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glues

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for glues.

Editorial note

It takes a lot of work and chemicals to clean inks and glues out of paper for recycling.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of glues gathered in one view.

noun

A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

noun

(figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.

noun

(botany) A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for glues.

noun

A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

noun

(figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.

noun

(botany) A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.

Example sentences

1

It takes a lot of work and chemicals to clean inks and glues out of paper for recycling.

2

They generally tried to not use formaldehyde glues and bonding agents but it's hard to to police it.

3

You can build so much functionality with not a lot of code and it actually glues together well.

4

We do learning during the day, but the model generation that glues it all together happens at night.

5

Atlas is an application that glues together four different projects by Hashicorp: Packer, Vagrant, Terraform and Consul.

6

An example boilerplate project that glues all (most?) of the libraries together is all that is needed.

7

Military is known for using aerospace-level glues such as Loctite to quickly close bleeding wounds of soldiers (~5 seconds).

8

From glues used for wood (floors) to fabric softening (carpets, baby clothes), inks, building materials.

9

In the case of western marriage, where love, commitment are the emotional glues and financials are not outspoken diamonds are well positioned.

10

Its the brain that filters and glues it all together into coherent picture.

11

I'm guessing the real innovation here is coming in the form of new conductive inks and glues.

12

I looked at the source code and it seems that it mostly glues socket.io with Redis/Memcached.

Quote examples

1

For example, anoxaemia, inhaling vapors of glues and varnishes, sensory and motor deprivation induce "special effects" on cognition and mind too.

2

JRuby lacks that: it only "glues" JARs together and it introduces a shockingly huge startup lag which makes your development feel like you're compiling C++ code between test runs.

3

If I have a library that "glues together" multiple 32 bit or 64 bit integers, great, but if what I get works with 4 bit chunks, oh well.

4

Similarly, when you write putStrln "Hello " >> putStrLn "world!", the "IO type" way of thinking says: (>>) is an operator that glues two IO actions together.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use glues in a sentence?

It takes a lot of work and chemicals to clean inks and glues out of paper for recycling.

What does glues mean?

A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

What part of speech is glues?

glues is commonly used as noun.