glue

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay. Partially displaced native Old English līm (“glue”) and ġelīman (“to glue”) (whence modern lime). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡluː/ (obsolete) IPA(key): /ɡljuː/ Rhymes: -uː === Noun === glue (countable and uncountable, plural glues) A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. Hyponyms: crazy glue, hot glue, marine glue, meat glue, paste, rice glue, school glue, Scotch glue, skin glue, superglue, wheat paste, wood glue Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement (figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together. (botany) A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Esperanto: gluo → Ido: gluo → Irish: gliú → Welsh: gliw ==== Translations ==== === Verb === glue (third-person singular simple present glues, present participle gluing or (uncommon) glueing, simple past and past participle glued) (transitive) To join or attach something using glue. (transitive, figuratively) To cause something to adhere closely to; to cause to follow attentively. Synonyms: adhere, cling, stick, Thesaurus:adhere (intransitive) To apply glue. ==== Usage notes ==== The spelling glueing is not universally recognized among dictionaries. According to the Google Ngram Viewer, gluing is about 15x as common as of 2019. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === === References === === Further reading === glue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Guel, UGLE, gule, luge == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== glue alternative form of glew (“glue”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== glue alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”)