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cement

noun

  1. chemical precipitate between grains in a rock
  2. hydraulic binder used in the composition of mortar and concrete
  3. any uniting medium or substance
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verb

  1. to unite solid bodies with cement
  2. to unite (two things)
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /səˈmɛnt/ / /ˈsi.mɛnt/

name

Etymology: Named for its early cement industry.

  1. A town in Oklahoma.

noun

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.

  1. 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.

    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].

  2. The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
  3. Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
  4. A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.

    the cement of our love

  5. The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

verb

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.

  1. To affix with cement.
  2. To overlay or coat with cement.

    to cement a cellar floor

  3. To unite firmly or closely.

    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.

  4. To make permanent.

    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.

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