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Cement
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- 1 A town in Oklahoma.
- 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. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth wordnet
- 3 The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries. uncountable
- 4 something that hardens to act as adhesive material wordnet
- 5 Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout. uncountable
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- 6 a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar wordnet
- 7 A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"the cement of our love"
- 8 concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement wordnet
- 9 The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum. countable, uncountable
- 10 any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth wordnet
- 1 To affix with cement. transitive
- 2 make fast as if with cement wordnet
- 3 To overlay or coat with cement. transitive
"to cement a cellar floor"
- 4 bind or join with or as if with cement wordnet
- 5 To unite firmly or closely. figuratively, transitive
"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."
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- 6 cover or coat with cement wordnet
- 7 To make permanent. figuratively
"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."
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.
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.
Named for its early cement industry.
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