From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wp]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en] (stem [la]), from [en]. Related to
[en].
Partially displaced native [ang] and [ang] (whence modern [en]).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive ; or any sticky adhesive substance.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] Anything that bind s two things or people together.
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. [en] A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plant s.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|bee glue |beglue |crazy glue |desert glue |englue |fish glue |flesh
glue |glueball |glueboard |glue boiler |glue cell |glue code |glue dot |glue
ear |glue gun |gluehead |glueless |gluelike |gluelump |gluemaker
|gluemaking|glue friend |glueman |glue-on |glue plant |glue-pot,gluepot |glue
record |glue sniffer |glue-sniffing |glue stick |gluey |gluino |gluish |gluon
|hot glue |hot glue gun |hot melt glue |I'm rubber, you're glue |marine glue
|meat glue |nonglue |rice glue |school glue |Scotch glue |send to the glue
factory |skin glue |superglue |unglue |wood glue }}
**** Descendants
- [eo]
- [io]
- [ga]
- [cy]
**** Translations
[sticky adhesive substance]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bavarian: [bar] , [bar] , [bar] , [bar] ,
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Central Dusun: [dtp]
- Chechen: [ce] , [ce] , [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lü: [khb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Mongolian:
- Nepali: [ne] , [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zhuang: [za] , [za]
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[birdlime]
*** Verb
[pres_ptc2=glueing]
1. [en] To join or attach something using glue .
2. * [en]
3. [en] To cause something to adhere closely to; to cause to follow attentively .
4. * [year=1934]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | date=May 9 1961 | author=w:Newton N. Minow | title=w:Television and the Public Interest
|passage=Keep your eyes GLUED to that set until the station signs off. I can
assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] To apply glue .
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
**** Usage notes
- The spelling [en] is not universally recognized among dictionaries. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] According to the _[Google Ngram Viewer]_ , [en] is about 15x as common as of 2019. [6]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|gluable,glueable |glulam |misglue |reglue |screwed, glued and
tattooed |unglued }}
**** Translations
[join with glue]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Latin: [la]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [El Salvador]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
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*** See also
[en]
*** References
[reflist]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm] [enm]
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm] [enm]