Glue vs Slue - What's the difference?
glue | slue |
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.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
To turn something sharply.
* Charles Dickens
To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
To slide off course; to skid.
The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
A slough; a run or wet place.
In lang=en terms the difference between glue and slue
is that glue is to cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively while slue is to slide off course; to skid.As nouns the difference between glue and slue
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 slue is the act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.As verbs the difference between glue and slue
is that glue is to join or attach something using glue while slue is (nautical) to rotate something on an axis.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.
Derived terms
*Anagrams
* *slue
English
Alternative forms
* (mostly British ) slewVerb
(slu)- They laughed, and slued themselves round.
