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Glue vs Badigeon - What's the difference?

glue | badigeon |

As nouns the difference between glue and badigeon

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 badigeon is a cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors and builders to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

As a verb glue

is to join or attach something using glue.

glue

English

(wikipedia 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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    badigeon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors and builders to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
  • (Webster 1913)