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cement
/səˈmɛnt/
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What does cement mean?
noun
- 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.
- The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
- Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
More meanings (8)
noun
- (figuratively) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
- The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
verb
- To affix with cement.
- To overlay or coat with cement.
- (figuratively) To unite firmly or closely.
- (figuratively) To repair.
- (figuratively) To make permanent.
proper noun
- A town in Oklahoma.
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IPA pronunciation
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The simple things are the ones most needed today if we are to surmount what divides us, and cement what unites us.
They resembled in hardness, and in the nature of the cement, the masses which may be seen daily forming on some coasts.
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All inequalities in the surface, as here represented, were then filled with cement, thus furnishing a smooth surface, which was then painted.
No doubt some imperceptible cranny, some defect in the cement, allows her to insert her ovipositor, which shoots out like a probe.
The walls are of unhewn stones, piled up without cement, and they form two circles, separated by a passage four feet wide.