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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "adhesive" in a sentence

    adhesive example sentences

    adhesive


    1. When she was satisfied that a wound was sufficiently packed she would squeeze it closed and the natural adhesive qualities of the web would keep it perfectly sealed


    2. ‘So the gravitational field and the adhesive tape represent a time machine?’


    3. There was a blood soaked kitchen chair set in the middle of the room with adhesive and duct tape balled up off to the sides of it


    4. through another current limiting resistor R1 (as by using an insulating adhesive (such as Elfy or Fevi-shown in the figure)


    5. They are attached to the underpants with adhesive strips, slips, or bands of some sort


    6. Company "accidently" invented a low tack, reusable adhesive


    7. to lick or alternatively, use a stamp with adhesive on the back


    8. Gary picked up a large yellow A4 sheet that had been stuck to his computer screen with a piece of adhesive tape


    9. It is a value that is “non adhesive


    10. As soon as he had finished tacking up the horses, he found some heavy-duty adhesive tape and, after taking Jai in her baby-sling, May Ling helped him to tape it securely against his chest

    11. They carefully bound the hands and feet of each unconscious body and taped each mouth with adhesive hospital tape


    12. Provided the adhesive on the tape held, a hacker could


    13. tape, fastening a loop of adhesive tape at the base of the U


    14. Geckoids also had adhesive pads on their hands and feet that allowed them to climb on any surface, and superb leg muscles that could become as hard as rock, allowing them to leap a good three meters in the air


    15. The lids were manufactured with their own adhesive, so our equipment had to heat up the seal area, then press the lid and tray together


    16. You know when that stuff dries it is a very good adhesive


    17. What you can’t repair yourself with adhesive, or needle and heavy thread, should be taken to a canvas repair specialist


    18. In the bush, a roll of waterproof adhesive tape is handy for repairs and can also be used to form temporary eyelets by overlapping the tape across the edge of the tarp, and spiking or cutting a neat hole through the double thickness of the tape


    19. To counter this, either cover them with clear adhesive Contact or, once folded to show your desired area, carry them in clear plastic envelopes


    20. First of all, we need to check the shelves and see if we can find glue or adhesive tape

    21. Midge followed, but before he had reached the shelves, Stick held up a roll of clear adhesive tape,


    22. It was hard to peel off the adhesive tape on the back


    23. After what seemed like an eternity, the professor pulled the needle out and pressed a small round adhesive bandage over the wound


    24. Adhesive glues and solvents should be avoided due to the potential for voids and


    25. Imagine a floor where some of the tiles have lifted off due to defective adhesive


    26. The lively puddle of water slithered across the tiles of the ground as one adhesive mass and trickled underneath the bottom of the locked door, disappearing from the hall


    27. glass either in an insulated metal can or by wrapping with adhesive tape


    28. Teller could almost see it outside on the sidewalk with the white cardboard sale notice stuck with adhesive tape to the edge


    29. Once an adhesive is applied to adjacent wood surfaces and the pieces are clamped


    30. First, the liquid adhesive is absorbed into the wood and its polymer

    31. either type of glue is dry, the think layer of cured adhesive between the two wood


    32. the activated glue slowly increases until after about an hour, the adhesive is too


    33. activate the adhesive, but careful mixing is necessary to avoid lumps


    34. to activate the adhesive and start the curing process, which works by chemical


    35. The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl)


    36. He closes up the envelope but, of course, does not lick the adhesive


    37. I noticed she had this big hunk of adhesive tape on her elbow


    38. " She was picking at that adhesive tape on her arm


    39. I applied the gauze pads and then wound adhesive tape around and around my hand


    40. And from all around, rooftops and stoops and passing cars, came that other adhesive: the music

    41. His feet had been tied with adhesive tape to the end of the bed


    42. I unwound the adhesive and then bent back to question him


    43. Dressings usually consist of a pad of cotton wool covered with gauze and attached to a bandage or an adhesive strip, in a sterile wrapping


    44. You will probably also find a supply of rubber patches and adhesive


    45. They all appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of lime-cream


    46. Therefore it need not be doubted that the two little folds of skin, which originally served as ovigerous frena, but which, likewise, very slightly aided in the act of respiration, have been gradually converted by natural selection into branchiae, simply through an increase in their size and the obliteration of their adhesive glands


    47. Other similar cases could be given; for instance in plants, the very curious contrivance of a mass of pollen-grains, borne on a foot-stalk with an adhesive gland, is apparently the same in Orchis and Asclepias, genera almost as remote as is possible among flowering plants; but here again the parts are not homologous


    48. When first taken out it was soft, white, and very slightly adhesive, from a little moisture; but, when dry, fell to powder without friction


    49. Its colour is a greenish yellow; it is brittle, very adhesive to the tongue, but little unctuous, and probably contains more alumine and less magnesia than steatites in general


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    Synonyms for "adhesive"

    adhesive adhesive agent adhesive material super glue epoxy adhesive tape mucilage adhering adherent sticky gummy

    "adhesive" definitions

    a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together


    tending to adhere