glue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
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).
Inflected forms:
form: glues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gluing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
uncommon
form: glued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement
The wasp has always made the paper from which it constructs its nest, by uniting vegetable fibres with glue, while man was vexing himself with attempts to write on the bark of trees or a waxen or metallic table.
During the next few days, while the meat dried, they were both busy. They finished the bowl boat and coated it with the glue Jondalar made by boiling down the hooves, bone, and hide scraps.
gloss: Anything that binds two things or people together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: What is a kiss ? Why this, as some approve, / The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
In other words, the railways are the glue which holds the country together for those without cars, and for those of us who want to get between major cities sustainably and rapidly. The railways are not a 'nice to have extra', but a key component of our infrastructure.
gloss: A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To join or attach something using glue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
[…] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
gloss: To cause something to adhere closely to; to cause to follow attentively.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: His eyes were glued to the screen.
So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.
Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
If, like me, you have been confined to your home, glued to the news and nursing ever greater anxiety about the state of the world, you have probably become familiar with the sight of the World Health Organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and his daily press briefings.
gloss: To apply glue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "This is how the whiskers went, I think. Cut long strips of paper—I'm just using a second paper bag here—and run the flat edge of the scissors down the strip to make it curl. Voilà. Then glue each whisker, like so, next to the nose, four on a side." She was watching. I glued quickly so I wouldn't lose her.
Children need help in understanding such things as how to control a paintbrush, how to cut efficiently, how to glue with care and dexterity, and even how to manage a sponge during a cleanup task.
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
unglued
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ngjis
lang: Arabic
word: لَصَّقَ
roman: laṣṣaqa
lang: Arabic
word: لصق
roman: laṣṣaq
lang: Aramaic
word: ܕܒܩ
roman: dəḇaq
lang: Armenian
word: սոսնձել
roman: sosnjel
lang: Bashkir
word: йәбештереү
roman: yəbeşterew
lang: Catalan
word: encolar
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 黐
roman: ci¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 黏
roman: nim⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黏
roman: nián
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黏貼 /黏贴
roman: niántiē
lang: Cornish
word: glusa
lang: Czech
word: přilepit
lang: Czech
word: lepit
lang: Czech
word: slepit
lang: Dutch
word: lijmen
lang: Esperanto
word: glui
lang: Esperanto
word: alglui
lang: Finnish
word: liimata
lang: French
word: coller
lang: Georgian
word: დაწებება
roman: dac̣ebeba
lang: Georgian
word: მიწებება
roman: mic̣ebeba
lang: Georgian
word: ჩაწებება
roman: čac̣ebeba
lang: German
word: leimen
lang: German
word: kleben
lang: Greek
word: κολλάω
roman: kolláo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κολλάω
roman: kolláō
lang: Haitian Creole
word: kole
lang: Hebrew
word: הדביק
roman: hedbik
lang: Hungarian
word: ragaszt
lang: Icelandic
word: líma
lang: Ido
word: gluagar
lang: Ido
word: glutinar
lang: Ingrian
word: kleittää
lang: Ingrian
word: klejata
lang: Italian
word: incollare
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: kola
lang: Latin
word: glūtinō
lang: Occitan
word: pegar
lang: Old English
word: ġelīman
lang: Persian
word: چسباندن
roman: Chasbândan
lang: Polish
word: kleić
lang: Polish
word: skleić
lang: Polish
word: przykleić
lang: Polish
word: lepić
lang: Polish
word: przylepić
lang: Portuguese
word: colar
lang: Romanian
word: lipi
lang: Romanian
word: încleia
lang: Russian
word: кле́ить
roman: kléitʹ
lang: Russian
word: скле́ить
roman: skléitʹ
lang: Russian
word: прикле́ить
roman: prikléitʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lijépiti
lang: Slovak
word: prilepiť
lang: Slovak
word: lepiť
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: lipaś
lang: Spanish
word: encolar
lang: Spanish
word: pegar
lang: Spanish
word: retentar
lang: Swedish
word: klistra
lang: Swedish
word: limma
lang: Turkish
word: tutkallamak
lang: Turkish
word: yapıştırmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طوتقاللامق
roman: tutkallamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: кле́їти
roman: kléjity
lang: Unami
word: psàkwëni
lang: Volapük
word: gludön
lang: Volapük
word: kleibön me glud
lang: Yiddish
word: צוקלעפּן
roman: tsuklepn