glue
English · Français · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
glue
- /ɡluː/ UK
- /ɡlʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ɡlu/ US
- /ɡlʉː/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ɡlʉ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /ɡlɪʊ/ Wales
Sounds like glew · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
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).
noun glues
- A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement
- Anything that binds two things or people together. What is a kiss ? Why this, as some approve, / The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
- A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.
verb glues · gluing · glueing · glued
- To join or attach something using glue. I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
-
To cause something to adhere closely to; to cause to follow attentively.
His eyes were glued to the screen.
Similar: adhere, cling, stick, attach, bond, cleave, cohere, conglutinate, glue, hug, stick together, stick with
- To apply glue. "This is how the whiskers went, I think. Cut long strips of paper—I'm just using a second paper bag here—and run the flat edge of the scissors down the strip to make it curl. Voilà. Then glue each whisker, like so, next to the nose, four on a side." She was watching. I glued quickly so I wouldn't lo
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: paste, mucilage, gum, pasting, cement, pin, sticky, adhesion, stickiness, attach, adherence, bonding, adhesive, flare, footing, stickum
Translations
Every language
noun sticky adhesive substance
| Español | cola, goma, pegamento, pegante, resistol |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 풀 pul, 접착제 jeopchakje |
| 日本語 | 膠 nikawa, 接着剤 setchakuzai |
| 中文 | 膠水 /胶水 jiāoshuǐ, 膠 /胶 jiāo, 黏合劑 /黏合剂 niánhéjì |
| हिन्दी | गोंद gond, सरेस sares, लेस les |
| Kiswahili | gundi, gluu |
| Português | cola, grude |
| Français | colle |
| Deutsch | Klebstoff, Leim, Kleber |
| Italiano | colla |
| Ελληνικά | κόλλα kólla |
| Română | clei, lipici |
| Русский | клей klej |
| Tiếng Việt | keo, hồ, cồn |
| العربية | غِرَاء ḡirāʔ, لِزَاق lizāq, لِصَاق liṣāq |
| עברית | דֶבֶק dévek |
Talk about this word "glue." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/glue. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. glue. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/glue "glue." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/glue.Cite this
@misc{glue_2026,
title = {glue},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glue},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
