What's the difference between gluey and sticky?

Gluey


Definition:

  • (a.) Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The formation of aldolization products or polymers and of gluey flavour compounds modified the character of flavour and confused less experienced judges.
  • (2) It has a metallic, pungently sweaty kick to it, as if someone has absorbed the fluids of a gym changing-room floor into a lump of gluey cheese-like matter.
  • (3) It does the same to most of the gluey, plastic, molten-cheese-smeared, iceberg-lettuce-bedded monstrosities that pass for Tex Mex in the US as well.
  • (4) And indeed, Pavid and I were still pretty close friends – we sat next to each other in class, and he would show me his gluey hands, and I would repeat jokes from 'Allo 'Allo, pretending that I'd made them up myself.
  • (5) Singing it can sometimes feel like wallowing in a world of gluey nostalgia.
  • (6) It only softens up again with prolonged cooking at low temperatures, which breaks down the collagen and gives the succulent, almost gluey, soft texture common to stews and braised dishes.
  • (7) Deeply tanned and well-seasoned, it has a lovely savoury edge to it but it is a shade too thick and, consequently, a bit undercooked and gluey directly beneath that crisp outer shell.
  • (8) In an area larger than a football pitch, 40,000 cubic metres of gluey, hard-packed clay has had to be removed with diggers in order to access the bodies.

Sticky


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
  • (2) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
  • (3) Most of the drugs tested were designed to target the accumulation of sticky plaques, called beta-amyloids.
  • (4) Among junior high school students the results suggested that consciousness about and interest in such factors as gingival bleeding, bad breath and sticky feeling in the mouth caused better dental health behavior.
  • (5) In addition, the co-aligned configuration of the ends of the sex-chromosome axes of this species and the lack of silver-stainable threads or filaments connecting them suggest the existence of two mechanisms for association of the sex chromosomes during prophase I and metaphase I: attachment of the ends of both sex chromosome axes to the nuclear envelope and heterochromatin "stickiness."
  • (6) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
  • (7) The onions are easy to store and to handle, and the root tip cells constitute a convenient system for macroscopic (growth, EC50 values) as well as for microscopic parameters (c-mitosis, stickiness, chromosome breaks).
  • (8) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.
  • (9) I like your advice about having a sticky note on the phone, saying: "Lunches are better for me."
  • (10) Remnants of the highly viscous and sticky contrast medium that remain attached to the vascular wall complicate the technical procedure of anastomosing.
  • (11) Illustration: Virtual Design Agency As the original sketches were made from sticky tape, the corners of the letters in the final design are missing.
  • (12) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
  • (13) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
  • (14) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (15) Now he has tipped the prime minister and the chancellor into the sticky stuff.
  • (16) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
  • (17) This "sticky" interpersonal style may be particularly common in TLE patients with a left sided temporal lobe seizure focus.
  • (18) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
  • (19) Macroscopic examination of the 97 explanted prostheses provided information on their integrity (38.1% of prostheses ruptured), gel differentiation (24.7%), sticky surfaces (26.8%), surface deposits (33%), memory folds (54.6%), and Dacron fixation patches (20.6%).
  • (20) It has been shown that sulfinpyrazone is able to interfere with the dynamic interaction between sticky Walker-256-carcinosarcoma cells and the vascular endothelium.

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