glue

Meaning

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.

Concepts

glue

paste

stick

gum

adhesive

mucilage

cement

affix

attach

stick together

resin

starch

adhere

size

plaster

join

fix

stick on

sticky

bond

cleave

intrude

sap

pitch

rubber

paste up

placard

post

post up

add

append

apply

fasten

sew on

birdlime

gluten

adjoin

past

pin up

jelly

grass

binder

tame

pollen

cling

contract

gum up

goo

sizing

gelatin

shellac

bind

veneer

cemedin

glue-water

gum water

glue solution

liquid cement

shea

caulk

crush

pin

adhesive agent

adhesive material

splice

stamp

pasting

sticky stuff

clay

scotch tape

paste-like

pasty

hair spray

sticking

intersect

shinbone

scar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡluː/

Etymology

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”).