CEMENT
\sɪmˈɛnt], \sɪmˈɛnt], \s_ɪ_m_ˈɛ_n_t]\
Definitions of CEMENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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something that hardens to act as adhesive material
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concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they stood on the gray cement beside the pool"
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any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
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make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship"
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bind or join with or as if with cement
By Princeton University
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something that hardens to act as adhesive material
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concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they stood on the gray cement beside the pool"
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any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
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make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship"
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bind or join with or as if with cement
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
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A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
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The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
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To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
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To unite firmly or closely.
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To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
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To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
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The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; - called also cementum.
By Oddity Software
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Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
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A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
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The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
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To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
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To unite firmly or closely.
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To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
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To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
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The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; - called also cementum.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Cementum, substantia ossea. 2. Any ground substance holding together cells or other structures. 3. In operative dentistry, zinc oxychloride or other adhesive material used in filling a tooth-cavity.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Anything that makes two bodies stick together: mortar: a bond of union.
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To unite with cement: to join firmly.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To cover with or join by cement; unite; cohere.
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A substance for joining objects by adhesion; a mortar - like substance for producing a hard, smooth, or water - proof surface.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An adhesive substance for making bodies, especially stones, cohere; bond of union; that which unites firmly.
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To unite with cement; to unite firmly or closely.
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To unite and cohere.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The substance that unites two bodies together, or the parts of a broken thing; bond of union; mortar.
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To unite by a glutinous substance; to unite firmly and closely; to cohere.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A substance chemically and physically allied to bone, investing the root, neck, and crowns of teeth.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A glutinous substance introduced into a carious tooth to prevent the access of air or other extraneous matters. Dissolve with the aid of heat. Ostermaier's Cement for the teeth is prepared of finely powdered caustic lime, thirteen parts; anhydrous phosphoric acid, twelve parts. When introduced into a carious tooth, it becomes solid in about two minutes.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The substance that unites two bodies together, or two parts of a broken thing. In dentistry, a plastic material used for filling cavities in teeth. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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