Dictionary Definition
gum
Noun
1 a preparation (usually made of sweetened
chicle) for chewing [syn: chewing
gum]
2 the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the
jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth [syn: gingiva]
3 any of various substances (soluble in water)
that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but
harden on drying
5 wood or lumber from any of various gum trees
especially the sweet gum [syn: gumwood]
6 any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus
or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum [syn: gum tree]
Verb
1 grind with the gums; chew without teeth and
with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled
his food" [syn: mumble]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , gʌm, gVm
- Rhymes with: -ʌm
Synonyms
- gingiva (medical term)
Derived terms
- gumboil
- gum-didder
- gum-digger
- gum-digging
- gum disease
- gumless
- gummed
- gummy
- gum ridge
- gum-ring
- gum-rubber
- gum shield
- gum-stake
- gum-tickler
- gum-tooth
- gumwork
Translations
flesh around teeth
- Arabic: (líθθa)
- trreq Armenian
- trreq Basque
- Catalan: gengiva
- Chinese: 齒齦, 齿龈 (chǐyīn)
- Czech: dáseň
- Dutch: tandvlees
- trreq Esperanto
- trreq Estonian
- Finnish: ikenet p
- French: gencive
- Georgian: სასა (sasa)
- German: Zahnfleisch
- trreq Hebrew
- trreq Hindi
- Hungarian: íny, fogíny
- Icelandic: gómur
- Ido: jenjivo
- Italian: gengiva
- Japanese: 歯茎 (はぐき, haguki)
- Korean: 잇몸 (itmom)
- trreq Latvian
- trreq Lithuanian
- trreq Mongolian
- trreq Persian
- Polish: dziąsło , dziąsła p
- Portuguese: gengiva
- trreq Romanian
- Russian: десна (desná)
- Spanish: encía
- Swedish: tandkött
- Thai: (ngèuak)
- Turkish: dişeti (lit., tooth-flesh)
Verb
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal
Etymology 2
gomme, from gome, from Late Latin gumma, from gummi, from Greek κόμμι, of Egyptian originNoun
Derived terms
- acacia gum
- accaroid gum, accroides gum
- apple-gum
- bee gum
- begum
- black gum
- blue gum
- box-gum
- British gum
- bubble gum, bubble-gum, bubblegum
- carob gum
- chagual gum
- chewing gum
- chicle gum
- dammar gum
- degum
- doctor-gum
- doctor's gum
- elastic gum
- free gum
- gellan gum
- ghatti gum
- grilled gum
- guar gum
- gum acacia
- gum acaroidea, gum accroides
- gum albanum
- gum ammoniac
- gum anima, gum animé, gum animi
- gum animal
- gum arabic
- gumball
- gum band
- gum benjamin
- gum benzoin
- gum bichromate
- gum-boiler
- gum boot, gumboot
- gum-bucket
- gum butea
- gum camphor
- gum-chewer
- gum-chewing
- gum cistus
- gum dammar
- gum-digger
- gum-digging
- gum dragon
- gum-drop, gumdrop
- gum elastic
- gum elemi
- gum eraser
- gum eurphorbium
- gum-field
- gum-flowers
- gum-game
- gum guaiac
- gum-hole
- gum ivy
- gum juniper
- gum karaya
- gum kino
- gum labdanum
- gum lac
- gum-land
- gumlands
- gum-line, gumline
- gummage
- gummy
- gum myrrh
- gum myrtle
- gum nut
- gum of ivy
- gum olibanum
- gum over platinum
- gum-paper
- gum passage
- gum plant
- gum-platinum
- gum pot
- gum print
- gum printing
- gum-rash
- gum resin
- gum rockrose
- gum sandarac
- gum sangapenum
- gum-seal
- gum-senegal
- gumshoe
- gum silk
- gum stick
- gum-succory
- gum-sucker
- gum-taffeta
- gum-thistle
- gum thus
- gum tragacanth
- gum tree
- gum turpentine
- gum water
- gum wood, gumwood
- gum-worker
- hog gum
- karaya gum
- Kordofan gum
- locust bean gum
- log gum
- manna gum
- mastic gum
- mountain gum
- natural gum
- red gum
- ribbon gum
- slum gum, slumgum
- snow gum
- sonora gum
- sour gum
- spotted gum
- spruce gum
- sterculia gum
- sugar gum, sugar-gum
- sweet gum, sweet gum-tree
- tara gum
- ungum
- white gum
- xanthan gum
- York gum
Related terms
Translations
sticky substance exuded by certain plants
sticky substance resembling that exuded by
certain plants
chewing gum See chewing
gum
single piece of chewing gum
- French: chewing-gum
- German: Kaugummi
- Spanish: chicle
- Swedish: tuggummi
Translations to be checked
Verb
- To apply an adhesive or gum to
- With up, to impair the functioning of a thing or process.
