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adhesing

adhesing is the present participle and gerund of adhese.

Meaning of adhese

Verb

adhese (third-person singular simple present adheses, present participle adhesing, simple past and past participle adhesed)

  1. To attach adhesively or via adhesives.
    • The windows of some are cemented on but preferably adhesed without any cement (a process of adhesing without cement was developed in the Hilger laboratories:[…]1949, G. F. Lothian, Absorption Spectrophotometry, page 171
  2. To unite via adhesion (abnormal union of surface).
    • Q. Freeing up the nerve relates to what? A. Freeing up the nerve would not mean that he would try to carefully dissect the nerve from anything that it may be attached to. Q. Adhesed to? A. Attached or adhesed to. Q. Okay. Why?1977, Boyd v. City of Wyandotte, 402 MICH 98 (1977): Plaintiff-Appellant's Appendix on Appeal, page 353

Questions about adhesing

What is adhesing the present participle and gerund of?
Adhesing is the present participle and gerund of adhese.

Words near adhesing in the dictionary

  1. adhesibility
  2. adhesible
  3. adhesin
  4. adhesine
  5. adhesines
  6. adhesing
  7. adhesins
  8. adhesiogenesis
  9. adhesiogenic
  10. adhesiolysis
  11. adhesiolytic

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