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adhesive

adj
/ədˈhiː.sɪv/UK/ədˈhi.sɪv/CA/ədˈhiː.sɪv/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin adhaesivusbor. French adhésifder. English adhesive From French adhésif, from Medieval Latin adhaesivus, from adhaereō (supine adhaesum); see adhere.

  1. derived from adhaesivus
  2. derived from adhésif

Definitions

  1. Sticky

    Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

    • adhesive material
    • adhesive tape

  2. Apt or tending to adhere

    Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

  3. a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion

    • The label wouldn’t stick without strong adhesive.
    • They used an adhesive to repair the broken vase.
    • The company developed a new kind of waterproof adhesive.

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Derived

adhesive bandage, adhesive capsulitis, adhesively, adhesivemeter, adhesiveness, adhesive tape, adhesive trap, adhesivity, antiadhesive, bioadhesive, coadhesive, counteradhesive, cytoadhesive, denture adhesive, disadhesive, hot melt adhesive, hyperadhesive, mucoadhesive, multiadhesive, nonadhesive, proadhesive, readhesive, self-adhesive, thermoadhesive, unadhesive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adhesive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adhesive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at adhesive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA