Glue - English meaning

adjective

Able to stick fast to a surface or object; sticky.

Usage examples:

An adhesive label

noun

A substance used for sticking objects or materials together; glue.

Usage examples:

Tile adhesive

noun

Glue

Usage examples:

[ c ] use a water-resistant adhesive., the pages were held together with adhesive tape.

verb

Stick, attach, or fasten (something) to something else.

Usage examples:

Panels to which he affixes copies of fine old prints

noun

An addition to the base form or stem of a word in order to modify its meaning or create a new word.

Usage examples:

Languages that work like this, where whole phrases or clauses can be formed in one word by attachin…

verb

To fasten or stick one thing to another

Usage examples:

Manufacturers were required to affix prominent warning labels on the product itself., affix somethi…

verb

Firmly stick or be stuck together to form a mass.

Usage examples:

This secretion may form crusts agglutinating the eyelids

verb

To stick together or cause things to stick together

Usage examples:

In healthy people, the blood platelets will agglutinate rapidly., barley meal agglutinated in the …

verb

(of words or parts of words) to combine or be combined to form new words

Usage examples:

These languages have a tendency to agglutinate words together., turkish is a language with an agglu…

noun

A powdery substance made by calcining lime and clay, mixed with water to form mortar or mixed with sand, gravel, and water to make concrete.

Usage examples:

We were having some building work done and there was cement, sand and mortar lying around.

verb

Fix with cement.

Usage examples:

Wooden posts were cemented into the ground

noun

A gray powder that is mixed with water, sand, and other substances, becomes very hard when dry, and is used in making concrete

Usage examples:

There weren’t any chairs, so she sat on the cement., the dentist cemented the tooth back in place.,…

noun

Any of a class of adhesives, plastics, or other materials that are polymers of epoxides.

Usage examples:

They can be used on a variety of material including fiberglass, wood, plastic, epoxy, rubber, lamin…

adjective

Consisting of epoxy.

Usage examples:

Epoxy cement

verb

Glue (something) using epoxy resin.

Usage examples:

The wire is epoxied to the top of the nut

verb

Fasten (something) securely in a particular place or position.

Usage examples:

They had candles fixed to their helmets

noun

A difficult or awkward situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself; a predicament.

Usage examples:

How on earth did you get into such a fix?

verb

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

noun

A chemical substance used to preserve or stabilize biological material prior to microscopy or other examination.

Usage examples:

An alcoholic fixative

adjective

(of a substance) used to fix or stabilize something.

Usage examples:

They determined whether use of fixative fluid, organic solvent, or both might contribute to the low…

noun

A substance that holds something in position

Usage examples:

A fixative for dentures

noun

A viscous secretion of some trees and shrubs that hardens on drying but is soluble in water, and from which adhesives and other products are made.

Usage examples:

The raw silk fiber actually consists of two filaments called fibroin bound by a soluble silk gum ca…

verb

Short for chewing gum or bubblegum.

verb

Chew (something) with toothless gums.

Usage examples:

The two-year-old gummed his mother's plastic-coated ration card

noun

A viscous secretion or bodily fluid.

Usage examples:

It has also been suggested that it reduces soil mechanical impedance by means of its secretion of s…

noun

A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid.

Usage examples:

Blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste

verb

Coat with paste.

Usage examples:

When coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric

noun

A thick, wet substance used for sticking things together, or any soft, wet mixture of powder and liquid

Usage examples:

Use paste, glue, or tape to attach the pictures., tomato paste, she pasted a heart onto the valenti…

noun

Material used for sealing something so as to make it airtight or watertight.

Usage examples:

Blobs of silicone sealant

noun

A substance such as paint or polish that is painted onto a surface to protect it from other liquids going into it, or is put in the space between two materials for the same reason

noun

The relative extent of something; a thing's overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is.

Usage examples:

The schools varied in size

verb

Alter or sort in terms of size or according to size.

Usage examples:

Twist drills are sized in millimetres

adjective

Having a specified size; sized.

Usage examples:

Marble-size chunks of hail

noun

A thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.

Usage examples:

Hayes picked up a fallen stick and twirled it idly between his fingers.

verb

Push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something).

Usage examples:

He stuck his fork into the sausage

verb

A long thin implement resembling a length of wood

noun

A sticky or adhesive substance; gum or paste.

Usage examples:

Wash plate thoroughly to remove any stickum