Glue

//ɡluː//

Synonyms for "glue" (147 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (30)

adhesive accouple accumulate adherent affix agglutinate albumen amass anchor apply articulate assemble associate band barnacle batter bind bond bonnyclabber bracket

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bramble braze briar bridge bridge over brier

Verb(3 words)

adhere attach bond

Noun(1 words)

adhesive

Strong matches (44)

bulldog burr butter cement chain clabber clap together collect combine comprise concatenate conglobulate conjoin conjugate connect copulate cornstarch couple cover cream

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curd decal decalcomania dough egg white embrace encompass fix fuse gather gaum gel gelatin glair glop gluten goo gook goop

Noun(1 words)

cement

Verb(4 words)

cleave cling cohere conglutinate

Related words (73)

gruel gum gumbo gunk include jam jell jelly join knot lay together league leech limpet link loblolly lump together marry marshal mass

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Noun(3 words)

gum mucilage vht

Verb(5 words)

hug paste stick stick together stick with

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

14 relation types

More general

3 entries

attach cement fasten

Synonyms

1 entries

adhesive

Related terms

4 entries

agglutinate conglutinate gum paste

at location

13 entries

art room book binding bottle bottle or tube cabinet classroom closed container desk desk drawer garage glue gun school tube

capable of

12 entries

dry fix broken things hold things together join wood together set stick paper stick to stick to paper stick two pieces of wood together stick two things together stick wood used to fasten things together

derived

57 entries

I'm rubber, you're glue Scotch glue bee glue beglue crazy glue desert glue englue fish glue flesh glue gluable glue boiler glue cell glue code glue dot glue ear glue friend

Showing 16 of 57 words.

etymologically related_to

1 entries

clay

has property

1 entries

sticky

is a

7 entries

adhesive artificial substance cement mixture sticky before dries sticky substance substance

manner of

2 entries

attach fasten

receives action

1 entries

made from hooves of horses

related to

9 entries

adhere adhesive attach attentively bind birdlime closely follow join

similar

1 entries

adhesive

used for

25 entries

attach papers attaching paper to paper attaching things together attaching two objects to one another bind like items together binding fake fingernails to real ones binding similar objects together binding things together binding unlike objects together bond items together build model airplane fastening two objects together fixing broken china fixing items hold things together hold two things together

Showing 16 of 25 words.

Translations

236 translations across 109 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

аҷаб noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Afrikaans

1 entries

gom noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Aklanon

1 entries

pilit noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Albanian

3 entries

ngjitje noun (sticky adhesive substance)
zamkë noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ngjis verb (join with glue)

Ancient Greek

3 entries

γλία noun (sticky adhesive substance)
κόλλα noun (sticky adhesive substance)
κολλάω verb (join with glue)

Arabic

4 entries

صمغ noun (sticky adhesive substance)
صَمْغ noun (sticky adhesive substance)
غِرَاء noun (sticky adhesive substance)
كوللة noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Aramaic

3 entries

ܕܒܩܐ noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ܬܬܐ noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ܕܒܩ verb (join with glue)

Armenian

2 entries

սոսինձ noun (sticky adhesive substance)
սոսնձել verb (join with glue)

Assamese

2 entries

আঠা noun (sticky adhesive substance)
এঠা noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Avar

1 entries

сину noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

yapışqan noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Bashkir

2 entries

елем noun (sticky adhesive substance)
йәбештереү verb (join with glue)

Basque

1 entries

itsasgarri noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Bavarian German

4 entries

Bapp noun (sticky adhesive substance)
Laam noun (sticky adhesive substance)
Loam noun (sticky adhesive substance)
Pick noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Belarusian

1 entries

клей noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Bengali

2 entries

আঠা noun (sticky adhesive substance)
শিরিশ noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Bulgarian

2 entries

лепи́ло noun (sticky adhesive substance)
тутка́л noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Burmese

1 entries

ကော် noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Catalan

1 entries

encolar verb (join with glue)

