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• The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.From the entry tack
• Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.From the entry fume
• The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.From the entry groovy
• Eublepharid geckos lack adhesive toepads and, unlike other geckos, have movable eyelids.From the entry toepad
• Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.From the entry development
• Jon resinified the chemical adhesive by mixing its two components.From the entry resinify
• Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.From the entry seam
• Besides bondline thickness control, the adhesive fillet (called adhesive spew) is an important issue in joint assembly.2018, Sergio T. Amancio Filho, Jorge F. dos Santos, Lucian-Attila Blaga, Joining of Polymer-Metal Hybrid Structures: Principles and…. From the entry spew
• Therefore, the adhesive role of type XIV collagen may interact with type I collagen, PRELP and angiomotin.2015 July 16, “Quantitative LC-MS/MS Analysis of Proteins Involved in Metastasis of Breast Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry angiomotin
• I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman…. From the entry bed
• A common step usually ignored in self-etch adhesives is the air-drying after adhesive application.2014, Michelle Sunico-Segarra, Armin Segarra, A Practical Clinical Guide to Resin Cements, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry self-etch
• The adhesive is applied to the weft with an applicator gun.2012, Cengage Learning, Milady Standard Cosmetology, page 556. From the entry weft
• You have to choose between PSA (pressure sensitive adhesive and H&L (hook-and-loop) disks.1999 October, “Shop test: Random orbit sanders”, in American Woodworker, number 75, Reader's Digest, page 66. From the entry H&L
• Sinks can also be undermounted — attached to the underside of the counter with clips or adhesive.1999, Ask the Family Handy-man, Reader’s Digest, page 221. From the entry undermounted
• One of the bows had been mended with adhesive tape, and one of the lenses was cracked.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things. From the entry bow
• The shaped nappy needs no folding and is fastened by two adhesive 'touch tabs'.1978, Equipment for the Disabled, volume 5, Oxford Regional Health Authority, page 11. From the entry shaped nappy
• Pete, decided to take a knee and adjust the adhesive tape that's wrapped around his street shoes.1972 November 6, Tim Wood, “Tale of the tape and dig those shoes”, in The Tampa Times, page 31. From the entry take a knee
• The spew is the result of the adhesive squeezed out of the lap region at the moment of the joint manufacture.2018, Sergio T. Amancio Filho, Jorge F. dos Santos, Lucian-Attila Blaga, Joining of Polymer-Metal Hybrid Structures: Principles and…. From the entry spew
• Water is an essential component of self-etch adhesives as it is needed in the ionization of acidic monomers.2017, Pekka Vallittu, Mutlu Özcan, Clinical Guide to Principles of Fiber-Reinforced Composites in Dentistry, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry self-etch
• History itself is fantasticized, or it could be said that it is somehow contaminated by its adhesive contact with fantastic.2015, Ib Johansen, Walking Shadows: Reflections on the American Fantastic and American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern…. From the entry fantasticize
• The potential uses for gecko-inspired adhesive products are nearly endless.2014, Wil Mara, From Gecko Feet to Adhesive Tape (Innovations from Nature), Ann Arbor, Mich.: Cherry Lake Publishing, →ISBN, pages 21–22. From the entry gecko
• In the bonding method of attaching hair extensions, hair wefts or single strands are attached with an adhesive or bonding agent.2012, Cengage Learning, Milady Standard Cosmetology, page 556. From the entry weft
• Lay the folded endpaper flat, fold facing left, and apply spray adhesive to the paper on the exposed half.2011, Carol Endler Sterbenz, Homemade: The Heart and Science of Handcrafts, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry endpaper
• Their nails are glued on with a shoe adhesive.2007 July 16, Leslie Feinberg, “How La Güinera made room for more gender”, in Workers World. From the entry acetate
• This "shocky" peel is related to the increased stiffening and glass-like behavior of the adhesive at increasing peel rate.2003, Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz, Herman Francis Mark, Encyclopedia of polymer science and technology, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry shocky
• The PVC was then sealed to the plastered foundation with a 3-inch-wide band of PVC-to-concrete adhesive applied above the Thiokol.1974, Ruins Stabilization in the Southwestern United States, page 40. From the entry seal
• We first determined the microtensile bond strength of commercially available adhesive resins to dentin surface in the presence of salivary components ( Figure 7 ).2015 July 15, Sang-Bae Lee et al., “Catechol-Functionalized Synthetic Polymer as a Dental Adhesive to Contaminated Dentin Surface for a…. From the entry microtensile
• The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails.2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman…. From the entry bed
• Cross a gecko with a mussel and what comes out is a new type of adhesive tape that can repeatedly stick and restick, even underwater.2007 July 24, Kenneth Chang, “Design by Gecko, Plus Glue by Mussel, Yields a Powerful Adhesive”, in New York Times. From the entry restick
• Press the smalti into the adhesive in a rainbow pattern along the frame, with as small a gap as possible between the pieces.2005, Reham Aarti Jacobsen, Mosaics for the First Time, page 38. From the entry smalto
• Vinyl comes in a wide variety of colors, has a strong adhesive bond, and can be put onto a variety of smooth surfaces.1996, Beverly Serrell, Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach, Walnut Creek, C.A. […]: Altamira Press, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry prespaced
• If the seam still refuses to stay flat, it will have to be held down, giving the adhesive more time to cure.1992 February 15, Gene Austin, “How to mend vinyl wallpaper seams”, in The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, M.D.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN…. From the entry flat stick
• A man of adhesive intelligence and energy, at ease with strong words and bold actions, he did not merely scholasticize his ideas, he lived them.1989, Scott Nearing, Steve Sherman, A Scott Nearing Reader: The Good Life in Bad Times, page xiii. From the entry scholasticize
• Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation.2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry. From the entry overbulk
• The setae are part of an adhesive system that allows geckos to maneuver on a wide variety of substrates, to run upside-down, and to arrest their falls.2009 January, Ginel Corina Hill, “Introduction”, in Dual-axis MEMS Force Sensors for Gecko Adhesion Studies (unpublished Ph.D.…. From the entry gecko
• The invariant occurrence of adhesive EPS at both the driving and the non-driving raphes supports a model for constitutive, rather than induced, secretion of the raphe adhesive.2007, Andrew M. Smith, James A. Callow, Biological Adhesives, page 87. From the entry raphe
• Mucus is cohesive and tractile, and is not very adhesive or brittle (even when considerably desiccated) as are the casts commonly referred to as true casts.1916, B[yron] G. R. Williams, “Microscopic Uranalyses”, in Practical Uranalyses, St. Louis, Mo.: C. V. Mosby Company, →OCLC, page 126. From the entry tractile

Meaning of adhesive

1. adjective Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
2. adjective Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
3. noun A substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion.

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How do you use adhesive in a sentence?

Adhesive is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The label wouldn’t stick without strong adhesive.”

What is a short sentence with adhesive?

“The label wouldn’t stick without strong adhesive.”

What does adhesive mean?

Adhesive means sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.