Resin is a sticky substance that appears on the bark of trees, and also a synthetic material used to make plastics, varnishes and jewellery. It isn't the stretchy material used for gloves and tyres: that's rubber, and rubber boots are also called wellies.
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tree/pine + resin; epoxy resin; made of + resin; resin + jewellery/furniture; rubber (not resin) + gloves/boots
- My sister makes earrings from coloured resin and sells them at weekend markets.
- Our garden chairs are made of resin, so we can leave them outside all winter.
- In the chemistry lab, we watched epoxy resin set hard a few hours after mixing.
What changed
First versionI need to buy resin gloves for washing the dishes.
RevisionI need to buy rubber gloves for washing the dishes.
Resin is a sticky substance or a hard synthetic material, not the soft, stretchy material that gloves are made of. Nobody makes gloves out of resin for washing the dishes. The gloves you need are rubber gloves.
The liquid that flows inside a tree has a different name, sap: Maple syrup is made from the sap of maple trees. Resin is thick and sticky and comes out on the bark, especially on pine and spruce trees.
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After our walk in the pine forest, my hands were sticky with ___ from the trees.
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resin — Your hands got sticky from something on the pine trees, and that's resin. Rubber is a finished material for tyres and boots, and you won't find it on pine bark.
Describe something made of resin that you've seen or bought: jewellery, a keyring or garden furniture. Say what it is and where you saw or bought it.
I bought a resin keyring with a real dried flower inside at a craft fair in Kazan.
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