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"ADHESIVES" is a plural of: adhesive. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Substances that cause the adherence of two surfaces. They include glues (properly collagen-derived adhesives), mucilages, sticky pastes, gums, resins, or latex. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ADHESIVESSynonyms: Glue, Glues. (additional references) |
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Business | A Korean company invested in Jiangsu province's Changshu to produce adhesives. (references) | |
However, adhesives for maintenance work and repairs for imported vehicles still rely on imports. (references) | ||
Raw materials and equipment for the manufacturing of thermosol adhesives and polyurethane adhesives need to be imported. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bulgaria | U.S. value-added building products that may have very good market prospects include wooden and vinyl windows, doors, flooring and kitchen cabinets, suspended ceilings, insulation, adhesives, cements, roofing shingles, heating and ventilation equipment, air conditioning, refrigeration and cooling systems, steel buildings and fabrications. (references) |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | Import duties on 109 goods, where the rates are not consistent with rates on goods from the same category (including adhesives, lingerie, and linens) have been reduced from between 25 and 30 percent to between 0 and 25 percent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADHESIVES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ADHESIVES" is used about 60 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 (plural) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ADHESIVES": Tissue Adhesives. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ADHESIVES": packaging-to-adhesives, self-adhesives. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ADHESIVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | affald fra fremstilling,formulering,distribution og brug af klæbestoffer og fugemasser(herunder tætningsmidler) (wastes from the MFSU of adhesives and sealants(including waterproofing products)), klæbestofslam (adhesives sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afval van bereiding,formulering,levering en gebruik van lijm en kit(inclusief vochtwerende produkten) (wastes from the MFSU of adhesives and sealants(including waterproofing products)), lijmslib (adhesives sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | assemblage par adhésifs (assembly for adhesives), boue de colle (adhesives sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Klebstoffe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λάσπη κόλλας (adhesives sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adesivi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adhesivesay adesivos. (various references) клейкое вещество (mucilage). (various references) adhesivos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"ADHESIVES" 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 "ADHESIVES" (pronounced adhē"sivz or udhē"sivz) |
| 4 | -s i v z | abrasives, exclusives, explosives, offensives, progressives, subversives. |
| 3 | -i v z | actives, additives, adjectives, alternatives, captives, collectives, conservatives, contraceptives, cooperatives, derivatives, detectives, directives, disincentives, electives, executives, expletives, fixatives, fugitives, imperatives, incentives, initiatives, laxatives, locomotives, motives, narratives, natives, negatives, neoconservatives, objectives, octaves, olives, operatives, palliatives, perspectives, positives, prerogatives, preservatives, preventatives, relatives, representatives, superlatives. |
| 4 | -s i v z | abrasives, exclusives, explosives, offensives, progressives, subversives. |
| 3 | -i v z | actives, additives, adjectives, alternatives, captives, collectives, conservatives, contraceptives, cooperatives, derivatives, detectives, directives, disincentives, electives, executives, expletives, fixatives, fugitives, imperatives, incentives, initiatives, laxatives, locomotives, motives, narratives, natives, negatives, neoconservatives, objectives, octaves, olives, operatives, palliatives, perspectives, positives, prerogatives, preservatives, preventatives, relatives, representatives, superlatives. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-s-s-v" | |
-1 letter: adhesive, advisees. | |
-2 letters: advisee, advises, deashes, devises, disease, dissave, heavies, seaside, shavies, sheaved, sheaves. | |
-3 letters: advise, asides, daises, dashes, dashis, dassie, davies, deaves, devise, dieses, dishes, easies, evades, heaved, heaves, hissed, sadhes, sashed, seised, shades, shaved, shaves, shavie, sheave, shivas, shives, sieved, sieves, visaed, viseed. | |
-4 letters: aedes, aides, ashed, ashes, aside, assed, dashi, deash. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-s-s-v" | |
+3 letters: adhesiveness. | |
+5 letters: adhesivenesses. | |
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