glue

About 3.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
2. noun Anything that binds two things or people together.
3. noun A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.
4. verb To join or attach something using glue.

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

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

   His eyes were glued to the screen.

6. verb To apply glue.

Similar words

paste mucilage gum pasting cement pin sticky adhesion stickiness attach

Often followed by

and the to that is on or in them

Word family

glued glueing glues gluey gluier gluiest gluily gluing