Gum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The flesh around the teeth.
2. fiil To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
3. fiil To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
4. isim A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.

   “gum arabic”

5. isim Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.

   “gum benzoin”

6. isim Chewing gum.
7. isim A single piece of chewing gum.

   “Do you have a gum to spare?”

8. isim A gummi candy.
9. isim A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
10. isim A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
11. isim A rubber overshoe.
12. isim A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
13. fiil To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.

    “However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint.”

14. fiil To stiffen with glue or gum.

    “He frets like a gummed velvet.”

15. fiil To inelegantly attach into a sequence.

    “It consists in gumming together long strips of words [that] have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

16. fiil To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

    “That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.”

17. isim Initialism of genitourinary medicine.
18. isim Initialism of GUM (department store).
19. özel isim A surname.