ADHESIVES Synonyms

• concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement

• a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar

• something that hardens to act as adhesive material

• any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth

• a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth

• make fast as if with cement

• cover or coat with cement

• bind or join with or as if with cement

• a thermosetting resin; used chiefly in strong adhesives and coatings and laminates

• glue with epoxy

• cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

• join or attach with or as if with glue

• be fixed as if by glue

• a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing

• the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

• any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying

• cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

• wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

• any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

• cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum

• grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty

• become sticky

• exude or form gum

• an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes

• a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler

• an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin

• any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

• a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry

• an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

• a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes

• join or attach with or as if with glue

• hit with the fists

• cover the surface of

• a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass

• apply putty in order to fix or fill

• any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules

• a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)

• a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together

• a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together