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Gum
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 The flesh around the teeth. in-plural, often
- 2 A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate. uncountable
"gum arabic"
- 3 Initialism of genitourinary medicine. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 4 the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth wordnet
- 5 Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum. uncountable
"gum benzoin"
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- 6 Initialism of GUM (department store). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 7 a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing wordnet
- 8 Chewing gum. uncountable
- 9 any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum wordnet
- 10 A single piece of chewing gum. countable
"Do you have a gum to spare?"
- 11 wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum wordnet
- 12 A gummi candy. South-Africa, countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
- 13 cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive wordnet
- 14 A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive. Southern-US, US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 15 any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying wordnet
- 16 A vessel or bin made from a hollow log. Southern-US, US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 17 A rubber overshoe. US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 18 A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof. countable, uncountable
- 1 To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- 2 To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. sometimes, with-up
"However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint."
- 3 exude or form gum wordnet
- 4 To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. transitive
- 5 To stiffen with glue or gum.
"He frets like a gummed velvet."
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- 6 become sticky wordnet
- 7 To inelegantly attach into a sequence. sometimes
"It consists in gumming together long strips of words [that] have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug."
- 8 grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty wordnet
- 9 To impair the functioning of a thing or process. colloquial, with-up
"That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves."
- 10 cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English gome, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô, *gaumô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂u-mo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to gape, yawn”). See also German Gaumen, Old Norse gómr, Icelandic gómur; also Tocharian A ko, Tocharian B koyṃ (“mouth”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”). More at yawn.
From Middle English gome, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô, *gaumô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂u-mo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂w- (“to gape, yawn”). See also German Gaumen, Old Norse gómr, Icelandic gómur; also Tocharian A ko, Tocharian B koyṃ (“mouth”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”). More at yawn.
From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma.
From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma.
* As an English and German surname, variant of Gumm. * As a north/Low German surname, from Old Saxon gumo (“man”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 甘 (gān) (Gan).
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