attach vs glue

attach

verb
  • To adhere; to be attached. 

  • To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to. 

  • To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to. 

  • To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest. 

  • To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively). 

glue

verb
  • To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. 

  • To join or attach something using glue. 

noun
  • Anything that binds two things or people together. 

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

How often have the words attach and glue occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )