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gum English

Meaning gum meaning

What does gum mean?
Definitions in simple English

gum Noun

— A thick liquid that come from plants or trees that hardens into solids. — A thick liquid such as a resin or glue.

gum Verb

— To chew something; often used when a toothless person or animal chews something. That old dog's been gumming that bone for hours. — To apply an adhesive or gum to something. — As "gum up", to spoil or ruin a thing or process.

gum

— noun (= chewing gum) a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing — noun (= gingiva) the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth — noun any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying — verb exude or form gum these trees gum in the Spring — verb cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum if you gum the tape it is stronger — verb become sticky — verb (= mumble) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food — noun (= glue) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive — noun any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum — noun wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

Synonyms gum synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as gum?

gum English » English

glue resin chewing gum gingiva rubber paste mucilage sap gums pitch gum tree eraser bubble gum adhesive mumble gumwood chewing-gum cement ula stick India rubber wood tar wax valour valor tooth ridge tar syrup sticky stuff stamp splice size shellac rubber tree rosin pyorrhea oleoresin mastic lower jaw latex juice jaw intrude inflamation india-rubber honey hard palate gum-tree gum up gengiva

Topics gum topics

What do people use gum to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Tree
Person Body Head

Mouth
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Daily life Food

Stimulant

Conjugation gum conjugation

How do you conjugate gum?

gum · verb

Examples gum examples

How do I use gum in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The rooms in this hotel are really very bad at muffling sounds. I can hear my neighbor chewing his gum!
The gum adhered to the sole of the shoe.
You have a gum infection.
Then I sang a silly song about an ant who tried to wrestle a chewing gum.
Do you have any gum?
Tom had some gum stuck on the bottom of one of his shoes.
Tom is chewing bubble gum.
I chewed the gum.
If you have gum in your mouth, spit it out.
Mary offered Tom a chewing gum, which he accepted.
Tom put a stick of gum into his mouth.
Tom swallowed a chewing-gum.
Gum got stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
There's gum stuck to the back of my shoe.
What's your favorite kind of chewing gum?

Movie subtitles

Jastenity even offered me a half stick of gum.
I think I just stepped in gum.
Stick of spearmint gum with flies all over it.
You're just touching gum.
Cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum, candy, magazines.
Want a piece of gum?
What you wanna do, gum up the works?
Then why'd you promise not to fight the divorce and then gum up the works?
And will that gum up the house.
By gum, look yonder.
The only chance I've got of catching them and bringing them in is by staying far away from you because you'd only gum up the works.
Just standing here you can see rubber, palm oil, gum, copra.
Would you like a stick of gum?
The new Thurber book with comical jokes and pictures. a nice, quiet little double-murder by Agatha Christie. cigarettes, gum.
Mr. Pedro will need more opium gum.
I put some chewing gum in there and it don't buzz any more.
If gum is chewed, the chewer's pursued and in the hoosegow hidden.
Say, I do hope Mrs. Topper doesn't gum up our good deed.
Mr. Mazeau, got any chewing gum?
I don't like him around, but I don't see how he can gum our game.
The only chance I have of catching them and bringing them in is by staying away from you because you'd only gum up the works.
Well, strike me up a gum tree.
By gum, I'm still scared.
By gum.
Yes, you're chewing gum again.
This is merely a friendly warning that any usher caught chewing gum during the performance of duty will be dismissed.
I want a stick of gum.
What I like is chewing gum.
Then why did you promise not to fight the divorce and do everything you possibly could to gum up the whole works?
Got more gum? -No.
Who chews gum?
And must you chew gum?
I'm their man because I give them American bubble gum.
Jerry, do you have any bubble gum?

News and current affairs

Our new defense strategy and budget makes clear that it will not. The US military is a global force that can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Aristotle was preoccupied with dental issues, writing about treatments of decayed teeth and gum disease, extractions conducted with forceps, and the use of wire to stabilize fractured jaws.
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