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Glue vs Gluon - What's the difference?

glue | gluon |

As nouns the difference between glue and gluon

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 gluon is gluon.

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.

    Derived terms

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    Anagrams

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    gluon

    English

    (wikipedia gluon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (particle) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.
  • Derived terms

    * glueball * gluonic * gluino

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