cement
ce·ment (sə ment′)
noun
- a powdered substance made of burned lime and clay, mixed with water and sand to make mortar or with water, sand, and gravel to make concrete: the mixture hardens when it dries
- concrete: a loose usage
- any soft substance that fastens things together firmly when it hardens, as glue
- anything that joins together or unites; bond
- cementum
- the fine-grained material that binds together the larger constituents in many kinds of sedimentary or clastic rock
- Dentistry a cementlike substance used to fill cavities, set crowns, etc.
- Metallurgy a dust or powder, as of charcoal or sand, or a finely divided metal, used in cementation
Etymology: ME & OFr ciment < L caementum, rough stone, chippings < *caedimentum < caedere, to cut down: see -cide
transitive verb
- to join or unite with or as with cement
- to cover with cement
intransitive verb
to become cemented
cement
n.
Object
- carbide: Hard Metals A group of materials more commonly known as cemented carbides.
- prosthesis: In contrast, the patient with a cemented prosthesis is typically permitted to place weight on the limb within a few days of surgery.
- friendship: For some, membership in a voluntary association has resulted in or cemented lifelong friendships.
- alliance: As to the left SRs, they did cement an uneasy alliance with the Bolsheviks.
Converse of object
- profil: Marley Eternit also manufacture a comprehensive range of rainwater goods to complement their range of fiber cement profiled sheeting.
- inject: Vertebroplasty involves injecting special cement into the spine to strengthen it and reduce pain.
Adjective modifier
- acrylic: Most artificial joints ( prostheses ) are fixed into the bone with acrylic cement.
- wet: Any holes in your wet suit can be fixed using commercial wet suit cement.
Modifies a noun
- mixer: A moment later, the cement mixer crashes to the ground in the spot where she was standing.
- kiln: Air pollution is also a major concern with lime and cement kilns.
- mortar: Pointing is sometimes carried out in cement mortar rather than the original lime mortar.
- grout: For crack width between 1.0 - 3.0 mm cement grout can be injected instead of epoxy resins.
- slurry: The cement slurry is heavier than the spacer, which is heavier than the wash.
- sheeting: If you are taking down a shed or garage containing asbestos cement sheeting do not break up large sheets but keep them whole.
Noun used with modifier
- portland: And while his invention, portland cement, is seldom celebrated in the same breath as steam power or the.. .
- asbestos: Asbestos Cement One of the most common uses of asbestos in the home is in asbestos cement products.
- alumina: Made from clay, ceramics or refractory concrete consisting of pumice or kiln burnt aggregate bonded with high alumina cement.
- calcite: Cathodoluminescence micrograph of zoned calcite cement in thin section, Pwll y Cwm Oolite, Lower Carboniferous, Baltic Quarry, South Wales.
- fiber: Moisture content When new, fiber cement sheeting has a relatively high moisture content.
- quartz: Where there is plenty of quartz cement it produces hard sandstones and conglomerates.
No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.
Wildness and silence disappeared fromthe countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.
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