Glow vs Glue - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between glow and glue

is that glow is to feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc; to burn while glue is to cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

As verbs the difference between glow and glue

is that glow is to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated while glue is to join or attach something using glue.

As nouns the difference between glow and glue

is that glow is the state of a glowing object while glue is a hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

glow

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Verb

(en verb)

To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

To radiate some emotional quality like light.

* Dryden

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .

* Alexander Pope

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .

To gaze especially passionately at something.

To radiate thermal heat.

To shine brightly and steadily.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

To make hot; to flush.

* Shakespeare

Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

* Addison

Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

* John Gay

The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

Noun

(-)

The state of a glowing object.

* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2

The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.

The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.

The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

He had a bright red glow on his face.

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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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