Definition of Glue

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Definition of Glue

Glue

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.

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

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Glue Quotations

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
Tim Vine

Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald R. Ford

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
Chris Farley

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley

They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.
Cesar Romero

Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.
Persis Khambatta

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick

Glue Translations

glue in Afrikaans is plak
glue in Dutch is lijm, kleefmiddel, kit, kleefstof
glue in Finnish is liima, liimata
glue in French is colle, collons, collez, collent
glue in German is Leim
glue in Latin is gluten
glue in Norwegian is lim
glue in Portuguese is colagem, solfar
glue in Spanish is pegar, aglutinante, cola
glue in Swedish is limma, klister, lim

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