English Explanatory Dictionary

glue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

To join or attach something using glue.
To cause something to adhere closely to; to cause to follow attentively.
To apply glue.

Pronunciation

/ɡluː/ /ɡljuː/ en-us-glue.ogg

Word forms

glue glues gluing glueing glued

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Late Latin glūs Old French glubor. Middle English glew English glue 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

adhesive cement adhere cling stick attach bond cleave cohere conglutinate glue hug stick together stick with

Related words

agglutinate conglutinate gum paste

Derived words

bee glue beglue crazy glue desert glue englue fish glue flesh glue glueball glue board glueboard glue boiler glue cell glue code glue dot glue ear glue factory glue friend glue gun gluehead glueless gluelike gluelump gluemaker gluemaking glueman glue-on glue plant gluepot glue-pot glue record glue sniffer glue-sniffing glue stick glue strip glue trap gluey gluino gluish gluon hot glue hot glue gun hot melt glue I'm rubber, you're glue marine glue meat glue nonglue rice glue school glue Scotch glue send to the glue factory skin glue superglue unglue wood glue gluable glueable glulam misglue reglue screwed, glued and tattooed

Translations

Albanian: ngjis Arabic: لَصَّقَ Arabic: لصق Aramaic: ܕܒܩ Armenian: սոսնձել Bashkir: йәбештереү Catalan: encolar Chinese Cantonese: 黐 Chinese Cantonese: 黏 Chinese Mandarin: 黏 Chinese Mandarin: 黏貼 /黏贴 Cornish: glusa Czech: přilepit Czech: lepit Czech: slepit Dutch: lijmen Esperanto: glui Esperanto: alglui Finnish: liimata French: coller Georgian: დაწებება Georgian: მიწებება Georgian: ჩაწებება German: leimen German: kleben Greek: κολλάω Ancient Greek: κολλάω Haitian Creole: kole Hebrew: הדביק Hungarian: ragaszt Icelandic: líma Ido: gluagar Ido: glutinar Ingrian: kleittää Ingrian: klejata Italian: incollare Kabuverdianu: kola Latin: glūtinō Occitan: pegar Old English: ġelīman Persian: چسباندن Polish: kleić Polish: skleić Polish: przykleić Polish: lepić Polish: przylepić Portuguese: colar Romanian: lipi Romanian: încleia Russian: кле́ить Russian: скле́ить Russian: прикле́ить Serbo-Croatian: lijépiti Slovak: prilepiť Slovak: lepiť Lower Sorbian: lipaś Spanish: encolar Spanish: pegar Spanish: retentar Swedish: klistra Swedish: limma Turkish: tutkallamak Turkish: yapıştırmak

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