As nouns the difference between glue and adhesive
is that
glue is a hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance while
adhesive is a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion.
As a verb glue
is to join or attach something using glue.
As an adjective adhesive is
sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
glue Noun
( en noun)
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
(obsolete) Birdlime.
Derived terms
* bee glue
* fish glue
* glue code
* glue plant
* glue stick
* glueball
* gluey
* marine glue
Verb
To join or attach something using glue.
- I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
* '>citation
To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
- His eyes were glued to the screen.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
- So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.
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adhesive Alternative forms
* (obsolete)
Adjective
( en adjective)
Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
Related terms
* adhere
* adherence
* adherent
* coherent
* inherent
Noun
( en noun)
A substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion.
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