Scots
Etymology 1
English gumNoun
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.Alternative spellings
Extensive Definition
Gum or GUM may refer to:
A sticky or chewy substance (gum)
In confectionary:- Chewing gum
- Functional chewing gum or "Functional gum"
- Bubble gum
- Wine gum
- Gumdrop
- Gum base
- Gum industry
In natural gums:
In names for species of tree or shrub (note than
several of these names can each refer to several species):
- Gum tree or Eucalyptus
- Black tupelo or Black gum
- Blue gum
- Ghost gum
- Gum Cistus
- Log gum
- Red Gum
- Spotted gum
- Sweet-gum or Liquidambar
Also referred to as "skeet"
As an adhesive:
Other uses as a common noun
- Gums, or gingiva, the soft tissue partly covering teeth
Other uses in proper names
In astronomy:- Gum (crater), on the Moon
- Gum Nebula, an emission nebula
In geography:
- Gum-Gum, a township of Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
- Gum Springs, Arkansas, a town
- White Gum Valley, Western Australia
- The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia
In fiction:
- Mr. Gum refers to the central character in a series of novels for children written by Andy Stanton.
As an abbreviation (GUM)
As an acronym (common noun phrase, notably in
science and technology):
- Genitourinary medicine
- Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO)
- Grammar Usage Mechanics — a trio of headings in linguistics and document editing
- Grand Unified Multicast
- Globalization Urbanization and Migration
- Gosudarstvennyj Universalnyj Magazin (State Universal Store), a large department store in Moscow, Russia
- Glowny Urzad Miar (Central Office of Measures, Warsaw, Poland)
- Glasgow University Magazine
- GIMP User Manual
- "Gum" short for Great Uncle Matthew,hello mate a character in Ballet Shoes, the children's novel by Noel Streatfeild
As a code:
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3-code for Guam
- IATA code for Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
- Zack rocks
See also
- Gummy (disambiguation)
- Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum
References
gum in French: Gomme
gum in Dutch: Gum
gum in Simple English: Gum
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lastex,
acaroid resins, agglutinate, alveolar ridge,
amber, baleen, battledore, bind, bite, bollix, braze, bridgework, bubble gum,
cement, champ, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up,
chewing gum, chicle,
chicle gum, chomp,
colophony, coumarone
resins, crab, cramp, crimp, dental bridge, dentition, denture, elastic, elastomer, false teeth, fossil
resins, foul up, fuse,
glue, gnash, gnaw, grind, gum elastic, gum rosin, gum
up, gums, handball, ivories, jumping jack, lac
resins, louse up, masticate, mouth, mumble, munch, nibble, paste, periodontal tissue, pine
resins, plastic,
plate, queer, racket, resin, resina, resinate, resinoid, rosin, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band,
ruminate, set of teeth,
snafu, solder, spandex, spring, springboard, stick together,
stretch fabric, synthetic resin, teeth, trampoline, uppers and
lowers, vegetable resins, weld, whalebone