Adhesive vs. Gummy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adhesive and Gummy
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Adhesive
Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation.The use of adhesives offers certain advantages over other binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastenings, or welding. These include the ability to bind different materials together, the more efficient distribution of stress across a joint, the cost-effectiveness of an easily mechanized process, and greater flexibility in design.
Gummy
Having a viscous or sticky consistency
A gummy discharge
Adhesive
Tending to adhere; sticky.
Gummy
Toothless
A gummy grin
Adhesive
Gummed so as to adhere.
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Gummy
A small edible shark of Australasian coastal waters, with rounded teeth that it uses to crush hard-shelled prey.
Adhesive
Tending to persist; difficult if not impossible to shake off
"He feels an adhesive dread, a sudden acquaintance with the ... darker side of mankind" (George F. Will).
Gummy
A sheep that has lost or is losing its teeth.
Adhesive
A substance, such as paste or cement, that provides or promotes adhesion.
Gummy
Consisting of or containing gum.
Adhesive
Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances
Adhesive material
Adhesive tape
Gummy
Covered or clogged with or as if with gum.
Adhesive
Apt or tending to adhere; clinging
Gummy
Having the texture or properties of gum; sticky and viscid.
Adhesive
A substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion
Gummy
Showing the gums.
A gummy grin
Adhesive
Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
Gummy
Resembling gum the substance.
Adhesive
Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
Gummy
Covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Adhesive
A substance that unites or bonds surfaces together
Gummy
; fat.
Adhesive
Tending to adhere
Gummy
(Australia) gummy shark
Gummy
A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.
Gummy
A gummi candy.
Gummy
Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine.
Then rubs his gummy eyes.
Gummy
Having the properties of glue
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