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Glued vs Grued - What's the difference?

glued | grued |

As verbs the difference between glued and grued

is that glued is past tense of glue while grued is past tense of grue.

glued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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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    grued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (grue)

    • Anagrams

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    grue

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gruen. Probably from (etyl) gruwen or (etyl) gruwen (Dutch gruwen), both from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (gru)
  • (archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shiver, a shudder
  • * 1921 , , The Path of the King , chapter 9
    • There was a sharp grue of ice in the air.
  • * 1964', Geoffrey Jenkins, ''A '''Grue of Ice (title)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • Any byproduct of a gruesome event, i.e. gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.
    • The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
    There was grue everywhere after the accident
  • * 1958 , Samuel Youd, writing as John Christopher, The Caves of Night
    • 'I've told you - it wasn't much. He tried to kiss me.' She smiled slightly. 'Just after he had shown me the family skeletons.' / 'What a lovely bit of grue !'
  • * 1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=iaHQorgoqd4C&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&sig=0unz5oiZA5IURViNe75MsU7vHG4]
    • Carrie'' is Cinderella in the body language of menstrual blood and raging hormones. King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the ''Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue ” hardly need mentioning.
  • * 2002, Carole Nelson Douglas, Chapel Noir [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZZu4sl0P1EAC&pg=PA336&lpg=PA336&sig=dPR0ntE54xw-h3m6fByM0fgJiuc]
    • “[...] She is quite agreeable to gruesome ghost stories, but appalled by the lust for life.” / “I admit that I am surprised by how well she handles sheer grue , better than I.”
  • * 2004, Talbot Mundy, Guns of the Gods [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=PUCcyz2L1iwC&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&sig=REDDP_txW9FrUWEogxny6lZ4wUo]
    • “This is the grue ,” said Dick, holding his lantern high. / Its light fell on a circle of skeletons, all perfect, each with its head toward a brass bowl in the center.

    Etymology 3

    Probably from (gruesome); first used in Jack Vance's (1980).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fictional predator that dwells in the dark.
  • * 1981 , Byte magazine (volume 6)
    • I managed to get into the house through the front once, but I was plunged into darkness and eaten by a monster called a grue .
  • * 2009 , "Jas", Hazadous (SIC) Australian animals the GRUE.... your guide'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.travel.australia+nz )
    • To find a grue , turn off the light at night, or go for a walk in a dark place (but carry a flashlight with you).
  • * 2004 , "M.D. Dollahite", How would you imagine a grue?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.games.int-fiction )
    • Incidentally, the best official text description I know of is in Sorcerer, when you actually become a grue and visit a grue colony. IIRC, even that description is vague, but does cannonize(SIC) that they are large four-legged reptiles.

    Etymology 4

    . Coined by to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science.

    Adjective

    (Distinguishing blue from green in language) (-)
  • (philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.
  • * 1965 , , Fact, Fiction and Forecast ,
    • The grue property is defined as: x'' is grue if and only if ''x'' is green and is observed before the year 2000, or ''x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.
  • * 2007 , Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z?
    • The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue , since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.
  • (linguistics) Green or blue, as a translation from languages such as Welsh that do not distinguish between these hues.

    • See also

    * bleen *

    Anagrams

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