Glue

Definition: Glue

Glue

Noun

1. Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.

Verb

1. Join or attach with glue.

2. Be fixed as if by glue; "His eyes were glued on her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "glue" was first used: 1225. (references)

Computing

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Glue

Coherence

Glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; (solidify); agglomerate. Adjective: cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering; Verb: tenacious, tough; sticky.

Connection

Cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum.

Semiliquidity

Jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity); wax, beeswax.

Tenacity

Noun: {ant. } tenacity, toughness, strength; (cohesion); grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion); sequacity; stubbornness. (obstinacy); glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity).

Crosswords: Glue

Your balls stick to your leg like crazy glue. (North; writing credit: Alan Zweibel)

Well, that glue is permanent (Gilligan's Island; writing credit: Ivani Ribeiro)

Some get high on airplane glue detergents fancy gimmicks (Diva; writing credit: Jean-Jacques Beineix; Daniel Odier)

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue! (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

We're out of glue. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)

BUT A MONKEY SUPPLIED THE GLUE (Jocko Homo; performing artist: Devo)

'Cause why the freaks are jockin' like Crazy Glue (Play that funky music; performing artist: Vanilla Ice)

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? (references; author: unknown)

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. (references; author: unknown)

The Glue Factory (1921)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Glue (reference)

• New Decoupage: Transforming Your Home With Paper, Glue, and Scissors (reference)

• Scissors, Glue, and Concepts, Too!: Interactive Activities for Practicing Basic Concepts (reference)

• The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (reference)

• The Glue Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hooked On Fly Tying, HDB1 Glue Gun Basics - Doug Brewer (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Paper Pencil & Glue (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Gorilla Glue 18GGK 18-Ounce Bottle with Free 2-ounce bottle & Cozy Cup $7.99 Value (reference)

• Lamello Minicol Glue Bottle (reference)

• Excel 11036250 Polyurethane Wood Glue (8.5 oz) (reference)

• Gorilla Glue 8GGXXX 8-Ounce Bottle (reference)

• Tols 300G GOO Extended Reach Glue & Caulking Gun (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fluorescent-labeled fibronectin is seen on the surface of a single cell. Fibronectin (a protein glue) often disappears when cells become cancerous. The fibronectins appears red. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

"The Russia Cement Company's Plant at Anacortes". This plant made glue and other products from fish processing waste, not cement. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 108. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Applying glue to heel before putting on another piece of leather. Bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Roughening leather of lower part of boot before attaching upper with glue. Bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Printing war ration book 2. Another view of the collator with Otto Krantz checking the operation of the collating machinery. Note the glue can at his feet. Credit: Library of Congress.

American Photoengravers Association convention. LePage's Glue exhibit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The researchers fixed the grafts in place with a glue based on a blood-clotting factor called fibrin. (references)

The glue also contained acidic fibroblastic growth factor, or aFGF, which enhances nerve fiber development. (references)

A recent study indicates that toluene, a solvent found in many commonly abused inhalants including airplane glue, paint sprays, and paint and nail polish removers, activates the brain's dopamine system. (references)

Business

Grinders, saws, routers, and glue guns all recorded notable increases, both in terms of value and volume over the same period. (references)

The groups are oil waste, solvent waste, paint and varnish waste, glue waste, acid and alkaline waste, waste containing cadmium, waste containing mercury, waste containing heavy metals, waste containing cyanide, waste containing PCBs, pesticide waste and laboratory waste. (references)

Children

Brazil

Drug use, particularly glue sniffing and crack, is increasingly prevalent among street children. (references)

Nicaragua

There have been cases of adults who exchange sexual favors with street children in return for glue. (references)

Nicaragua

A 1999 survey by the NGO Casa Alianza reported that of 520 children, 504 admitted to using drugs, usually glue. (references)

Civil Liberties

Saudi Arabia

Censors on occasion also remove or blacken offending articles imported into the country, glue pages together, or prevent certain issues of foreign publications from entering the market. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

Many of the youths were high on paint thinner and liquid glue and said that they were protesting poor living conditions that included bad food, dirty water, and a lack of medications. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "glue": albumin glue ♦ animal glue ♦ bee glue ♦ blood albumin glue ♦ blue Glue ♦ bone glue ♦ casein glue ♦ collagen glue ♦ crazy Glue ♦ epoxy glue ♦ fish glue ♦ glue brush ♦ glue color ♦ glue colour ♦ glue gun ♦ glue in ♦ glue language ♦ glue line ♦ glue on ♦ glue paint ♦ Glue plant ♦ glue smth. together ♦ glue up ♦ gum arabic glue ♦ Liquid glue ♦ marine glue ♦ rubber glue ♦ silk glue ♦ Sinclair glue ♦ stick to smb. like a glue. Additional references.

