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glue English

Meaning glue meaning

What does glue mean?
Definitions in simple English

glue Noun

— Glue is a liquid that pastes items together. Can I have some glue to stick my pictures to the paper?

glue Verb

— To glue means to paste something together. Your statue broke but I glued it back together.

glue

— verb (= paste) join or attach with or as if with glue paste the sign on the wall cut and paste the sentence in the text — verb be fixed as if by glue His eyes were glued on her — noun cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

Synonyms glue synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as glue?

glue English » English

paste stick gum adhesive mucilage cement stick together attach affix resin starch size plaster adhere sticky stick on join fix bond sap rubber pitch intrude cleave veneer tame sticky stuff sticking stamp splice sizing shinbone shellac shea sew on scotch tape scar post up post pollen placard pin up pin pasty pasting paste-like paste up past liquid cement jelly

Topics glue topics

What do people use glue to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Stick together

Conjugation glue conjugation

How do you conjugate glue?

glue · verb

Examples glue examples

How do I use glue in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Some furniture is put together with glue.
This glue does not adhere to plastic.
Don't touch my spaghetti bridge! The glue is still hardening.
I need a glue stick.
Hand me the glue and the scissors in that box, please.
Gluons glue quarks together to form particles such as protons.
It'll be difficult to glue the two pieces together.
Don't use too much glue.
This sticky liquid can be substituted for glue.
Glue the photograph to your application form.
Where did you glue them?
I need glue.

Movie subtitles

He's our glue.
Everybody is to glue rubber to soles of his shoes in order to silence them. I order all to hobnail your boots.
It's imitation leather, the glue's no good in two weeks it will fall apart, and all you'll have is Ochi Tchornya.
You don't understand psychology. If you wanted to pretend you were someone else, you'd glue a muff on your chin, and the dog wouldn't even bark at you.
I tried to row to him, but the lake was like glue.
You can still smell the glue where he joined it.
First, you give it a coat of glue. like this.
You better stay here and glue yourself back together.
Oh, she's a glue-foot.
The other animals finally recognised the death wagon from Mr. Whymper's glue factory.
And for the wicked rumour that Boxer was sold to a glue factory our belived leader would never do that.
I've spilt the glue!
Glue and wood - our boat can float! - Was it hard to get?
Did you boys find some glue?
I still have to glue two of them.
Testing a smashed-up plane Mike stuck together with a little glue.
It's closed in thick er than glue. All clear below.
All you need is a telegraph blank, some scissors and some glue.
If you wanted to pretend you were someone else, you'd glue a muff on your chin, and the dog wouldn't even bark at you.
I tried to row to him, but the lake was like glue. The boat wouldn't move.
Oh, forget her. Stick around, I'll open up a bottle of glue.
First, you give it a coat of glue.
Look at that shoe - glue all smeared and nails in crooked.
Please don't upset the glue pot.
Careful, the glue pot is bubbling over, Georg!
Razor blade, transfer paper, - white glue.
You know, I can't make up my mind whether this glue tastes like the chocolate or. the chocolate tastes like the glue.
That's the glue factory.
Yuck! What's this? Glue?
First you spread the glue like this.
Then you go over it lightly with the glue again,..
In case you're running out of glue.
Since my wound requires that I glue the bottom part of the wall, I suggest you take the upper part, officer. Which leaves the middle to Miss Hornung.
The meals taste like glue!
She sticks like glue.
Like glue!
True glue!

News and current affairs

The recent collective sense across Europe of the urgency of being able to speak with one voice in external affairs may provide the next breeze, and enough glue, to keep the enterprise afloat.
These shared values are the glue that binds governments together in the recognition that clinging to pure self-interest is no longer reasonable when common concerns call for a common strategy.
Opposition to Milosevic, however, appears to have been the sole glue holding them together.
Economic globalization risked provoking a backlash by provincial populists, while the external enemy - the glue that held the neo-conservative movement together - had disappeared.
In other words, weak networks are part of the glue that holds diverse societies together.
Poland has that leadership potential, even if Germany will remain the glue between East and West.
Are millions of workers headed for the glue factory?
The Cold War was the glue which held both shores of the Atlantic together.
That glue has dissolved.
Islam is its identifying glue - but how much else do Indonesia and Yemen, for example, have in common?
Both big parties will have to address these issues as we start on the long and difficult task of reforming a UK that has lost some of the glue of affinity and solidarity that has held it together for so long.
In other prosperous democracies, the middle class provides the glue that holds society together.
Both systems held relatively firmly together, though the glue that bound them was different, and both attempted to strengthen their positions throughout the world.

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