Gemmed vs Gummed - What's the difference?
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(gem)
A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
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(figuratively) any precious or highly valued thing or person
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
(obsolete) a gemma or leaf-bud
* Denham
a type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata
(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
* {{quote-book, year=1827, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven
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, passage=Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity. }}
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, passage=The rain Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again As I brushed past, and gemmed the window pane. }}
(gum)
To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
(uncountable) Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.
(uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.
(uncountable) Chewing gum.
(countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
(US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
(US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
(US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
(sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
* 2012 , Julie Hedgepeth Williams, A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival (ISBN 1603061169), page 184:
To stiffen with glue or gum.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
As verbs the difference between gemmed and gummed
is that gemmed is (gem) while gummed is (gum).gemmed
English
Verb
(head)gem
English
(gemstone)Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
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- She's an absolute gem .
- a gem of wit
- From the joints of thy prolific stem / A swelling knot is raised called a gem .
Synonyms
* (precious stone) gemstone, jewel, precious stone; see alsoVerb
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See also
*Anagrams
* * ----gummed
English
Verb
(head)gum
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gome, from (etyl) . More at yawn.Synonyms
* gingiva (medical)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 * gumworkVerb
(gumm)Etymology 2
(etyl) gomme, gumme, from (etyl) gome, from (qem?t, qemài ) 'acanthus resin'.Noun
- Do you have a gum to spare?
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 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 (verb) * 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 gumVerb
(gumm)- However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint.
- He frets like a gummed velvet.
- That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.
- The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.
