cement

English

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Alternative forms

• cæment (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈmɛnt/

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Noun

cement (countable and uncountable, plural cements)

1. (uncountable) A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, The Mirror and the Lamp:

     In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

2. (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
3. (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive properties.
4. (figuratively) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.

   the cement of our love

5. (anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

Derived terms

• Keene's cement
• masonry cement
• Portland cement

Translations

a powdered substance

• Afrikaans: sement
• Albanian: çimento (sq)
• Arabic: أسمنت m ('ásmant)

  Egyptian Arabic: اسمنت m (esmant, asmant)

• Armenian: ցեմենտ (cʿement)
• Bulgarian: цимент m (cimént)
• Catalan: ciment
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水泥 (zh) (shuǐní)

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

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

  Sorani: چه‌مه‌نتۆ

• Latin: caementum
• Malay: simen
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سیمان (fa) (simân)
• Polish: cement (pl) m
• Portuguese: cimento (pt) m
• Romanian: ciment (ro)
• Russian: цемент (ru) m (cem'ént)
• Serbo-Croatian: cement m
• Spanish: cemento (es) m
• Swahili: simiti (sw)
• Tamil: சிமிட்டி (ta) (cimiṭṭi), பைஞ்சுதை (ta) (paiñcutai)
• Turkish: çimento (tr)
• Vietnamese: xi măng (vi)
• Welsh: sment m

the paste-like substance

• Arabic: أسمنت m ('ásmant)
• Armenian: ցեմենտ (cʿement)
• Bulgarian: цимент m (ciment)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水泥 (zh) (shuǐní)

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

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

  Sorani: چه‌مه‌نتۆ

• Latin: caementum
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: cement (pl) m
• Portuguese: cimento (pt) m
• Russian: цемент (ru) m (cem'ént)
• Serbo-Croatian: cement m
• Spanish: pegamento (es)
• Swahili: simiti (sw)
• Vietnamese: xi măng (vi)
• Welsh: sment m

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

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: cemento
• 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. (transitive) To affix with cement.
2. (transitive) To overlay or coat with cement.

   to cement a cellar bottom

3. (transitive, figuratively) To unite firmly or closely.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

4. (figuratively) To make permanent.
   • "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 (cimentiram)
• Danish: cementere
• German: zementieren (de)
• Irish: stroighnigh, suimintigh, táthaigh
• Italian: cementare

• Russian: цементировать (ru) impf (cem'entírovat')
• Swahili: simiti (sw)
• Welsh: smentio
• Yiddish: צוקלעפּן (tsuklepn)

to make permanent

• Danish: cementere
• German: zementieren (de)
• Italian: cementare, consolidare

• Swahili: simiti (sw)
• Welsh: cadarnhau (cy), cryfhau (cy)

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Translations to be checked

• French: cimenter (fr)
• Ido: cementagar
• Interlingua: cementar

• Portuguese: cimentar
• Spanish: cementar
• Volapük: zämön

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Czech

Noun

cement m

1. cement

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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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^(key): /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