# cement
## English
### Alternative forms

* caement, cæment (archaic)

### Etymology

From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“I cut, hew”). Doublet of cementum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /səˈmɛnt/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Southern US) IPA: /ˈsi.mɛnt/
* Rhymes: -ɛnt
* Hyphenation: ce‧ment

### Noun

cement (countable and uncountable, plural cements)
* (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
* (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
* (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
* (figurative) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
    the cement of our love
* (anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

#### Derived terms

* asbestos cement
* cementable
* cemental
* cement arm
* cementation
* cement board
* cement car
* cement copper
* cementer
* cement hands
* cementhead
* cementite
* cementless
* cementlike
* cement mixer
* cementoclast
* cementoenamel
* cementogenic
* cementoid
* cement shoes
* cement steel
* cement together
* cement works
* ferro-cement
* ferrocement
* fibre cement
* hydraulic cement
* iron cement
* Keene's cement
* Martin's cement
* masonry cement
* noncement
* Parian cement
* Portland cement
* portland cement
* re-cement
* recement
* Roman cement
* rubber cement
* uncement
* water cement

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: أَسْمَنْت (ʔasmant)
* → Chinese:
** Mandarin: 水門汀 / 水门汀 (shuǐméntīng) (chiefly Southwestern, Northeastern, and Jianghuai)
** Wu: 水門汀 / 水门汀 ($^5$sy-men-thin)
* → Fiji Hindi: simit
* → Irish: suimint
* → Japanese: セメント (semento)
* → Kashubian: cymańt (Canada)
* → Korean: 시멘트 (simenteu)
* → Malay: simen
* → Punjabi: ਸੀਮਿੰਟ (sīmiṇṭ)
* → Swahili: simiti, sementi
* → Thai: ซีเมนต์ (sii-men)
* → Tok Pisin: simen
* → Welsh: sment

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#### See also

* concrete

### Verb

cement (third-person singular simple present cements, present participle cementing, simple past and past participle cemented)
* (transitive) To affix with cement.
* (transitive) To overlay or coat with cement.
    to cement a cellar floor
* (transitive, figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
** c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:For they have entertained cause enough To draw their swords: but how the fear of us May cement their divisions and bind up The petty difference, we yet not know.
** 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.
* (figuratively) To make permanent.
** 1758, David Hume, “Essay XXII. Of Polygamy and Divorces.”, in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, new edition, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 115:But friendſhip is a calm and ſedate affection, conducted by reaſon and cemented by habit; ſpringing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations; without jealouſies or fears; and without thoſe feveriſh fits of heat and cold, which cauſe ſuch an agreeable torment in the amorous paſſion.
** 2016 March 27, Daniel Taylor, “Eric Dier seals England’s stunning comeback against Germany”, in The Guardian‎, London, archived from the original on 22 April 2016:[Dele] Alli’s ability to break forward from midfield was a prominent feature and the 19-year-old must have gone a long way to cementing his place in the team.
** 2024 February 15, Fani Willis, 38:21 from the start, in See Fani Willis' entire defiant testimony in stunning courtroom moment‎, MSNBC, archived from the original on February 16, 2024:Me and Mr. Wade, we are good friends. My respect for him has grown over these seven weeks of attacks. We are very good friends. I think but for these attacks, it would have been a friendship that, as life goes, we would have stopped having. I think that you have cemented that we'll be friends to the day we die.

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## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡sɛmɛnt]

### Noun

cement m inan
* cement

#### Related terms

* cementárna
* cementářský

### Further reading

* “cement”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “cement”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Noun

cement c
* cement

#### Related terms

* cementblandar

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch ciment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /səˈmɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ce‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

cement n (uncountable)
* cement (powder, paste)

#### Derived terms

* cementmolen
* cementpoeder
* cementtegel
* cementvloer
* cementwater
* cementzak
* metselcement

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: sement
* → Caribbean Hindustani: samenti
* → Caribbean Javanese: semèn
* → Indonesian: semen
* → Papiamentu: semènt, samènt
* → West Frisian: semint

## Middle English
### Noun

cement
* Alternative form of syment

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Zement, from late Middle High German cēment, from earlier zīment, zīmente, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡sɛ.mɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛmɛnt
* Syllabification: ce‧ment

### Noun

cement m inan
* cement (powdered substance)
* cement (paste-like substance)

#### Derived terms

* azbestocementowy
* cementowy
* azbestocement
* cementować impf

### Further reading

* cement in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* cement in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cément.

### Noun

cement n (plural cementuri)
* cementum

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Zement, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedo (“I cut, hew”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡sěment/
* Hyphenation: ce‧ment

### Noun

cèment m (Cyrillic spelling цѐмент)
* cement

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

cement c
* cement

#### Related terms

* cementblandare