Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: adhesion
IPA transcription: [ædh'iʒən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: attachment, adherence, adhesion
    Meaning: faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive"
  • Synonyms: adhesiveness, adhesion, adherence, bond
    Meaning: the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition; "the mutual adhesiveness of cells"; "a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion"
  • Synonyms: adhesion
    Meaning: a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
  • Synonyms: adhesion
    Meaning: abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen
Usage examples
  • New York refused to send members to the Congress, and in many other provinces the adhesion given to the disaffected movement was but lukewarm.
  • When he had finished it he showed it to some of his colleagues for their adhesion; but one and all refused, except Dan Stone, who was not a candidate for reelection, having retired from politics to a seat on the bench.
  • On the other hand, the Piagnoni of the popular party, who had the directness that belongs to energetic conviction, were the more inclined to credit Tito with sincerity in his political adhesion to them, because he affected no religious sympathies.