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US
/ˈɡəm/
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[ UK /ɡˈʌm/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈʌm/ ]
VERB
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grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food -
exude or form gum
these trees gum in the Spring -
cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
if you gum the tape it is stronger - become sticky
NOUN
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
How To Use gum In A Sentence
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- A lot of younger people sat in the aisle amid the fag ends, gum and dust.
- There are a lot of counterarguments to using more labor in China.
- The argument behind x is not quantitative, and we do not have an expression for its expected value under a null isolation model.
- There were weighty arguments against this theory, in particular the fact that people with great muscular strength and a welldeveloped panniculus adiposus were often attacked by the disease; and also that European crews, on a diet containing sufficient protein and fat, were not immune, even when they were given virtually no rice at all. Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
- I'll just summarize the main points of the argument in a few words if I may.
- The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
- Most organic farmers try to supply their nitrogen needs with legumes in the crop rotation or with manures and composts.
- I think the argument of race as a cause of criminality like Walter brings up is somewhat off-point - The reason why those racial divides in criminality show up is mainly because those lines go together with education - or rather: the lack of good education. Can a Godless Society be a
- This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint.
