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caulklike

caulklike adjective: resembling or characteristic of caulk.

Adjective

caulklike (comparative more caulklike, superlative most caulklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of caulk.
    • While confident that a repair was within the capabilities of the astronauts, mission managers also want to avoid unnecessary risks. Mr. Shannon said that this type of spacewalk, underneath the shuttle, had never been done before, that the tool for squirting a caulklike material into the gouge had...2007 August 16, Kenneth Chang, “Shuttle Crew Is Told to Study for Repairs, as NASA Wavers”, in New York Times

Forms of caulklike

comparativemore caulklike
superlativemost caulklike

Origin of caulklike

From caulk + -like.

Questions about caulklike

What does caulklike mean?
Caulklike means resembling or characteristic of caulk.
What part of speech is caulklike?
Caulklike is an adjective.

Words near caulklike in the dictionary

  1. caulking iron
  2. caulking irons
  3. caulking off
  4. caulkings
  5. caulkins
  6. caulklike
  7. caulks
  8. caulks off
  9. caulky
  10. caulobacter
  11. caulobacters

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