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Definition of glue in English: gluenounPlural glues ɡluːɡlu mass nounAn adhesive substance used for sticking objects or materials together. figurative what is the glue that holds companies together? Example sentencesExamples - Adhesives and glues are substances that are capable of bonding two solid materials together at their surfaces.
- Researchers plan to use the substance as a sort of glue for teeth-straightening braces.
- The glue supplied to stick nail on nail would do a sterling job of adhering the girders of the Forth Bridge together.
- So I decided to make it thicker by adding a rubber layer, again glued with neoprene glue.
- Every day she would proudly leave the Club with some brilliant construction in lolly sticks, paint and glue.
- The substance was finally identified as white PVA adhesive, a type of industrial glue.
- This kind of glue will stick to animal tissue as well as to metals and other materials.
- Squeeze a dot of glue in the middle of the stick and press the face bead in it until set.
- The lid was sealed down, and two heavy duty magnets were stuck to the lid, using glue to hold the box on the underside of the car.
- Then designate him as the control, and stick to him like glue for the rest of the night.
- The self-assembly chairs, tables and sofas fit together without screws or glue.
- Modern items use bought-in material like glues and plastic resins which are not produced locally.
- Hannah found some scissors, material and glue, while Ton found paints and paintbrushes.
- The glue used was an epoxy resin of which two types were employed for different reasons.
- Most shoemakers work in big factories where conditions are usually unhealthy because of the noise and working with chemical substances such as glues, solvents and dressings.
- I used a strong epoxy glue to secure both the swivel and the brass rod in position.
- The Chantelle Bleau Memorial Fund has spent the past six years campaigning to raise awareness of the dangers of volatile substances such as glues, gasses and aerosols by visiting schools.
- The next day I woke up and my eyes had swollen and were stuck together with what seemed like glue.
- The meat was being made to adhere together due, basically, to toxic glue.
- Madeleine brushed a streak of glue next to the Polaroid and stuck the green paper to the wall.
Synonyms adhesive, fixative, gum, paste, cement epoxy, epoxy resin, sealant, size, glair North American mucilage North American informal stickum
verbglues, glued, gluing, glueing ɡluːɡlu 1with object and adverbial Fasten or join with or as if with glue. the wood is cut into pieces which are then glued together Example sentencesExamples - I take it off my tongue where it seems to have glued itself, put it back in, take another drink of water.
- The application of sufficient pressure to unlock the locking chain from the other chains can be increased using other locking techniques such as melting or glueing the beads together.
- Because the bag part has to be glued into the frame it's a bit fiddly, I got a bit of glue on the outside of the purse.
- Tender keyboard melodies and skeletal guitar rhythms are glued together in darkness.
- It wasn't that gluing them together healed anything.
- This problem was solved when I glued a wooden tongue depressor to the pieces.
- With long sideburns of my own already in place, Jo has to cut the fake ones in half before glueing them on to my face.
- To further embellish the tag, embroider a motif on the second tag before gluing the two together.
- The first step is in assembling the figures which simply involves gluing the arms together.
- Seals are being pressed into service as mobile marine laboratories, with scientists gluing instruments to their backs in an attempt to find out more about global warming.
- Cluster three chestnuts side by side in a circle, gluing them together with your glue gun.
- Meticulously gluing them together piece by piece, Kaufman builds up feathered layers and leaflike clusters of paint.
- My eyelids are glued together, and I feel like I'm doing everything in slow motion.
- Make sure to use pipe cleaner before gluing your pipe fittings together.
- After building a wall of sandbags outside the shop, he glued the door shut, put silicone around it and settled in.
- Once all the pieces were made I glued it together and slid it onto the case fan.
- A cylinder was created from this rectangle, 12 inches tall, by gluing the ends together
- The most common criticism of British hardcovers is that they are glued rather than sewn.
- The curves were achieved by laminating thin boards, gluing them together and shaping them with a vise.
- While Amelia and Lisa work on their paint-by-numbers sets, Andrea sits on the floor, gluing hot-pink thread to a transparency.
Synonyms stick, gum, paste affix, fix, cement, epoxy rare agglutinate, conglutinate - 1.1be glued toinformal Be paying very close attention to (something, especially a television)
I was glued to the telly when the Olympics were on Example sentencesExamples - All across the continent today, football fans have been glued to their television sets to watch the Cup of Nations final.
- Like many people around the world this past weekend, I was glued to my television set following the latest updates on the tragedy which befell the Columbia Shuttle and its crew.
- In cities such as Prague, expatriates were glued to televisions in bars, bemused locals looking on.
- Sitting in the Baltusrol media centre, I was glued to the television.
- He, like many others of his ilk, was glued to television on Sunday morning watching the replays of truly one of the great moments of Indian cricket.
- For much of that time he was glued to the television following the progress of the British skiers at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but when it came to the men's downhill, his interest was replaced by bitter disappointment.
