cement
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”). Doublet of cementum.
Inflected forms:
form: cements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cæment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cements
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cementing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cemented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cemented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: caement
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cæment
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Indigenous bacteria, which naturally exist in specific environments, are being increasingly utilized in self-healing cement to promote calcite precipitation, a process that fills cracks and restores the material’s structural integrity [4,5].
gloss: The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the cement of our love
gloss: The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To affix with cement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To overlay or coat with cement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to cement a cellar floor
gloss: To unite firmly or closely.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To make permanent.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
[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.
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.
Related words: concrete
Derived words: asbestos cement
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ferrocement
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fibre cement
hydraulic cement
iron cement
Keene's cement
Martin's cement
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noncement
Parian cement
Portland cement
portland cement
re-cement
recement
Roman cement
rubber cement
uncement
water cement
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