Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong liquid adhesive obtained by boiling collagenous animal parts such as bones, hides, and hooves into hard gelatin and then adding water.
- noun Any of various similar adhesives, such as paste, mucilage, or epoxy.
- noun An adhesive force or factor.
- transitive verb To stick, fasten, or cause to adhere.
- transitive verb To cause to be focused on or directed at something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To join with glue or other viscous substance; stick or hold fast.
- To unite or hold together as if by glue; fix or fasten firmly.
- To stick fast; adhere; unite; cling.
- noun A very low grade of hide, practically worthless for tanning, but used in the manufacture of glue: commonly called
glue-stock . - noun A viscous adhesive substance used as a cement for uniting pieces of wood or other material, or in combination with other substances to give body or to make rollers, molds, packing, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
- noun See under
Bee . - noun a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass.
- noun (Bot.) a fucoid seaweed (
Gloiopeltis tenax ). - noun a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid or alcohol.
- noun a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.
- transitive verb To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an
adhesive ; or any sticky adhesive substance. - noun obsolete
Birdlime . - verb transitive To
join orattach something using glue. - verb transitive To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb join or attach with or as if with glue
- verb be fixed as if by glue
- noun cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Spreading the glue love.getglue. com @glue_genie #glue At Adaptive Blue offices.
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I have some apps in mind, but as usual, this glue is there to make it possible for others to build on the connection, much as we connect with Google, Amazon, WordPress and other Internet-based services.
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The word glue is just "en" so you stick the words together by sticking "en" between them: der Assenholengrabbenmeinenparkenspot
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"You need to have a core ideology of some kind which means it is not only a shared vision but also a value system, values that are clear to the firm, because thats what I call the glue which holds them together."
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"You need to have a core ideology of some kind which means it is not only a shared vision but also a value system, values that are clear to the firm, because thats what I call the glue which holds them together."
WN.com - Articles related to Bombay High Court dismisses Lalit Modi's Petition 2010
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"You need to have a core ideology of some kind which means it is not only a shared vision but also a value system, values that are clear to the firm, because thats what I call the glue which holds them together."
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Pakistan, with its “Islamic” nuclear bomb, Taliban - and al-Qaeda-infested northwestern borderlands, dysfunctional cities, and territorially based ethnic groups for whom Islam could never provide adequate glue, is commonly referred to as the most dangerous country in the world, a nuclear Yugoslavia-in-the-making.
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Buy a jump suit then smoother your self in glue then fo roll in a bunch of brush.
Where can I get a cheap Ghille suit. or are there easy ways to make one? Bugproof too. 2009
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Buy a jump suit then smoother your self in glue then fo roll in a bunch of brush.
Where can I get a cheap Ghille suit. or are there easy ways to make one? Bugproof too. 2009
gangerh commented on the word glue
I'm reading a book about the history of glue. I can't put it down.
May 1, 2009
yarb commented on the word glue
Ho ho. Sounds like a Tommy Cooper.
May 1, 2009