- Our interest was further piqued when Shanghaiist's Chinese literature professor remarked that he too was glued to the television every night.
- Just because I'm a woman does not mean I was glued to the television every Sunday night to watch other women talking about their sex lives.
- For the last 48 hours, Americans have been glued to their televisions watching both the storm and the recovery efforts live, as they happen.
- Everyone is glued to the television as horrifying news comes out of Kutch.
- I think everyone is glued to their television, nobody knows what's going on, everybody's scared.
- When I got home I put it straight on the television and was glued to the set until the end - I didn't even get up to make a cup of tea!
- In the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians were glued to radio and television broadcasts.
- The sun is beating down, but he will be glued to the television for the next couple of hours as Rangers and Celtic battle out their CIS Cup quarter-final at his old spiritual home in Glasgow.
- Unlike my mother, who has been glued to the television watching news updates, I refuse to sit and soak in all the killing and carnage going on in the world.
- Family and friends have been glued to the television to catch a glimpse of Joe - but Sharon realised this was impacting on her ten-year-old daughter, Shannon.
- Some 90 minutes earlier, downtown Port-of-Spain was like a ghost town, allowing traffic to flow smoothly, as everyone was glued to televisions and radios.
- In all parts of Canada, people were glued to their television sets, or listening to any radio available.
- I'm totally glued to my screen and I'm supposed to be all grown up and stuff.
- For what seemed like hours on the big day we were glued to our television sets, with only cubes of cheese and pickled onions skewered onto toothpicks to keep our strength up.
Synonyms be riveted to/by, be gripped by, be hypnotized by, be mesmerized by be fixed on, be fastened on, be pinned to, be locked on
Derivatives adjective Because the tongue of a young woodpecker has a smooth tip, the sticky, glue-like saliva is used to pull grubs out of their galleries. Example sentencesExamples - Obviously its sticky, glue-like qualities are what makes it so useful.
- He then proceeded to carefully dress each wound using cotton and a sticky glue-like substance.
- She will dip a brush in some volatile liquid, and when the liquid touches the powder, it will form a glue-like substance which will be applied over your original nails!
- This may be serous or, in chronic cases, thick, mucoid and glue-like.
adjective ˈɡluːiˈɡlui Having a sticky consistency. Example sentencesExamples - And these are enzymes that make up a gluey, sticky substance, known as glucan, and the bacteria make this from sugar.
- The smell of the lemon zest, the squishy feel of the batter when she made me stick my hands in the mix as she would pour in the beaten eggs, then the flour, then more lemon peel, and I would whine that dough, at first, was gluey and stuck to my hands.
- During the average 30-day life span of the louse, the female attaches 60 to 150 eggs, commonly called nits, to hair shafts near the scalp with a sticky, gluey substance.
noun It comes with a brown meaty reduction with an orange tang, which sits on that borderline between agreeable syrupyness and disagreeable glueyness, an addictive confit of softly sweated onions and pukka mash. Example sentencesExamples - The polenta was light, sweet, and studded with corn kernels, without any of the glueyness or heaviness associated with most other polentas.
- Or if you want that gumbo-like glueyness, just slice the okra and cook it along with tomatoes, onions and garlic, stirring often.
Origin Middle English: from Old French glu (noun), gluer (verb), from late Latin glus, glut-, from Latin gluten. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of glue in US English: gluenounɡlo͞oɡlu An adhesive substance used for sticking objects or materials together. Example sentencesExamples - Hannah found some scissors, material and glue, while Ton found paints and paintbrushes.
- The glue used was an epoxy resin of which two types were employed for different reasons.
- So I decided to make it thicker by adding a rubber layer, again glued with neoprene glue.
- Modern items use bought-in material like glues and plastic resins which are not produced locally.
- The Chantelle Bleau Memorial Fund has spent the past six years campaigning to raise awareness of the dangers of volatile substances such as glues, gasses and aerosols by visiting schools.
- The self-assembly chairs, tables and sofas fit together without screws or glue.
- I used a strong epoxy glue to secure both the swivel and the brass rod in position.
- Every day she would proudly leave the Club with some brilliant construction in lolly sticks, paint and glue.
- The lid was sealed down, and two heavy duty magnets were stuck to the lid, using glue to hold the box on the underside of the car.
- Most shoemakers work in big factories where conditions are usually unhealthy because of the noise and working with chemical substances such as glues, solvents and dressings.
- Adhesives and glues are substances that are capable of bonding two solid materials together at their surfaces.
- Then designate him as the control, and stick to him like glue for the rest of the night.
- Madeleine brushed a streak of glue next to the Polaroid and stuck the green paper to the wall.
- The next day I woke up and my eyes had swollen and were stuck together with what seemed like glue.
- The meat was being made to adhere together due, basically, to toxic glue.
