Cement meaning

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Cement means to join together or cover with a binding agent, particularly a substance made of burned lime, clay, sand and water.

An example of cement is to fix a hole in the sidewalk.

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The definition of cement is anything that binds, particularly a substance made of burned lime, clay, sand and water to make mortar or sand, water and gravel to make concrete.

An example of cement is the material used for a foundation of a house.

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Something that serves to bind or unite.
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A chemically precipitated substance that binds particles of clastic rocks.
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A substance used for filling cavities or anchoring crowns, inlays, or other restorations.
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Any soft substance that fastens things together firmly when it hardens, as glue.
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A substance that hardens to act as an adhesive; glue.
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To bind with or as if with cement.
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To cover or coat with cement.
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To become cemented.
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Anything that joins together or unites; bond.
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The fine-grained material that binds together the larger constituents in many kinds of sedimentary or clastic rock.
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A cementlike substance used to fill cavities, set crowns, etc.
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A dust or powder, as of charcoal or sand, or a finely divided metal, used in cementation.
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To join or unite with or as with cement.
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To cover with cement.
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To establish firmly or make stronger.

To cement a friendship.

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A substance used for filling cavities or anchoring crowns, inlays, or other restorations.
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(uncountable) A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
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(uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
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(uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive properties.
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(figuratively) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.

The cement of our love.

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(anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
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To affix with cement.
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To overlay or coat with cement.

To cement a cellar bottom.

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(figuratively) To unite firmly or closely.

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(figuratively) To make permanent.
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  • Firmly settled or determined; unalterable:.
    The administration's position on taxes was set in cement despite the unfavorable public response.
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Origin of cement

  • Middle English from Old French ciment from Latin caementum rough-cut stone, rubble used in making concrete from caedere to cut kaə-id- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedo (“I cut, hew”).
    From Wiktionary

Cement Sentence Examples

  • I poured cement in the hole he dug under the hen house.

  • 3, d), softer vasodentine (v) and cement (c).

  • Their lovemaking seemed to cement what was between them.

  • There are cement and shipbuilding works.

  • But bodily defect is largely a result of evil circumstances, in the prevention of which the physician is not unsuccessfully engaged, and the growth of sympathy means a stronger cement of the social structure.

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