Used in a Sentence

gluing

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

Editorial note

The latter is a bit more difficult through python, but not as hard as trying to remember the syntax of and gluing together a two language workflow.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of attaching something with glue.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

The act of attaching something with glue.

noun

(topology) A connection between the edges of two planes, or between the points at the ends of two lines.

noun

(mathematics) Any of various processes for producing some structure (e.g. a sheaf or scheme) by combining smaller structures that are in some way compatible with each other.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gluing.

noun

The act of attaching something with glue.

noun

(topology) A connection between the edges of two planes, or between the points at the ends of two lines.

noun

(mathematics) Any of various processes for producing some structure (e.g. a sheaf or scheme) by combining smaller structures that are in some way compatible with each other.

Example sentences

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The latter is a bit more difficult through python, but not as hard as trying to remember the syntax of and gluing together a two language workflow.

2

The best approach to a whiteboard is buying a piece of glass the size you want, and gluing a piece of white adhesive plastic on the back side.

3

You can get to a really great place with automation by gluing together Docker/Rocket, Mesos/Kubernetes, etcd/zookeeper, etc.

4

Why would you miss all these by gluing a $5 piece of plastic on top of it?

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Hell, half the programming people do these days is just gluing APIs together then seeing if it actually works.

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There is a whole lot of maintenance, API gluing, and spec work that needs doing.

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They are gluing technologies together, so they are always going to have factories of factories, adapter of adapter, and that kind of things.

8

That's how you start gluing pieces together which have nothing in common, just so that you don't break too many tests in the process.

9

Feels like I'm just gluing together a bunch of small messes into one big mess vs.

10

Or maybe you're gluing a couple unix tools together in a fairly complicated fashion, in which case something like python is likely the right choice.

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> Why would you miss all these by gluing a $5 piece of plastic on top of it?

12

The rest of us idiots are doing straight Verilog RTL because SOC level is more about gluing a lot of different modules together with low level logic.

Quote examples

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Indeed, a "slow" scripting language gluing together fast C functions is a very productive strategy.

2

The paradox these days is "people who build applications by gluing libraries and APIs" are ending up more highly paid/rewarded/recognized than the developers who create the glue and APIs they are actually using.

3

"The rest of us idiots are doing straight Verilog RTL because SOC level is more about gluing a lot of different modules together with low level logic." That's actually good news and hopeful for people my research supports given stuff you worked on.

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Smart wizards in the open-source world and at companies like Google would do the actual engineering that made efficient hash-maps possible, and CommodityScrumDrones would staple shit together using topologies thereof, without really understanding any of the technologies they were gluing together, and probably ignorant of why these things are sometimes called "hashes" in the first place.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use gluing in a sentence?

The latter is a bit more difficult through python, but not as hard as trying to remember the syntax of and gluing together a two language workflow.

What does gluing mean?

The act of attaching something with glue.

What part of speech is gluing?

gluing is commonly used as noun.