| English Dictionary |
GLUED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
| IPA (US): |  |
Dictionary entry overview: What does glued mean?
• GLUED (adjective)
The adjective GLUED has 1 sense:
1. affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste
Familiarity information: GLUED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste
Synonyms:
glued; pasted
Context example:
pieces of pasted paper
Similar:
affixed (firmly attached)
Context examples
The jaws stopped working, the ears ceased wobbling, and though eyes remained glued on plates, each man listened greedily for the answer.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He drew, he varnished, he carpentered, he glued; he made toys for the children; he fashioned new netting-needles and pins with improvements; and if everything else was done, sat down to his large fishing-net at one corner of the room.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
"See what you have done! My cow has broken her leg, and I must take her to the mender's shop and have it glued on again. What do you mean by coming here and frightening my cow?"
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The other four men glued their eyes on their plates and chewed steadily and with thoughtful precision, their ears moving and wobbling, in time with their jaws, like the ears of so many animals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"The chicken that cries at night will not lay eggs in the morning." (Albanian proverb)
"The best to sit with in all times is a book." (Arabic proverb)
"He who kills with bullets will die by bullets." (Corsican proverb)