TACKIFIER Synonyms

• a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves

• something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface

• holds loose papers or magazines

• something used to tie or bind

• 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

• 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