mastic
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- noun
- /ˈmæstɪk/
- Specialized
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mastique
- Check for "Chrysotile" on any contents lists when buying building materials, especially mastics and floor tiles.
- Apply mastic
- mastic over the joint
- Duct mastic
Examples
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To repair the damaged tiles, use mastic as a filler to provide a strong bond.
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After a few minutes, she takes it out and removes some of the old mastic with a stick.
Academic text (2002) -
But luckily, because I put mastic all around the edge after this horrible lino was put down.
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They had been hand-ripping mastic out of expansion joints for two weeks, using Stanley knives.
Fiction book (1999) -
When the mastic becomes pliable, Sokate pulls the old, used-up scraper out of the socket, then places the end of the handle back into the ashes.
Academic text (2002) -
These new systems include waterborne epoxies, acrylics, mastics, and high-solids epoxies and urethanes.
Academic text (1996) -
Epoxy mastics offer a high degree of resistance to acids, salts, chemicals, and moisture, making them a good barrier coating for tank exteriors.
Academic text (1996) -
After carefully chipping away at the rock to form tiny, sharp blades, they made mounts for the blades from wood or bone and joined the stone to the mounts with mastic to create composite tools in the form of arrows or darts.
Blog text (23) -
Before sealing the gaps in the roof, apply mastic to ensure a waterproof finish.
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He applied mastic around the bathtub to stop water from leaking onto the floor.
Synonyms
A waterproof material that sticks things together on boats or in water
A cement that hardens when it meets water, even underwater
Compounds
An evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean that makes a sticky scented sap used in food, medicine and industry
A small evergreen tree from Peru with a rounded top, hanging branches, greenish flowers, and pink fruit
How Sticky
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mastic comes from a Greek word for a sticky resin that people used like a natural chewing gum and is related to masticate 'to chew'. Because the resin is very sticky, mastic came to mean a soft, pasty cement used for sticking and filling in building work.