Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an adhesive manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an adhesive manner.

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  • adverb In a adhesive manner; by adhesion.

Etymologies

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adhesive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The layers may be laminate cured together to form a single, integral structure (2) or such laminates adhesively bonded to a honeycomb (12).

    Think Progress » Bill O’Reilly: 2007

  • The healing processes from one metamorphic stage to the next stage are expected to yield more reliable bio-electromechanical interface to insects, as compared to adhesively bonded systems to adult insects.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • The healing processes from one metamorphic stage to the next stage are expected to yield more reliable bio-electromechanical interface to insects, as compared to adhesively bonded systems to adult insects.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • The finer the material, the more water is adhesively bound to the surface, and the longer it takes to dry.

    17.1 Drying oven 1993

  • Wrapped around the cylinder was a sheet of tinfoil, with which engaged a small chisel-like recording needle, connected adhesively with the centre of an iron diaphragm.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • Wrapped around the cylinder was a sheet of tinfoil, with which engaged a small chisel-like recording needle, connected adhesively with the centre of an iron diaphragm.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • Doll's round head was over the side, his long legs spread adhesively in the bottom of the boat.

    Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • Now she would have flown if she could, but her long night dress impeded her motions, and clung adhesively round her ankles.

    Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

  • The ripened topical conversation has adhesively broadened as a plausible discussion's trajectory from the firing point of iconography.

    Examiner National Edition Channel Articles 2010

  • In general RFID labels are adhesively attached to a surface whereas tags are secured by other means such as plastic fasteners or string.

    FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 06/03/2010 2010

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