different between glue vs sellotape

English

Etymology

From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin gl?s (stem gl?t-), from Latin gl?ten. Related to clay.

Displaced native Old English l?m (“glue”) and ?el?man (“to glue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?lju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

glue (countable and uncountable, plural glues)

1. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
2. (figuratively) Anything that binds two things or people together.
3. (obsolete) Birdlime.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

glue (third-person singular simple present glues, present participle gluing or glueing, simple past and past participle glued)

1. (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.
2. (transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.

   • 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

Synonyms

• (join with glue): agglutinate, conglutinate, gum, paste
• (adhere closely): adhere, cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere

Derived terms

• screwed, glued and tattooed

Translations

Further reading

• glue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Guel, UGLE, gule, luge

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French glu.

Noun

glue

2. Alternative form of glew (“glue”).

Etymology 2

From Old English gl?wian.

Verb

glue

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

English

Etymology

From genericized trademark Sellotape, from cello(phane) +? tape. The spelling with S- was to avoid an existing trademark on the word Cellophane itself.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l?te?p/

Noun

sellotape (countable and uncountable, plural sellotapes)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Adhesive tape.

Translations

See also

• adhesive tape
• Durex
• Scotch tape
• sticky tape
• tape

Verb

sellotape (third-person singular simple present sellotapes, present participle sellotaping, simple past and past participle sellotaped)

1. (transitive, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To seal with adhesive tape.

Translations

Anagrams

• soleplate