glue

1. 1.

   cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

   Synonymsgummucilage

   Broadercement

   Narroweranimal gluecasein gluefish gluemarine glue

Other forms of glue

plural

glues·

past tense

glued·

present participle

gluing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glue

What does glue mean?

glue means "join or attach with or as if with glue". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glue?

glue has 1 syllable: glue. In IPA it is /ˈɡlu/.

What is another word for glue?

Close synonyms include paste, gum, mucilage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glue a common word?

glue is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.