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glue

[gloo]

noun

  1. a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.

  2. any of various solutions or preparations of this substance, used as an adhesive.

  3. any of various other solutions or preparations that can be used as adhesives.



verb (used with object)

glued, gluing 
  1. to join or fasten with glue.

    Synonyms: , , , ,
  2. to cover or smear (something) with glue (sometimes followed byup ).

  3. to fix or attach firmly with or as if with glue; make adhere closely.

    to glue a model ship together.

glue

/ ɡː /

noun

  1. any natural or synthetic adhesive, esp a sticky gelatinous substance prepared by boiling animal products such as bones, skin, and horns

  2. any other sticky or adhesive substance

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to join or stick together with or as if with glue

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • gluelike adjective
  • gluer noun
  • reglue verb (used with object)
  • ˈܱ noun
  • ˈܱˌ adjective
  • ˈܱ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of glue1

1300–50; (noun) Middle English glu, gleu < Old French glu < Latin ū- (stem of ū ); cognate with Greek Ǿó gum, anything sticky; (v.) Middle English glywen, glewen, derivative of the noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of glue1

C14: from Old French glu, from Late Latin ū; compare Greek gloios
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And so, yes, also as actors, the team, we glue them together somehow.

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Climate change is causing the glaciers - frozen rivers of ice - to melt faster and faster, and the permafrost, often described as the glue that holds the high mountains together, is also thawing.

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“That is why you, the organism, are kind of glued to it, fully attached to it or identify with it.”

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Four Just Stop Oil protesters who were planning to glue themselves to the taxiway at Manchester Airport have been jailed.

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Only now, they’re private, on our own devices, stripped of the communal buzz that once made reruns feel like cultural glue.

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