Central Dusun

1 entries

gaam noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

سْرێش noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Chechen

3 entries

бокх noun (sticky adhesive substance)
клей noun (sticky adhesive substance)
хьаьхьамч noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᏗᎧᏅᏬᏗ noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Chinese Cantonese

4 entries

膠水 /胶水 noun (sticky adhesive substance)
黏合劑 /黏合剂 noun (sticky adhesive substance)
黏 verb (join with glue)
黐 verb (join with glue)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

膠 /胶 noun (sticky adhesive substance)
膠水 /胶水 noun (sticky adhesive substance)
黏合劑 /黏合剂 noun (sticky adhesive substance)
黏 verb (join with glue)

Chuvash

1 entries

ҫилӗм noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Cornish

1 entries

glusa verb (join with glue)

Czech

4 entries

lepidlo noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lepit verb (join with glue)
přilepit verb (join with glue)
slepit verb (join with glue)

Danish

1 entries

lim noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Dutch

2 entries

lijm noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lijmen verb (join with glue)

Esperanto

3 entries

gluo noun (sticky adhesive substance)
alglui verb (join with glue)
glui verb (join with glue)

Estonian

1 entries

liim noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Faroese

1 entries

líma noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Finnish

3 entries

liima noun (sticky adhesive substance)
tymä noun (sticky adhesive substance)
liimata verb (join with glue)

French

2 entries

colle noun (sticky adhesive substance)
coller verb (join with glue)

Galician

1 entries

cola noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Georgian

4 entries

წებო noun (sticky adhesive substance)
დაწებება verb (join with glue)
მიწებება verb (join with glue)
ჩაწებება verb (join with glue)

German

4 entries

Kleber noun (sticky adhesive substance)
Klebstoff noun (sticky adhesive substance)
Leim noun (sticky adhesive substance)
kleben verb (join with glue)

Greek

2 entries

κόλλα noun (sticky adhesive substance)
κολλάω verb (join with glue)

Haitian Creole

2 entries

lakòl noun (sticky adhesive substance)
kole verb (join with glue)

Hebrew

2 entries

דֶבֶק noun (sticky adhesive substance)
הדביק verb (join with glue)

Hindi

3 entries

गोंद noun (sticky adhesive substance)
लेस noun (sticky adhesive substance)
सरेस noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Hungarian

2 entries

ragasztó noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ragaszt verb (join with glue)

Icelandic

2 entries

lím noun (sticky adhesive substance)
líma verb (join with glue)

Ido

3 entries

gluo noun (sticky adhesive substance)
gluagar verb (join with glue)
glutinar verb (join with glue)

Indonesian

1 entries

lem noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Ingrian

3 entries

kleja noun (sticky adhesive substance)
kleittää verb (join with glue)
klejata verb (join with glue)

Interlingua

1 entries

colla noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Iranian Persian

2 entries

سِریشُم noun (sticky adhesive substance)
چَسْب noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Irish

2 entries

glae noun (sticky adhesive substance)
gliú noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Italian

2 entries

colla noun (sticky adhesive substance)
incollare verb (join with glue)

Japanese

2 entries

接着剤 noun (sticky adhesive substance)
膠 noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries

kola verb (join with glue)

Kalmyk

1 entries

зусн noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Kazakh

1 entries

желім noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Khmer

1 entries

កាវ noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Kikuyu

1 entries

nguruu noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Korean

2 entries

접착제 noun (sticky adhesive substance)
풀 noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

желим noun (sticky adhesive substance)
клей noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Lao

1 entries

ກາວ noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Latin

2 entries

glūten noun (sticky adhesive substance)
glūtinō verb (join with glue)

Latvian

1 entries

līme noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Lithuanian

1 entries

klijai noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

lipaś verb (join with glue)

Macedonian

2 entries

лепак noun (sticky adhesive substance)
лепило noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Malay

1 entries

gam noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Maltese

1 entries

kolla noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Mongolian

2 entries

жяошүй noun (sticky adhesive substance)
цавуу noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Nepali

