glue
Plural: glues
Noun
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
- Anything that binds two things or people together.
- A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.
Verb
Verb Forms: glued, gluing, glues
- To fasten or join with an adhesive substance.
- join or attach with or as if with glue
- be fixed as if by glue
- "His eyes were glued on her"
- To join or attach something using glue.
- To cause something to adhere closely to; to cause to follow attentively.
- To apply glue.
Examples
- His eyes were glued to the screen.
- I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
- I needed to GLUE those letters together to form a coherent word on the board.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay.
Partially displaced native Old English līm (“glue”) and ġelīman (“to glue”) (whence modern lime).
Synonyms
gum, mucilage, paste, adhere, attach, bond, cleave, cling, cohere, conglutinate, glue, hug, stick, stick together, stick with
Scrabble Score: 5
glue: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglue: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glue: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary