cement

English

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Alternative forms

• cæment (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedo (“I cut, hew”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

cement (plural cements)

1. (uncountable) A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
2. (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
3. (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive properties.
4. (countable) A particular type or brand of cement.

Derived terms

• Keene's cement
• masonry cement
• Portland cement

Translations

a powdered substance

• Afrikaans: sement (af)
• Albanian: çimento (sq)
• Arabic: أسمنت (ar) ('ásmant) m
• Armenian: ցեմենտ (hy) (c’ement) 
• Bulgarian: цимент (bg) (cimént) m 
• Catalan: ciment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水泥 (cmn) (shuǐní)

• Czech: cement (cs) m
• Danish: cement (da)
• Dutch: cement (nl) n
• Estonian: tsement (et)
• Faroese: sement (fo) n
• Finnish: sementti (fi)
• French: ciment (fr)
• Galician: cemento (gl)
• German: Zement (de) m
• Greek: τσιμέντο (el) n (tsiménto)
• Indonesian: semen (id)

• Irish: stroighin (ga) f
• Italian: cemento (it) m
• Japanese: セメント (ja) (semento)
• Jèrriais: chînment m
• Korean: 시멘트 (ko) (simaeteu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چه‌مه‌نتۆ (ku)

• Latin: caementum (la)
• Malay: simen (ms)
• Persian: سیمان (fa) (simân)
• Polish: cement (pl) m
• Portuguese: cimento (pt) m
• Romanian: ciment (ro)
• Russian: цемент (ru) (cem'ént) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: cement (sh) m
• Spanish: cemento (es) m
• Swahili: simiti (sw)
• Turkish: çimento (tr)
• Vietnamese: xi măng (vi)

the paste-like substance

• Arabic: أسمنت (ar) ('ásmant) m
• Armenian: ցեմենտ (hy) (c’ement) 
• Bulgarian: цимент (bg) m (ciment)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水泥 (cmn) (shuǐní)

• Czech: cement (cs) m
• Danish: cement (da)
• Dutch: cement (nl) n
• Faroese: sement (fo) n
• Finnish: sementti (fi)
• French: ciment (fr) m
• German: Zement (de) m
• Indonesian: semen (id)
• Irish: stroighin (ga) f

• Italian: adesivo (it)
• Japanese: セメント (ja) (semento)
• Jèrriais: chînment m
• Korean: 시멘트 (ko) (simaeteu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چه‌مه‌نتۆ (ku)

• Latin: caementum (la)
• Polish: cement (pl) m
• Portuguese: cimento (pt) m
• Russian: цемент (ru) (cem'ént) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: cement (sh) m
• Spanish: pegamento (es)
• Swahili: simiti (sw)
• Vietnamese: xi măng (vi)

any material with strong adhesive properties

• Finnish: liima (fi)
• French: colle (fr) f, adhésif (fr) m
• German: Zement (de) m
• Italian: adesivo (it)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چه‌مه‌نتۆ (ku)

• Portuguese: cimento (pt) m
• Spanish: pegamento (es)
• Swahili: simiti (sw)

a particular type or brand of cement

• Swahili: simiti (sw)

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• Interlingua: cemento (ia)
• Ido: cemento (io)
• Volapük: zäm (vo)

See also

• concrete

Verb

cement (third-person singular simple present cements, present participle cementing, simple past and past participle cemented)

1. To affix with cement.
2. (figuratively) To ensure an outcome.
   • "But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit;" David Hume, http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=704&chapter=137514&layout=html&Itemid=27

Translations

to affix with cement

• Bulgarian: циментирам (bg) (cimentiram)
• Danish: cementere (da)
• German: zementieren (de)
• Irish: stroighnigh (ga), suimintigh (ga), táthaigh (ga)

• Italian: cementare (it)
• Russian: цементировать (ru) (cem'entírovat')  impf.
• Swahili: simiti (sw)
• Yiddish: צוקלעפּן (yi) (tsuklepn)

to ensure an outcome

• Danish: cementere (da)
• German: zementieren (de)

• Italian: cementare (it), consolidare (it)
• Swahili: simiti (sw)

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• French: cimenter (fr)
• Interlingua: cementar (ia)

• Portuguese: cimentar (pt)
• Spanish: cementar (es)
• Volapük: zämön

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Czech

Noun

cement m

1. cement

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Polish

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Noun

cement m

1. cement

Declension

    declension of cement

	singular only
nominative	cement
genitive	cementu
dative	cementowi
accusative	cement
instrumental	cementem
locative	cemencie
vocative	cemencie

Derived terms

• cementowy
• cementować

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tsěment/
• Hyphenation: ce‧ment

Noun

cèment m (Cyrillic spelling цѐмент)

1. cement

Declension

    declension of cement

	singular
nominative	cement
genitive	cementa
dative	cementu
accusative	cement
vocative	cemente
locative	cementu
instrumental	cementom

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Swedish

Noun

cement c

1. cement

Declension

Declension of cement

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	cement	cementen
genitive	cements	cementens

Related terms

• cementblandare