cement

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See also: Cement and cément

English

WOTD – 17 May 2016
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Workers in Iraq using a cement mixer to make cement (sense 2)
Bags of cement (sense 1) used for building construction in Tunisia
Footprints and graffiti in freshly laid cement (sense 2) in London, United Kingdom

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“I cut, hew”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cement (countable and uncountable, plural cements)

  1. (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp, London, New York, NY.: Cassell, →OCLC, →OL:
      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, or the rock-like substance (concrete) that forms when it dries.
  3. (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
  4. (figurative) A 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

Descendants

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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 floor
  3. (transitive, figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 1, [1]
      For they have entertained cause enough
      To draw their swords: but how the fear of us
      May cement their divisions and bind up
      The petty difference, we yet not know.
    • 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:
      Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.
  4. (figuratively) To make permanent.
    • 1758, David Hume, “Essay XXII. Of Polygamy and Divorces.”, in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, new edition, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 115:
      But friendſhip is a calm and ſedate affection, conducted by reaſon and cemented by habit; ſpringing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations; without jealouſies or fears; and without thoſe feveriſh fits of heat and cold, which cauſe ſuch an agreeable torment in the amorous paſſion.
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Czech

Noun

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  1. cement

Danish

Noun

cement c

  1. cement

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Middle English

Noun

cement

  1. Alternative form of syment

Polish

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Pronunciation

Noun

cement m inan

  1. cement

Declension

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

Derived terms

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

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

Swedish

Noun

cement c

  1. cement

Declension

Declension of cement 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative cement cementen — —
Genitive cements cementens — —

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