slovo | definícia |
gumming (encz) | gumming,nagumování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Gumming (gcide) | Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (g[u^]md); p. pr. & vb.
n. Gumming.]
1. To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen
by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a
gumlike substance.
[1913 Webster]
He frets like a gummed velvet. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.
[PJC]
gum up
(a) To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum;
as, to gum up the drainpipe.
(b) to interfere with; to spoil. [Slang]
[PJC] |
gumming (wn) | gumming
n 1: ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) [syn: mumbling,
gumming] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
Degumming (gcide) | Degum \De*gum"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Degummed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Degumming.]
To deprive of, or free from, gum; as, to degum ramie.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Gumming (gcide) | Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (g[u^]md); p. pr. & vb.
n. Gumming.]
1. To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen
by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a
gumlike substance.
[1913 Webster]
He frets like a gummed velvet. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.
[PJC]
gum up
(a) To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum;
as, to gum up the drainpipe.
(b) to interfere with; to spoil. [Slang]
[PJC] |
|