Beginning with "glue": glue-factory, glue-free, glue-like, glue-line, glue-lines, glue-pot, glue-sniffer, glue-sniffers, glue-sniffing, glue-solid, glue-sprayed, glue-to.

Ending with "glue": edge-glue, magi-glue, super-glue.

Afrikaans

plak (plate, sheet, slab, slice, stick). (various references)

Albanian

zam, ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), i zamit, bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مادة غروية, ‏لصق (affix, cement, fasten, fix, gum, paste, patch, post, splice, stick, stick down, unite), ‏غراء (gluten), ‏غرا (agglutinate). (various references)

Asturian

pegamín. (various references)

Bemba

kambatika. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слепвам (agglutinate, concrete, stick together), туткал, залепвам (agglutinate, glue on, glue up, lute, paste, piece together, put up, stick down, stick on, stick to, stick up), лепя (agglutinate, gum, hang, stick, stick in), лепило (adhesive, gum, mucilage, paste, size), подлепям (overlay, paste, tape). (various references)

Catalan

cua. (various references)

Cebuano

papilit. (various references)

Chamorro

dangse. (various references)

Chinese 

胶浆, 膠 (gum). (various references)

Cornish

glüs. (various references)

Czech

lepidlo (adhesive, gum, mucilage, paste). (various references)

Danish

limvand (size), limning (glueing, pasting, size, sizing), lim (asynchronous linear motor, glueing, International goods-train timetable, linear asynchronous motor, linear induction motor, size, sizing), bogbinderlim (size). (various references)

Dutch

lijm (glueing, size, sizing), kleefstof (adhesive, agglutinant, agglutinating substance, bonding material), kleefmiddel (adhesive), kit (coal-scuttle). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

llutana. (various references)

Esperanto

gluo, glui (stick), gluaĵo. (various references)

Faeroese

líma (stick), lím. (various references)

Farsi 

چسبیدن (Adhere, Cleave, Cling, Cohere, Hold), چسباندن (Agglutinate, Attach, Bind, Cement, Gum, Paste, Stick), چسب (Agglutinate, Gluten, Gum, Lime, Mucilage, Paste), سریش (Paste). (various references)

Finnish

liimata (stick), liima. (various references)

French

colle, coller (to glue). (various references)

Frisian

lymje (stick), lym, kleef. (various references)

German

leim (cement, lime, size), leimen (lime, patch up, stick, take for a ride, to glue), klebstoff (adhesive, cement, emplastic, gum, mucilage, paste), kleben (adhere, cleave, cleft, cling, cloven, gum, hang, hanging, paste, splice, stick, tape, to paste, to splice). (various references)

Greek 

κόλλα (adhesive, goo, mucilage, paste, sheet of paper, size, sizing, starch), κολλώ (adhere, cleave, cling, contract, gum, gum up, intrude, paste, size, solder, stick, stick stuck stuck). (various references)

Hebrew 

קומוס (gum), הדביק (infect), דבק (attached to, attachment, cement, cleaving, gum, partisan, paste, sticking to). (various references)

Hungarian

enyv (size), ragasztó (adhesive), ragasztószer (adhesive, cement, gum, lute, mucilage). (various references)

Indonesian

perekat (gluten, goo), merekat, menempelkan (stick something on), menempel (adhere, cling, patch, stick), lem (goo, paste). (various references)

Inuktitut

nippiut. (various references)

Italian

colla (gum, paste, size), appiccicare (be sticky, stick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膠 , 接着剤 (adhesive), グリニッジ標準時 (glimpse, green peas, Greenwich mean time, griffon, grill, groovy, group, group discussion, group dynamics, group interview, groupie, grouping, grouping-effect, rock band). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にかわ, せっちゃくざい (adhesive), グルー . (various references)

Korean 

아교풀. (various references)

Macedonian

lepak. (various references)

Manx

glooie (adhesive, slime), glooaghey (contract), gleiyghey (cement), gleiyaghey (cement), gleiy (adhesive, gum, mucilage). (various references)

Mohawk

teyekhahstha. (various references)

Norwegian

lim. (various references)

Papago

hadshp (to glue). (various references)

Papiamen

leim (stick). (various references)

Pig Latin

ueglay.(various references)

Portuguese

cola (cola, crib, gum, kola), grudar (bind, stick), colar (affix, attach, beads, bind, bung, chain, collar, collate, crib, gum, necklace, paste, stick). (various references)

