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What is the difference between glue and epoxy?

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As nouns the difference between glue and epoxy

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 epoxy is a thermosetting polyepoxide resin used chiefly in strong adhesives, coatings and laminates; epoxy resin.

As verbs the difference between glue and epoxy

is that glue is to join or attach something using glue while epoxy is to glue with epoxy.

As a adjective epoxy is

(chemistry) derived from an epoxide.

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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    epoxy

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chemistry) Derived from an epoxide.
  • Noun

    (epoxies)
  • A thermosetting polyepoxide resin used chiefly in strong adhesives, coatings and laminates; epoxy resin.
  • Verb

  • To glue with epoxy.