Glued vs Adhered - What's the difference?
glued | adhered |
(glue)
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
(adhere)
To stick fast or , as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
As verbs the difference between glued and adhered
is that glued is (glue) while adhered is (adhere).glued
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Verb
(head)glue
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(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.