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[ verb ] join or attach with or as if with glue
Synonyms Examples "paste the sign on the wall" "cut and paste the sentence in the text" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911 , when he glued a piece of imitation caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas . Some time in 1912 , Picasso cut_out and folded a piece_of_paper in the shape of a guitar ; to this he glued and fitted other pieces_of_paper and four taut strings , thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture_plane . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)He ran on his plump sticks of legs , freezing now_and_again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held_on the paling photographs , all carefully placed and glued and labeled , resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be fixed as if by glue
Examples "His eyes were glued on her" Used in print (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)When carving he was charged with spontaneous energy ; too_careful or detailed studies in clay and wax would have glued him down to a mere enlarging of his model . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)There seemed to be a contemptuous purpose in the way he sat there with his eyes glued to Drexel_Street and his back in_opposition to the church behind him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
Used in print (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging_up his tools , and lumber for his workbench , sandpaper and glue and assorted nails , levels and T_squares and plumb_lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for . Related terms cement casein_glue spirit_gum fish_glue marine_glue animal_glue |
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