a substance that you use to make things stick together 黏合剂;黏着剂 Use a good waterproof adhesive in addition to the screws. 除了螺钉外, 还要用优质防水黏合剂。 The adhesive takes at least an hour to set. 粘合剂至少需要一个小时才能凝固。
Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘tending to adhere or cling to’): from French adhésif, -ive, from the verb adhérer, from Latin adhaerere ‘stick to’, from ad- ‘to’ + haerere ‘to stick’.