- Squeeze a dot of glue in the middle of the stick and press the face bead in it until set.
- The glue supplied to stick nail on nail would do a sterling job of adhering the girders of the Forth Bridge together.
- This kind of glue will stick to animal tissue as well as to metals and other materials.
- Researchers plan to use the substance as a sort of glue for teeth-straightening braces.
- The substance was finally identified as white PVA adhesive, a type of industrial glue.
Synonyms adhesive, fixative, gum, paste, cement
verbɡlo͞oɡlu 1with object and adverbial Fasten or join with or as if with glue. the wood is cut up into small pieces which are then glued together Example sentencesExamples - Cluster three chestnuts side by side in a circle, gluing them together with your glue gun.
- My eyelids are glued together, and I feel like I'm doing everything in slow motion.
- The most common criticism of British hardcovers is that they are glued rather than sewn.
- Seals are being pressed into service as mobile marine laboratories, with scientists gluing instruments to their backs in an attempt to find out more about global warming.
- Once all the pieces were made I glued it together and slid it onto the case fan.
- While Amelia and Lisa work on their paint-by-numbers sets, Andrea sits on the floor, gluing hot-pink thread to a transparency.
- I take it off my tongue where it seems to have glued itself, put it back in, take another drink of water.
- It wasn't that gluing them together healed anything.
- Tender keyboard melodies and skeletal guitar rhythms are glued together in darkness.
- Because the bag part has to be glued into the frame it's a bit fiddly, I got a bit of glue on the outside of the purse.
- After building a wall of sandbags outside the shop, he glued the door shut, put silicone around it and settled in.
- This problem was solved when I glued a wooden tongue depressor to the pieces.
- To further embellish the tag, embroider a motif on the second tag before gluing the two together.
- A cylinder was created from this rectangle, 12 inches tall, by gluing the ends together
- With long sideburns of my own already in place, Jo has to cut the fake ones in half before glueing them on to my face.
- The curves were achieved by laminating thin boards, gluing them together and shaping them with a vise.
- The application of sufficient pressure to unlock the locking chain from the other chains can be increased using other locking techniques such as melting or glueing the beads together.
- Meticulously gluing them together piece by piece, Kaufman builds up feathered layers and leaflike clusters of paint.
- Make sure to use pipe cleaner before gluing your pipe fittings together.
- The first step is in assembling the figures which simply involves gluing the arms together.
- 1.1be glued toinformal Be paying very close attention to (something, especially a television or computer screen)
I was glued to the television when the Olympics were on Example sentencesExamples - He, like many others of his ilk, was glued to television on Sunday morning watching the replays of truly one of the great moments of Indian cricket.
- When I got home I put it straight on the television and was glued to the set until the end - I didn't even get up to make a cup of tea!
- All across the continent today, football fans have been glued to their television sets to watch the Cup of Nations final.
- In all parts of Canada, people were glued to their television sets, or listening to any radio available.
- In the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians were glued to radio and television broadcasts.
- Our interest was further piqued when Shanghaiist's Chinese literature professor remarked that he too was glued to the television every night.
- The sun is beating down, but he will be glued to the television for the next couple of hours as Rangers and Celtic battle out their CIS Cup quarter-final at his old spiritual home in Glasgow.
- Some 90 minutes earlier, downtown Port-of-Spain was like a ghost town, allowing traffic to flow smoothly, as everyone was glued to televisions and radios.
- Sitting in the Baltusrol media centre, I was glued to the television.
- For the last 48 hours, Americans have been glued to their televisions watching both the storm and the recovery efforts live, as they happen.
- Everyone is glued to the television as horrifying news comes out of Kutch.
- I'm totally glued to my screen and I'm supposed to be all grown up and stuff.
- In cities such as Prague, expatriates were glued to televisions in bars, bemused locals looking on.
- For what seemed like hours on the big day we were glued to our television sets, with only cubes of cheese and pickled onions skewered onto toothpicks to keep our strength up.
- For much of that time he was glued to the television following the progress of the British skiers at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but when it came to the men's downhill, his interest was replaced by bitter disappointment.
- Family and friends have been glued to the television to catch a glimpse of Joe - but Sharon realised this was impacting on her ten-year-old daughter, Shannon.
- Just because I'm a woman does not mean I was glued to the television every Sunday night to watch other women talking about their sex lives.
- Like many people around the world this past weekend, I was glued to my television set following the latest updates on the tragedy which befell the Columbia Shuttle and its crew.
- Unlike my mother, who has been glued to the television watching news updates, I refuse to sit and soak in all the killing and carnage going on in the world.
- I think everyone is glued to their television, nobody knows what's going on, everybody's scared.
Synonyms be riveted by, be riveted to, be gripped by, be hypnotized by, be mesmerized by
Origin Middle English: from Old French glu (noun), gluer (verb), from late Latin glus, glut-, from Latin gluten. |