glue

Meanings

Noun

• A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
• Anything that binds two things or people together.
• Birdlime.

Verb

• To join or attach something using glue.
• To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

Related

Similar words

• agglutinate, conglutinate, gum, paste

Origin

• From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu, from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay.
• Displaced native and ġelīman.