Word Type

Verb

Noun

The word "glue" can be used as verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

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

Capable Of

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 Terms

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 glue gun glue plant glue record glue sniffer glue stick glue-on glue-pot glue-sniffing glueable glueball glueboard gluehead glueless gluelike gluelump gluemaker gluemaking glueman gluepot gluey gluino gluish glulam gluon hot glue hot glue gun hot melt glue marine glue meat glue misglue nonglue reglue rice glue school glue screwed, glued and tattooed send to the glue factory skin glue superglue unglue unglued wood glue

Etymologically Related To

clay

Has Property

sticky

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

attach cement fasten

Type Of (IsA)

adhesive artificial substance cement mixture sticky before dries sticky substance substance

Manner Of

attach fasten

Receives Action

made from hooves of horses

Related Terms

agglutinate conglutinate gum paste

Related Terms

adhere adhesive attach attentively bind birdlime closely follow join

Similar Terms

adhesive

Synonym Network

adhesive

Used For

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 holding two things together joining things to other things keeping fake hair piece on kill humans make objects stick together mend broken plate stick thing together stick things together sticking things together

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.