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  • adjective affixed with glue or paste.
  • adjective metaphorical having the attention so concentrated as to be difficult to cause a person to leave.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of glue.

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  • adjective affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste

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Examples

  • Then, with loose wood blocks, 66 and 67 to your hand, hold the glued side of the rib over the under part of your glue pot, and then rapidly get _all the parts glued_ well on to the back and end blocks where they are to be.

    Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. 1869

  • (unless there is a label glued on to it), so there is nothing to read.

    Blogbot - forsiden 2010

  • Ernie's joke is that every eye * will* remain glued to the screen due to the extremely (!!) sexy nature of that changing screen and what might be behind it.

    For todays active man 2010

  • Actual kids will remain glued to the floor of the manga aisle.

    ‘If you go for the ninja, turn to page 108.’ « Snarkmarket 2006

  • Epic Music has started distributing its review copies of forthcoming CDs to reviewers in glued-shut discmen, with glued-in headphones.

    Boing Boing: September 15, 2002 - September 21, 2002 Archives 2002

  • The question is not whether the water of truth be found, but whether it is drunk out of an orthodox bottle, with the Church's label glued firmly upon it.

    The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888

  • The USDA approves TGs, and the FDA classifies meat glues as as safe, though meat retailers are required to label glued items in butcher shops and grocery stores.

    unknown title 2011

  • Elie Magus and Remonencq made for the door, but a word glued them to the spot.

    Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • End of last week, the US justice released some of the financial forecasts aiming to evaluate the cost of the "Vista Capable" label glued on computers which were not really able to fully support or deliver all Vista functions.

    MacBytes.com 2009

  • End of last week, the US justice released some of the financial forecasts aiming to evaluate the cost of the "Vista Capable" label glued on computers which were not really able to fully support or deliver all Vista functions.

    MacBytes.com 2009

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