Definition: 1. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing. 2. Either of the firm areas of flesh in the mouth to which the teeth are attached. 3. The tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth. 4. Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.
Use 'gum' in a sentence:
1. What I like is chewing-gum.
2. Sugarless yogurt could help beat bad breath, tooth decay and gum disease.
7. This paper researches the fermentation condition of gellan gum production utilizing Sphingomonas paucimobilis.
8. Receding gums can be the result of disease or simply incorrect brushing.
9. I spent hours sticking the photographs into the family book, and my fingers got all gummed up.
10. If untreated, the gums recede, become swollen and bleed.
11. The xanthan gum is important because it has higher temperature stability than guar gum.
12. Like when you speak to people after chewing this gum, people just don't want to talk to you.
13. Eucommia ulmoides gum is a crystalline particle existing in the bark and leaf of Duzhong tree.
14. All this dirt that has got into my watch has gummed up the watch.
15. They stopped up leaks with chewing gum.
16. Yes, I have chewed bubble gum.
17. This old stamp isn't sticky any more; I shall have to gum it down onto the envelope.
18. It mainly be suited for these industries:rolling shear, cut grain, package, gum elastic, heath, matter, food, timber, etc.
19. If you haven't got the special fasteners to fix your photographs into the book, you'll have to gum them on.
20. Chewing gum, once bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal.
21. The machine gummed the back of stamps.
22. If plaque is not removed, it builds up and gets under the gum line.
23. Americans like to chew gum.
24. Thoroughly brush teeth and gums twice daily.
25. We can stick these pictures into the book with gum.
26. He is always chewing gum.
27. Spit out that gum and pay attention.
28. Someone told me there's another hostel called Gum Tree something.
29. He was holding up a pound note that had been torn in half and stuck together with gum.
30. In addition to tooth decay, there are also gum diseases to watch out for.
31. I've tried everything from herbal cigarettes to chewing gum.
32. Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.
33. My fingers gummed together as the sticky candy melted in my hand.
34. Suppose you know that there is a type of chewing gum that will give you bad breath.
35. Plaque is always forming on the teeth, especially at the gum line.
36. I still remember my cousin once blew a big bubble and then it broke, covering her face with gum!
37. The compotiers can be filled with colorful candies or silver-foiled chocolates or gum drops.
38. Regulators may gum up an efficient system.
39. The toothbrush gently removes plaque without damaging the gums.
40. It is a mild infection in which a baby's eyelashes can become gummed together.
41. Water, acrylonitrile and the galactomannan gum are added to a reactor with an alkali metal hydroxide.
42. A new report suggests that chewing gum may be a health hazard.
43. She was admonished for chewing gum in class.
44. That schoolgirl was sitting with her feet stretched far out into the aisle, and was busily chewing gum, when the teacher espied her.
45. Pops a stick of nicotine gum.
46. The dog bared its gums at me.
47. Our holiday plans have been gummed up by bad weather.
48. Sugarless yoghurt could help beat bad breath, tooth decay and gum disease, say scientists.
49. They are late, chew gum, talk to deskmates and have to be reprimanded and sent to the headteacher who is also a senior pupil.
50. I do not chew gum in public.
51. A large address label was gummed to the package.
52. One girl was chewing gum.
53. The result is tooth decay and gum disease.
54. When not removed, plaque causes tooth decay and gum disease.
55. Deposits of plaque build up between the tooth and the gum.
