Glue vs Agglutinate - What's the difference?
glue | agglutinate |
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
(obsolete) Birdlime.
To join or attach something using glue.
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To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
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United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
(linguistics) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc.
To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
(linguistics) To form through agglutination.
In transitive terms the difference between glue and agglutinate
is that glue is to cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively while agglutinate is to unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.As a noun glue
is a hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.As an adjective agglutinate is
united with glue or as with glue; cemented together.glue
English
(wikipedia glue)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bee glue * fish glue * glue code * glue plant * glue stick * glueball * gluey * marine glueVerb
- I need to glue the chair-leg back into place.
- His eyes were glued to the screen.
- 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.
