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Princeton's WordNet

  1. glue, gum, mucilageverb

    cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

  2. glue, pasteverb

    join or attach with or as if with glue

    "paste the sign on the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text"

  3. glueverb

    be fixed as if by glue

    "His eyes were glued on her"

Wiktionary

  1. gluenoun

    A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

  2. gluenoun

    Birdlime.

  3. glueverb

    To join or attach something using glue.

    I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.

  4. glueverb

    To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

    His eyes were glued to the screen.

  5. Etymology: From glu (now ‘birdlime’), from glus, glut-, from gluten.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. GLUEnoun

    A viscous body commonly made by boiling the skins of animals to a gelly; any viscous or tenacious matter by which bodies are held one to another; a cement.

    Etymology: glu, Fr. gluten, Lat. glud, Welsh.

    Water, and all liquors, do hastily receive dry and more terrestrial bodies proportionable; and dry bodies, on the other side, drink in waters and liquors: so that, as it was well said by one of the ancients of earthly and watery substances, one is a glue to another. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    To build the earth did chance materials chuse,
    And through the parts cementing glue diffuse. Richard Blackmore.

    The clearest, driest, and most transparent glue is the best. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.

    The flowers of grains, mixed with water, will make a sort of glue. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

  2. To Glueverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    I fear thy overthrow
    More than my body’s parting with my soul:
    My love and fear glu’d many friends to thee. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

    Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd together. Ecclus. xxii. 7.

    The custom of crowning the Holy Virgin is so much in vogue among the Italians, that one often sees in their churches a little tinsel crown, or a circle of stars, glued to the canvas over the head of the figure. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

    Most wounds, if kept clean, and from the air, the flesh will glue together with its own native balm. William Derham.

    The parts of all homogeneal hard bodies, which fully touch one another, stick together very strongly; and for explaining how this may be, some have invented hooked atoms, which is begging the question; and others tell us their bodies are glued together by rest, that is, by an occult quality, or rather by nothing. Isaac Newton, Opt.

    Those wasps in a honeypot are so many sensual men, that are plunged in their lusts and pleasures; and when they are once glued to them, ’tis a very hard matter to work themselves out. Roger L'Estrange, Fable 126.

    Intemperance, sensuality, and fleshly lusts, do debase mens minds and clog their spirits; sink us down into sense, and glue us to those low and inferior things. John Tillotson, Sermons.

    She curb’d a groan, that else had come;
    And pausing, view’d the present in the tomb:
    Then to the heart ador’d devoutly glu’d
    Her lips, and, raising it, her speech renew’d. Dryden.

    I hear thee, view thee, gaze o’er all thy charms,
    And round thy phantom glue my clasping arms. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. glue

    Glue is a sticky substance used for adhering or bonding objects together. It is typically made from proteins or synthetic materials, designed to hold or bind two surfaces together by creating a strong adhesive connection. The substance may come in various forms such as liquid, paste or solid and may require different conditions to work effectively, such as pressure, heat, or time for setting.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gluenoun

    a hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances

  2. Gluenoun

    to join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten

  3. Etymology: [F. gluer. See Glue, n.]

Wikidata

  1. GLUE

    In hydrology, Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation is a statistical method for quantifying the uncertainty of model predictions. The method has been introduced by Beven and Binley. The basic idea of GLUE is that given our inability to represent exactly in a mathematical model how nature works, there will always be several different models that mimic equally well an observed natural process. Such equally acceptable or behavioral models are therefore called equifinal. The methodology deals with models whose results are expressed as probability distributions of possible outcomes, often in the form of Monte Carlo simulations, and the problem can be viewed as assessing, and comparing between models, how good these representations of uncertainty are. There is an implicit understanding that the models being used are approximations to what might be obtained from a thorough Bayesian analysis of the problem if a fully adequate model of real-world hydrological processes were available.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Glue

    glōō, n. an adhesive substance obtained by boiling the skins, hoofs, &c. of animals.—v.t. to join with glue:—pr.p. glu′ing; pa.p. glued.—ns. Glue′-pot, a vessel for melting glue; Glu′er, one who cements with glue.—adj. Glu′ey, containing glue: sticky: viscous.—n. Glu′eyness.—adj. Glu′ish, having the nature of glue.—n. Marine′-glue, not a glue, but a cementing composition, used in shipbuilding, for paying seams in ships' decks after being caulked. [Fr. glu—Low L. glus, glutisgluĕre, to draw together.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. glue

    Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks. For example, Blue Glue is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks glue logic.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. glue

    See MARINE GLUE.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of glue in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of glue in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of glue in a Sentence

  1. Tom Perez:

    Well the most important thing we're going to do is to build a fair, level playing field for everybody, i welcome the debate. I think there is going to be a bumper crop of candidates and that the American people are going to see a very robust Democratic Party. What will unite all of them is that they are all fighting for a better deal and a brighter future and better tomorrows for everyone, not just a few at the top. And what we're doing at the DNC is making sure we build the infrastructure, the organizing infrastructure, the technology infrastructure so that whoever ... becomes the nominee that they can walk into a DNC that enables them to sprint across the finish line.Listen hereWhile Perez said he hopes ideas and ideals are what helps to unite his party, it may just be mutual disgust for Trump that will act as the super glue for Democrats.Below are some of excerpts of my interview with DNC Chairman Tom Perez. This QA has been edited for brevity, clarity and flow.Mark Preston: As you look at the current state of play right now, what is the Democratic plan to address Donald Trump in this off year?Tom Perez: Step one is that we have to take on Donald Trump in all of these areas that he's trying to take America back, and make America weak, not make America great. Equally important though, we can't simply be against Donald Trump. We've got to articulate what we are for, and we have always been fighting for a fair shake for everyone. Listen hereFollow CNN OpinionJoin us on Twitter and FacebookPreston: (W)hen you were running for chairman, ... it was a bit of a contentious fight. There was a lot of criticism from the grassroots about the battle between establishment Democrats and grassroots Democrats. ... What is being done behind the scenes to try to bridge the divide between those two (factions)?Perez: Every single day we are leading with our values. ... If we want to address income inequality in this country, one of the most important things we can do is support efforts for people to unionize and form a union. When unions succeed, the middle class succeeds. When unions succeed, income inequality goes down, and what we have to do as a party is be out there on the issues that matter the most to people: health care, good jobs, the efforts to cut support for public education, we have to articulate what we stand for.

  2. Thomas Doherty:

    Yes, the Queen's coronation was the epochal moment that made the Brits realize that television was the essential furniture of modern life... and the glue for postwar British culture.

  3. Airplane:

    Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

  4. Ramona Azcona:

    The number one misconception is that they will ruin your own natural lash. This is false! It’s all about your lash stylist not adding lashes that are too heavy or too long for your natural lashes to handle, the correct amount of lash glue is also important, it should not be too much or clumpy.

  5. Dan Roth:

    It’s one thing to design a car, even build a few prototypes. It’s a completely different matter to bring it to market with mass manufacturing, you need to know how to take your flights of fancy and make them reproducible by body presses, then weld, glue, and bolt them together, paint them, and then fill those shells with electrical systems and HVAC.

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