2 entries

गम noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ग्लू noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Norman

1 entries

cliute noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

lim noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Occitan

1 entries

pegar verb (join with glue)

Old English

2 entries

līm noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ġelīman verb (join with glue)

Oromo

1 entries

haphee noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

طوتقال noun (sticky adhesive substance)
طوتقاللامق verb (join with glue)

Papiamentu

1 entries

leim noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Pashto

2 entries

څلېښ noun (sticky adhesive substance)
څلېښت noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Persian

1 entries

چسباندن verb (join with glue)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Liem noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Polish

4 entries

klej noun (sticky adhesive substance)
kleić verb (join with glue)
lepić verb (join with glue)
przykleić verb (join with glue)

Portuguese

3 entries

cola noun (sticky adhesive substance)
grude noun (sticky adhesive substance)
colar verb (join with glue)

Quechua

1 entries

k'aschina noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Romanian

4 entries

clei noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lipici noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lipi verb (join with glue)
încleia verb (join with glue)

Russian

4 entries

клей noun (sticky adhesive substance)
кле́ить verb (join with glue)
прикле́ить verb (join with glue)
скле́ить verb (join with glue)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

ljèpilo noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ljȅpāk noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lèpilo noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lȅpāk noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Slovak

3 entries

lepidlo noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lepiť verb (join with glue)
prilepiť verb (join with glue)

Slovene

1 entries

lepilo noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Spanish

4 entries

cola noun (sticky adhesive substance)
goma noun (sticky adhesive substance)
pegamento noun (sticky adhesive substance)
encolar verb (join with glue)

Swahili

2 entries

gluu noun (sticky adhesive substance)
gundi noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Swedish

4 entries

klister noun (sticky adhesive substance)
lim noun (sticky adhesive substance)
klistra verb (join with glue)
limma verb (join with glue)

Tagalog

4 entries

kola noun (sticky adhesive substance)
pandikit noun (sticky adhesive substance)
pangkola noun (sticky adhesive substance)
pangola noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Tajik

2 entries

елим noun (sticky adhesive substance)
ширеш noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Tarifit

1 entries

aserɣaɣ noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Tatar

1 entries

җилем noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Thai

1 entries

กาว noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Tigrinya

1 entries

ኮላ noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Turkish

4 entries

tutkal noun (sticky adhesive substance)
yapıştırıcı noun (sticky adhesive substance)
tutkallamak verb (join with glue)
yapıştırmak verb (join with glue)

Turkmen

1 entries

ýelim noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Ukrainian

2 entries

клей noun (sticky adhesive substance)
кле́їти verb (join with glue)

Unami

3 entries

psàkwiokàn noun (sticky adhesive substance)
psàkwënikàn noun (sticky adhesive substance)
psàkwëni verb (join with glue)

Urdu

3 entries

سَریس noun (sticky adhesive substance)
لیس noun (sticky adhesive substance)
گونْد noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Uyghur

2 entries

سىراج noun (sticky adhesive substance)
يېلىم noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Uzbek

2 entries

sirach noun (sticky adhesive substance)
yelim noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Vietnamese

3 entries

cồn noun (sticky adhesive substance)
hồ noun (sticky adhesive substance)
keo noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Volapük

4 entries

glud noun (sticky adhesive substance)
kleibin noun (sticky adhesive substance)
gludön verb (join with glue)
kleibön me glud verb (join with glue)

West-Frisian

1 entries

lymje noun (sticky adhesive substance)

White Hmong

1 entries

kua nplaum noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Yiddish

2 entries

קליי noun (sticky adhesive substance)
צוקלעפּן verb (join with glue)

Zhuang

2 entries

gyauhsuij noun (sticky adhesive substance)
raemxgyauh noun (sticky adhesive substance)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Some furniture is put together with glue.

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This fluid can be substituted for glue.

Source: tatoeba (56519)

This glue does not adhere to plastic.

Source: tatoeba (60719)

This sticky liquid can be substituted for glue.

Source: tatoeba (60721)

Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.

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