Glue
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. Birdlime.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To join or attach something using glue. To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
Example sentence: It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
Gum
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The flesh round the teeth.any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plantsany viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plantschewing guma single piece of chewing gum
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To chew, especially of a toothless person or animalTo befoul, to complicate, to mess up. Normally used with "up".To apply an adhesive or gum toWith up, to impair the functioning of a thing or process.
Example sentence: I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.