Glue vs. Formica — What's the Difference?

A strong liquid adhesive obtained by boiling collagenous animal parts such as bones, hides, and hooves into hard gelatin and then adding water.

Formica is a genus of ants of the family Formicidae, commonly known as wood ants, mound ants, thatching ants, and field ants. Formica is the type genus of the Formicidae, and of the subfamily Formicinae.

Any of various similar adhesives, such as paste, mucilage, or epoxy.

A heat-resistant laminate material used to veneer countertops.

An adhesive force or factor

A Linnæan genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.

To stick, fasten, or cause to adhere

A thermosetting plastic material composed of melamine resin, having good heat and chemical resistance, and commonly used as the surface layer in laminated sheets employed as coverings for counter tops, walls, or furniture.

To cause to be focused on or directed at something

Any of various plastic laminates containing melamine

A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

Type genus of the Formicidae

(figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

(transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.

A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.

To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.

Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

Join or attach with or as if with glue;

Be fixed as if by glue;