Definitions for glue

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glue glue

Spelling: [gloo]

IPA: /glu/

Glue is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in glue (eglu).

Definitions for glue

noun

1. a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
2. any of various solutions or preparations of this substance, used as an adhesive.
3. any of various other solutions or preparations that can be used as adhesives.

verb (used with object)

1. to join or fasten with glue.
2. to cover or smear (something) with glue (sometimes followed by up).
3. to fix or attach firmly with or as if with glue; make adhere closely:

Origin of glue

1300-50; (noun) Middle English glu, gleu Old French glu Latin glūt- (stem of glūs); cognate with Greek gloiós gum, anything sticky; (v.) Middle English glywen, glewen, derivative of the noun

Examples for glue

It is the “glue that holds often flaky single malts together,” as Broom puts it.

I don't mind it much, because it keeps that glue smell off me, but it's fairly strong.

You can't build even a glue factory with just one little finger.

Maliki no longer wanted to pay for the glue that kept it there.

Don't you know how bad most glue is when you try to mend anything?

If you tear that bond the rip leaves open scars where the glue once was.

You see the handwork, the glue, how the people in the agency were working on it.

He would repaint their faces and glue human hair onto their heads.

Cover the tongue thoroughly with glue, and also put some on the inside of the groove.

Pay me what you expect to make out o' glue, you mean, Virgil?