Provencal

pega. (various references)

Romanian

gumã arabicã, lipici (glair, pasting), lipi (affix, agglutinate, apply, close, gum, imprint, paste, paste up, patch a tyre, post, seal, solder, splice, stick), clei (cerumen, fish glue, gum, paste, pasting, thick), încleia (lime, paste, paste up). (various references)

Russian 

клейкий (adherent, clammy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, lentous, limy, ropy, sticky, tacky, viscous), клей (adhesive, cement, gum, paste, size, sticker), клеить клей, клеить, приклеивать (gum up, taping), подклеивать (paste). (various references)

Samoan

kelu. (various references)

Scottish

glaodh (a cry, bird-lime, cry, proclaim, shout), tàth (cement, join together, solder). (various references)

Sepedi

segomareta
i. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zalepiti (affix, glue up, paste, paste together, seal up), tutkalo (size), tutkalni, lepak (paste). (various references)

Spanish

cola (bottom, cement, gum, line, queue, rear, size, tail, trail, train), pegar (affix, attach, beat, beat up on, belt, catch, cement, fasten, give, hang, have, hit, knock about, Lam, live through, paste, paste up, plug, post, pump, put up, roam, sew, sew on, slap, slosh, slug, smack, sock, stick, stick down, stick on, stick together, strike, swipe, tag on, take, thrash, tie on, touch, trounce, welt). (various references)

Swedish

limma (size, stick), lim (adhesive), klister (adhesive, clyster, gum, paste). (various references)

Thai

กาว (gum), ติดด้วยกาว. (various references)

Turkish

zamk (adhesive, cement, gum, mucilage), yapıştırmak (affix, agglutinate, apply, bond, cement, conglutinate, fix, fixate, gum, gunk up, paste, plant, post, post up, stick, stick together), yapıştırıcı (adhesive, bond, gum), yapışmak (adhere, cleave, clench, clinch, cling, clutch, cohere, conglutinate, fasten on, seize, stick), tutkallamak (agglutinate, size), tutkal (adhesive, bond, cement, paste, seccotine, size), dikkatini vermek (attend, concentrate, engross, settle down to, zero in on). (various references)

Turkmen 

яelmemek (attach with glue, seal with glue), яelimlemek, яelim, elim. (various references)

Ukrainian

клеїти, клей (paste, size), глія, з'єднувати (adjoin, agglutinate, aggregate, amalgamate, articulate, associate, cement, commingle, compact, compound, concatenate, conflate, conjoin, connect, couple, cumulate, inosculate, interlock, joint, knit, leash, link, merge, piece together, tag, thwack, tie in, twin, unite), прилипати (adhere, barnacle, clam, cleave, cling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

keo hồ. (various references)

Welsh

gludio (cement), glud (bird-lime). (various references)

kolla. (various references)

adglutinabo, adglutinandum, adglutinata, gluten, glutino. (various references)

lim. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "glue": glued, glueing, gluelike, gluepot, gluepots, gluer, gluers, glues, gluey. (additional references)

Words ending with "glue": reglue, superglue, unglue. (additional references)

Words containing "glue": reglued, reglues, superglues, unglued, unglues. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Glue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glae, glau, glauben, glauce, glaue, gle, gleef, gleep, Glek, gleo, glie, glien, glio, glipe, glofe, glok, glote, glox, glu, glub, gluc, gluek, gluf, glug, gluie, gluk, glute, gluv, goue, grue, Gue, guef, guel, guew, gufe, guke, Gule, gulu, gvle, igluk, lue. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: luge.

-1 letter: gel, gul, leg, leu, lug.

-2 letters: el.

+1 letter: bugle, bulge, fugle, glued, gluer, glues, gluey, glume, gruel, guile, gules, kluge, kugel, luged, luger, luges, lunge.

+2 letters: begulf, beluga, blunge, bugled, bugler, bugles, bulged, bulger, bulges, bungle, burgle, cudgel, deluge, englut, engulf, eulogy, fugled, fugles, gluers, gluier, glumes, glutei, gluten, gruels, guggle, guglet, guiled, guiles, gulden, gulfed, gulled, gullet, gulley, gulped, gulper, gunnel, gunsel, gurgle, guttle, guzzle, hugely, juggle, jungle, kludge, kluges, kugels, lagune, langue, league, legume, ligule, ligure, lounge, lugers, lugged, lugger, luggie, lunged, lungee, lunger, lunges, plague, plunge, pungle, reglue, reguli, sludge, uglier, uglies, ullage, unglue.