Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having relatively high resistance to flow.
- adjective Viscid; sticky.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Glutinous; clammy; sticky; adhesive; tenacious.
- In physics, having the property of viscosity. See
viscosity , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
thick ,sticky consistency between solid and liquid - adjective physics Of or pertaining to
viscosity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the sticky properties of an adhesive
- adjective having a relatively high resistance to flow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Grandbois: The last time I heard anything remotely flattering about Buckwaldo Mudthumper I was three feet deep in viscous sewage that had found its way into my garden apartment at the behest of one Mr. Juan Mandible Sick-Eyes and his uncompromising hoses.
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The baba ghanouj was actually tasty but overly pureed so it slid through my fork in viscous dribbles.
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As unappealing as such things are to me, it's more ... a fear of being choked, of drowing in viscous substances.
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As unappealing as such things are to me, it's more ... a fear of being choked, of drowing in viscous substances.
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He can't understand the word viscous in viscous turd.
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He can't understand the word viscous in viscous turd.
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Has to do with warming the fluid in what's called a viscous clutch mechanism.
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P. intermedia strain 17 was isolated from a chronic periodontitis lesion in our laboratory and described as a viscous material producing strain.
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Instead of resonating, sound waves plunge into the channels and dissipate through a process called viscous shear.
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