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gum
/ɡʊm/
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What does gum mean?
noun
- The flesh around the teeth.
verb
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
More meanings (16)
noun
- 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.
- Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- Chewing gum.
- A single piece of chewing gum.
- A gummi candy.
- A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A rubber overshoe.
- A gum tree.
- Initialism of genitourinary medicine.
- Initialism of GUM (department store).
verb
- To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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Avonlea scholars often spent noon hour picking gum in Mr. Bell’s spruce grove over the hill and across his big pasture field.
In that isle groweth mastick on small trees, and out of them cometh gum as it were of plum-trees or of cherry-trees.
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It visits the caju trees, and gathers with its hind legs a small quantity of the gum which exudes from their trunks.
Sledges of powellized spotted gum were very strong and stood plenty of rough usage, but were heavier than those procured in Norway.