SEALING MATERIAL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sealing material" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sealing material"):

sealant; sealer (a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface))

filler (used for filling cracks or holes in a surface)

lute; luting (a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid)

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