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Vocabulari catalą per a anglesoparlants

Catalan vocabulary for English speakers

 

Coles i Enganxar / Glues and Sticking

 

 

cola nf coles glue

cola de fuster nf joiner’s glue, wood glue

cola de contacte nf contact glue (applied to the two surfaces to be glued, which are then brought together a few minutes after the glue has been applied)

cola d’empaperar wallpaper paste

 

goma arąbiga nf gum arabic (= resin exuded by Acacia Senegal trees)

 

aigaucuit nm aigaucuits glue, gum

aquest aiguacuit no exganxa this glue’s not working, this glue doesn’t stick

 

enganxar v to stick

enganxar (alguna cosa) amb goma v to stick (something) with gum

paper d’enganxar mosques sticky fly paper; fly paper (= strip of paper covered with some sticky substance to catch flies)

enganxós adj sticky

una canēó enganxosa catchy tune

 

pega nf glue; pitch, tar

negra com la pega pitch black

pega de sabater resin used for waxing thread; sticky substance

apegar to stick

Also: in some districts pegar to stick (pegar generally is “to hit, to strike”)

 

adherir transitive verb to stick (something), to adhere (something)

adherir dues coses to stick two things together

adherir una cosa a una altra to stick two things together

 

adherir intransitive verb to stick (= to be stuck)

 

adherir-se to stick (= to be stuck)

el sutge s'ha adherit a les parets de la cuina the soot has stuck to the kitchen walls

 

adhesiu adj adhesive

cinta adhesiva nf  adhesive tape, sticky tape, *Sellotape

barra adhesiva nf  barres adhesives glue stick

 

desenganxar unstick

 

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Catalan Vocabulary for English-speakers.  

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