glue

Signification

Noun

1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
2. Anything that binds two things or people together.

Verb

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡluː/

Étymologie

From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay.
Displaced native Old English līm (“glue”) and ġelīman (“to glue”).