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Glue
An adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non metallic substance applied to one surface, or both surfaces, of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation. Adjectives may be used in conjunction with the word “adhesive” to describe properties based on the substance’s physical or chemical form, the type of materials joined, or conditions under which it is applied.The use of adhesives offers many advantages over binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastening, thermal bonding, etc. These include the ability to bind different materials together, to distribute stress more efficiently across the joint, the cost effectiveness of an easily mechanized process, an improvement in aesthetic design, and increased design flexibility. Disadvantages of adhesive use include decreased stability at high temperatures, relative weakness in bonding large objects with a small bonding surface area, and greater difficulty in separating objects during testing. Adhesives are typically organized by the method of adhesion. These are then organized into reactive and non-reactive adhesives, which refers to whether the adhesive chemically reacts in order to harden. Alternatively they can be organized by whether the raw stock is of natural or synthetic origin, or by their starting physical phase.
Adhesives may be found naturally or produced synthetically. The earliest human use of adhesive-like substances was approximately 200,000 years ago, when Neanderthals produced tar from the dry distillation of birch bark for use in binding stone tools to wooden handles. The first references to adhesives in literature first appeared in approximately 2000 BC. The Greeks and Romans made great contributions to the development of adhesives. In Europe, glue was not widely used until the period AD 1500–1700. From then until the 1900s increases in adhesive use and discovery were relatively gradual. Only since the last century has the development of synthetic adhesives accelerated rapidly, and innovation in the field continues to the present.
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Paste (noun)
A soft moist mixture, in particular:
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Paste (noun)
One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
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Paste (noun)
Pastry.
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Paste (noun)
One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
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Paste (noun)
A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
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Paste (noun)
A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
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Paste (noun)
Pasta.
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Paste (noun)
The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
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Paste (verb)
To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
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Paste (verb)
To insert a piece of id=plural of medium (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
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Paste (verb)
To strike or beat someone or something.
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Paste (verb)
To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
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Glue (noun)
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
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Glue (noun)
Anything that binds two things or people together.
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Glue (noun)
Birdlime.
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Glue (verb)
To join or attach something using glue.
“I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.”
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Glue (verb)
To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
“His eyes were glued to the screen.”
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Paste (noun)
a thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid
“blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste”
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Paste (noun)
a paste used as an adhesive, especially for sticking paper
“wallpaper paste”
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Paste (noun)
a savoury spread
“salmon paste”
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Paste (noun)
a mixture consisting mainly of clay and water that is used in making ceramic ware, especially a mixture of low plasticity based on kaolin for making porcelain.
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Paste (noun)
a hard vitreous composition used in making imitation gems
“paste brooches”
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Paste (verb)
coat with paste
“when coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric”
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Paste (verb)
fasten or stick (something) with paste
“the posters were pasted up on to street noticeboards”
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Paste (verb)
insert (a piece of text or other data copied from elsewhere).
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Paste (verb)
beat or defeat severely
“he pasted the guy and tied his ankles together”