glue
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
glue
- A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
- (figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.
- (obsolete) Birdlime.
- French: colle
- German: Klebstoff, Leim, Kleber
- Italian: colla
- Portuguese: cola
- Russian: клей
- Spanish: cola, goma, pegamento
glue (glues, present participle gluing; past and past participle glued)
- (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
- I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
- (transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
- His eyes were glued to the screen.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- 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.
- (join with glue) agglutinate, conglutinate, gum, paste
- (adhere closely) adhere, cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
- French: coller
- German: leimen, kleben
- Italian: incollare
- Portuguese: colar
- Russian: кле́ить
- Spanish: encolar, pegar
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