glue
/ɡlu/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.80 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement"
- "The wasp has always made the paper from which it constructs its nest, by uniting vegetable fibres with glue, while man was vexing himself with attempts to write on the bark of trees or a waxen or metallic table."
- "During the next few days, while the meat dried, they were both busy. They finished the bowl boat and coated it with the glue Jondalar made by boiling down the hooves, bone, and hide scraps."
- "What is a kiss ? Why this, as some approve, / The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."
- "In other words, the railways are the glue which holds the country together for those without cars, and for those of us who want to get between major cities sustainably and rapidly. The railways are not a 'nice to have extra', but a key component of our infrastructure."
- "A lot of people who salted for us didn’t come from those same circumstances, so they don’t understand how Black and brown organizing is really going to intertwine with the type of ideology that they have. And I had to try to be the glue to figure all of it out."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Late Latin glūs Old French glubor. Middle English glew English glue From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay. Partially displaced native Old English līm (“glue”) and ġelīman (“to glue”) (whence modern lime).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡlu/
- British English: /ɡluː/