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Adhesive vs. Gummy — What's the Difference?

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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