🇬🇧🇪🇸 adhesion - adhesión : English Lesson

Meaning of "adhesion" ("adhesión"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Adhesion is the ability of one thing to stick to a different thing and not fall off. When you put a sticker on your notebook and it stays there, that’s adhesion. When tape holds wrapping paper together, that’s adhesion too. It’s like an invisible sticky hug between two different surfaces, such as glue and paper, or mud and your shoes.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The superhero of our science class was tape, whose mighty adhesion held posters, cables, and my broken pride together.

The tape’s amazing adhesion held the wrapping paper together, the scissors hostage, and my fingers in a sticky prison.

The adhesion of the sticker was so strong it clung to my face like it had signed a lifetime contract.

Thanks to adhesion, the tape held my broken pencil together long enough for it to break again in a more dramatic way.

I tested the adhesion of my chewing gum by sticking it under the table; now it’s basically part of the furniture.

A child dropped a photograph onto wet glue on a park bench. Adhesion grabbed the paper; adhesion bound it to wood. She tugged, felt adhesion on her fingertips, laughed at the stubborn adhesion, then eased the corner until adhesion released. The photo came up, a smear of glue left behind, and she hugged it, relieved by the quiet victory.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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