glue

1. 1.

   join or attach with or as if with glue

   “paste the sign on the wall”

   “cut and paste the sentence in the text”

   Synonymspaste

   Broaderattach

   Narrowerepoxy
2. 2.

   be fixed as if by glue

   “His eyes were glued on her”

   Broaderfasten

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.