo (bonding material, clammy, clinging, Cloggy, sticker, strapping). (various references) adeziv, aderent (adherent, clinging, henchman, supporter, upholder), viscos (Cloggy, gluey, glutinous, viscid, viscous), lipicios (agglutinative, gluey, glutinous, gummy, limy, mucous, slimy, sticky, tacky, unctuous, viscous), leucoplast, insistent (assertive, assiduous, clamant, importunate, insistent, insistently, instant, pressing, pushing, urgent, urgently), cleios (Cloggy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, limy, pasty, slack-baked, sticky, viscid, viscous). (various references) сцепной, клей (cement, glue, gum, paste, size, sticker), вязкий (adherent, filmy, plastery, semi-fluid, stringy, tensile, viscous), липкий (clingy, dauby, gluey, glutinous, goo, gooey, gummy, lentous, ropy, sticky, tacky, viscous). (various references) righinn (elastic, flexible; dilatory, pliant, tough). (various references) adheziv, lepljiva materija, lepljiv (adherent, agglutinative, clammy, cloggy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, sticking, sticky, tacky, treacly). (various references) adhesivo (adherent, adhering agent, bonding material, filming agent, stick on, sticker). (various references) vidhäftande, bindemedel (adhesive medium, binder, binding agent, bonding, bonding agent, co-solvent, coupling agent, excipient, vehicle). (various references) zamk (cement, glue, gum, mucilage), yapıştırıcı (bond, glue, gum), yapışkan (adherent, agglutinate, clamant, clammy, clinging, clingy, cohesive, gluey, glutinous, greasy, gummy, like a limpet, mucilaginous, ropy, sticking, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), tutkal (bond, cement, glue, paste, seccotine, size), sadık (constant, devoted, devout, faithful, loyal, obedient, stanch, staunch, true blue, true-hearted, trusty), bağlı (adherent, affiliated, amenable, appurtenant, attached, banded, bonded, bound, cohesive, conditional, conjoint, connected, consequent, corded, dependant, dependent, devoted, faithful, germane, hooked, incidental, laced, observant, related, subject, subject to, subordinate, tied, under). (various references) клейкий (adherent, agglutinative, clammy, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, mucilaginous, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), настирливий (aggressive, hard bitten, importunate, obstinate, obtrusive), липкий (agglutinative, clammy, sticky, tacky). (various references) dính (glutinous, limy, viscid, viscous), chất dính (agglutinant), chất dán, bám chắc. (various references) ymlynol, glynol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | glutino. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adhesive": adhesively, adhesiveness, adhesivenesses, adhesives. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "adhesive": nonadhesive. (additional references) | |
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"Adhesive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adheasive, adhensive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adhesive" (pronounced adhē"siv or udhē"siv) |
| 5 | -h ē" s i v | cohesive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
| 5 | -h ē" s i v | cohesive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-s-v" | |
-1 letter: advisee, heavies, sheaved. | |
-2 letters: advise, davies, deaves, devise, evades, heaved, heaves, shaved, shavie, sheave, sieved, visaed, viseed. | |
-3 letters: aedes, aides, ashed, aside, dashi, deash, deave, devas, divas, dives, eased, eaved, eaves, evade, hades, haves, heads, heave, heeds, hides, hived, hives, ideas, sadhe, saved, shade, shave, shied, shiva, shive, sieve, vised. | |
-4 letters: aide, aids, aves, avid, dahs, dais, dash, dees, deva, devs, dies, dish, diva, dive, ease, eave, edhs, eide, eves, hade, haed, haes, have, head, heed, hide, hied, hies, hive, idea, ides, sade, sadi, said, save, seed, shad, shea, shed, shiv, side, vase, vees, vide, vied, vies, visa, vise. | |
-5 letters: ads, aid, ais, ash, ave, dah, dee, dev, die, dis, edh, eds, eve, had, hae, has, hes, hid, hie, his, ids, sad, sae, sea, see, sei, sha, she, vas, vee, via, vie, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-s-v" | |
+1 letter: adhesives, evanished, shivareed. | |
+2 letters: adhesively, enravished, misbehaved. | |
+3 letters: nonadhesive. | |
+4 letters: adhesiveness. | |
+5 letters: underachieves, videographers, videographies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101000 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d h e s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0068 0065 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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