glue – English noun declension

English noun forms of glue

Noun: glue
Singularglue
Pluralglues

Sample 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. [1832 July 26, “Review: Habits of Insects”, in North American Review, volume 35, number 76, →JSTOR, page 217:]
  • 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. [1990, Jean Marie Auel, chapter 9, in The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children), New York: Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 145:]
  • What is a kiss ? Why this, as some approve, / The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. [1648, Robert Herrick, “A Kiss”, in Hesperides, London: H. G. Bohn, published 1852, page 159:]
  • 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. [2022 December 28, Christian Wolmar, “Annus horribilus must mark a turning point for our railway”, in RAIL, number 973, page 45:]
  • 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. [2026 June 2, Alex Skopic, Chris Smalls, “Chris Smalls Is Still Fighting the Bosses”, in Current Affairs:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
3. Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
4. Proto-Italic *gloiten
5. Latin glūten
6. Late Latin glūs
7. Old French glubor.
8. Middle English glew
9. English glue
10. From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay.
11. Partially displaced native Old English līm (“glue”) and ġelīman (“to glue”) (whence modern lime). See: Middle English Nouns 'glew', Latin Nouns 'glūten'.

Verbs referencing "glue"

English Nouns clay, Irish Nouns gliú, Russian Nouns глютен.