adhesively
- adverb
- /ədˈhiːsɪvli/
- The label was adhesively stuck to the box to ensure it wouldn't come off during shipping.
- adhesively bonded
- adhesively bonded joints
Examples
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The custom postage will be in stamp-like form, adhesively backed, and will be provided on sheets with a predetermined number of pieces of custom postage per sheet.
Blog text (17) -
Some of these devices are surgically implantable (intranasally); others are adhesively mounted (externally).
Academic text (2004) -
Following the recommendation of the manufacturer, re-cementation was conducted adhesively.
Academic text (2016) -
Not that she was intrusive, or noisy, or adhesively solicitous, like the mothers of most of their friends.
Fiction book (1991) -
Four of those crowns had been luted adhesively, and two had been cemented conventionally with glass-ionomer cement.
Academic text (2016) -
He applied the wallpaper adhesively, making sure it adhered tightly to the wall.
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The poster was adhesively attached to the board, so it wouldn't sag or fall down.
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Etymology
Adhesively comes from Latin parts ad- ('to') and haerere ('to stick'), and you can see the same root in adhere and adhesive. So, adhesively means doing something 'in a way that sticks' or attaches to a surface.